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Message: [QUOTE="jazz, post: 4135208, member: 10942"] 1st Qtr: EW was spectacular. Good defense, even when she got beat, the player had to really work for it. She also showed some really good offense and terrific passing. She had a TO and an airball, but overall, she was really good. Had to set up the offense, get her teammates involved, score and play defense. Sounds like what is expected out of PB. We had 4 airballs and a brick or two in the Q1…looked like a team trying to figure out how to score without PB to rely on. In the first half Ono was battling, and I think she might have been fouled a couple times. I really enjoyed this game. It is fun to watch UCONN BB without the expectation of a win most every game by 20. It is not as pretty as it has been in the past, but I am so happy for this team and how hard they compete and doing the best they can under the circumstances. Maybe UCLA isn’t a very good team, but you can’t control who you play. You just have to give it your all and see where the chips fall. This team rose to the occasion in this game. They hustled all day…id say it was inspirational. Losing half your offensive production and still putting up 71 in the second game post PB is something to be proud of. This is certainly an improvement over the G-tech game. Down 28-17 with 5:20 to go in the half. Coming off a terrible loss to G-tech. Lots of doubters out there and one of them is their own coach, who says they will not get any better throughout the year. How do they respond?? It wasn’t perfect and they had some missed opps and a few TOs sprinkled in there, but at the end of the half, they had closed that gap to 2 pts. 11-2 run….pretty good and nice improvement. They took a punch in the mouth and bounced back. Then they came out in the third and kept battling and battling. Up by 14 at one point - 25 point turnaround. Back to back bad calls…how was that not a foul committed against EW. Then CW gets the charge but its not called. Terrible. DJ had a full game in the 4th alone. I think she may have had a double double in one quarter…or at least close to it. She was spectacular, except at the line…. Ono played really well. I think she feels comfortable taking the 15 plus foot jumper again. Funny how she refused to do that in the SC game. Was GA telling her not to do so…. EW had possibly her best game at Uconn, until she kept missing FTs at the end. Can’t figure that out. Maybe she was gassed. Excluding DJ and Ono, I think we shot 15 for 48…not good. But I see more and more from CD. She hasn’t put it together quite yet, but it’s coming. I worry about her ability to defend quickness on the one hand and then power on the other. I don’t think she has an answer for either at this point. DJ and Ono seem to play well together. Either DJ is hard to box or UCLA forgot the meaning of boxing out. Either way, I’ll take it. GA gave CW an earful…He doesn’t do that often to her. She still can’t shoot well enough from outside and there are times she forces things (which doesn’t bother me at this point), but she is a handful for a team to guard. Also, she has been really active on defense the last two games. As many of you know, I have never been a fan of CW’s defense. She falls asleep too often. But, the last two games, she has been really good and active! 2 days and big improvement! Can’t wait until the next game to see how much better they get. They actually get some practices in now as well to iron some thing out.... I like this team, they are my team (and yours)..Go Uconn!! [/QUOTE]

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