Well in all fairness to our fine colleague
@CocoHusky I need to opine that I also watched UCLA barely beat a "mediocre" St John's team yesterday afternoon. The issue that keeps being touted especially by the announcers at Gulf Coast Showcase was UCLA only had 8 healthy bodies which is true but all also sort of bunk. Tight rotations only consist of 7-8 players so the real issue is and was this UCLA team was not anywhere near the conditioning to handle 120 minutes of basketball over 3 consecutive days. The Bruins best healthy player by far is Ilmar'l Thomas, who transferred from Cincinnati to UCLA this year to improve her stock for the WNBA draft. Simply put, she logged 22, 30 and 33 minutes but was gassed on many series of plays. The first two sets of minutes were losses. She has to get in better shape if she wants to run up and down the floor and be effective throughout the whole game. She's got great offensive prowess and a nice outside shot as well. That said, pretty much all of the Bruins could use more conditioning and that has to be on the coach and her staff. There is no excuse for that when you are a "supposed" top 30 program. Last is her constant halftime quotes of "we've got to do a better job on the defensive end"...which was complete rubbish as the 3 defensive scores were 69-66-65 and her comments regardless of the actual game were too trite like Holly Warlick...yikes!
Coco has every right to call into question Cori Close's oversight on x's/o's, player usage and conditioning as all are highly suspect that gets masked by having highly skilled raw talent. It is like taking Kobe beef and grounding into burger patty and saying taste how good is this burger? Yeah, it's good but it WAS a steak that should have been phenomenal, instead of just a good burger...SMH
We'll have to go with that until a team steps up and proves they're vulnerable by handing them a loss. 
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It looks like UConn is NOT the only top 10 ranked team to suffer woe. At least we lost to the #1 team in the country.
