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UConn - Iowa Postgame Thread

Viet Vet said:
The moving screen call on Edwards was correct. We lost, fair and square.
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Whether it was “correct” or not. The point is that’s just not a call you make with 4 seconds left in a final four game…if it was an egregious offensive foul that’s one thing. Even you should be able to admit that the call was a stretch in the first place and then when you put it in the context of the game/circumstances it was a ridiculous call to make…it happens, it is what it is. And to be frank even before this game tipped off I had SC soundly beating UConn if they did make it through. But all that being said that was just a classic example of a ref unnecessarily injecting themselves into a high stakes game for absolutely no reason. And quite frankly it makes people not want to watch the sport, it ruins it for people.
 
BBallF said:
She gave it back to Nika. I don't understand the play. Even if she gets it back she has only a few seconds. Give the ball to Jimmy Chitwood on the inbounds. This isn't rocket science.
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I can't see the replay - - I hated the the play call too. Too much. with that said -- if Paige were to hve caught teh ball there would have bene slightly over 3 seoconds left.

Was there any possibility that she could have split defense and drove once catching the pass or does it look like she would have been fading sideways / right?

And if I am not mistaken the Duke game he ran a play to give the ball toPaige at the top to allow her to makea move, didn't he? Or was there no timeout and Paige just made the play?
 
Rdkid said:
I read just fine professor. Your take that we “let” Iowa stay in the game is ignorant. They are a 1 seed for a reason. We were a three seed for a reason - a team that by sheer grit played their way into the Final 4. Did you watch either team this year?
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I watched every game, genius. 98% of your posts are on the men's board so please don't pretend like you have a clue about the women's team.

UConn did let Iowa hang in there and Geno himself all but said so when interviewed before the 2nd quarter.
 
GREAT season, Huskies! I really did not expect you guys to even get this far based off of your adversity this season. What a season. You'll be back in the Final Four next season.

UConn played extremely tough tonight and thank you for the Clark gameplan. Geno is the best at finding the chink in the armor. For those of you Huskies that may be rooting for the Gamecocks on Sunday, we will do our best to try to take a little bit of your gameplan and bring it home.
 
What a roller coaster of a season. From extreme high initial expectations, with a mostly healthy roster. To bruising disappointment as we lost important player after important player. To the end of the season into the postseason, where it looked like UConn had learned to compensate as well as they could for their roster deficiencies, and put on a nice streak of tough winning.

The FF was 1-2 games further than I saw them going, months ago. And they were a bucket from going even further.

Like most others here, I just wish that the play had lived or died in the hands of the players, of both teams. And not with a referee call that was probably technically correct, but never called in the vast majority of high profile games in the closing seconds with the game on the line.
 
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jaydee602 said:
Geno just summed it up perfectly:
"There's probably an illegal screen call that you could make on every single possession. I just know that there were three or four of them called on us and I don't think there were any called on them."
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He could've easily just given Paige the ball and let her make a play instead of messing with a screen. Despite all his talk about Paige being the best player he decided she needed help making a winning play. Iowa would have never set a screen for Clark.
 
Beaner said:
So, if the ref doesn’t make that call and Paige hits the game-winner, is the story the missed moving screen by Edwards? No? Exactly.
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Probably not the story because if oyu start making comments about "should have been called," then you certainly could point to a short time earlier the Clark push-off in the lane, couldn't you? . . . Exactly.
 
I give AE a ton of credit for keeping her composure in the press conference when being asked repeatedly about the call. The kid sounds like she has 10 lbs of concrete in her sinuses because someone smashed her nose on a no-call. And with less than 10 seconds in a national semi final she gets called for that ticky tack trash. From now on, whenever I feel my temper begin to boil, I will think of Aaliyah and gain strength from her example.
 
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Gurleyman said:
Ugh. Watched it again.

Most frustrating part about that last play is that Aaliyah set a great FIRST screen. Marshall just gets wiped out and has a hard time fighting over it, and Paige comes to the three-point line wide open … if that was the play. But since that was the decoy/misdirection, that screen working that well actually blew the play up because Bueckers came back into traffic, where Marshall was waiting.

This screen cap Marshall is just finally getting around Edwards and Paige isn’t even moving hard - she’s just sorta loafing, waiting to cut back to the sideline as the play was designed. If she was cutting hard and Muhl was looking to pass, she’d have had Iowa in trouble.

Our decoy screen was probably the best screen we set for her all night.
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Looking at those replays, I'm wondering if Paige was actually going to look for a pass to Edwards under the basket. Edwards turned back toward the basket and looked like she was going to streak to the hoop. Stuelke rushed out toward Paige to take over the defensive load. Possibly leaving an open Aaliyah under the basket, if Paige got the pass right.
 
hoophuskee said:
Probably not the story because if oyu start making comments about "should have been called," then you certainly could point to a short time earlier the Clark push-off in the lane, couldn't you? . . . Exactly.
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Was this when she forearmed KK and made a shot, or a different pitiful call?
 
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Sluconn Husky said:
He could've easily just given Paige the ball and let her make a play instead of messing with a screen. Despite all his talk about Paige being the best player he decided she needed help making a winning play. Iowa would have never set a screen for Clark.
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I agree with most of your comments and I agree the play was too convuluted. But Clark is more of a one-on-one player. Paige does need picks more. How often is Paige ispalted in the manner Clark is? SO, why not just give Paige the ball after one pass in which she would be coming "downhill" at a defender with the option to pick and roll or take a pull-up?

But I agree - not a good call - I jus thinktoo much dribbling wiht Nika toward the corner.
 
iri10 said:
Looking at those replays, I'm wondering if Paige was actually going to look for a pass to Edwards under the basket. Edwards turned back toward the basket and looked like she was going to streak to the hoop. Stuelke rushed out toward Paige to take over the defensive load. Possibly leaving an open Aaliyah under the basket, if Paige got the pass right.
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I was asking something similar with another poster. I had also thought about Aaliyah streaking - but did it really look like she was going to roll toward the basket?
 
hoophuskee said:
I agree with most of your comments and I agree the play was too convuluted. But Clark is more of a one-on-one player. Paige does need picks more. How often is Paige ispalted in the manner Clark is? SO, why not just give Paige the ball after one pass in which she would be coming "downhill" at a defender with the option to pick and roll or take a pull-up?

But I agree - not a good call - I jus thinktoo much dribbling wiht Nika toward the corner.
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There are a million moving parts to that double-screen. So many things can go wrong and did. If they wanted to run a screen they could've done so off her dribble. Let her try to find the midrange. Just made no sense and is a lack of trust in Paige's ability to make a winning play, imo.
 
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Sluconn Husky said:
There are a million moving parts to that double-screen. So many things can go wrong and did. If they wanted to run a screen they could've done so off her dribble. Let her try to find the midrange. Just made no sense and is a lack of trust in Paige's ability to make a winning play, imo.
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I'm with you. I dislked the play.
 
iri10 said:
We'll probably never know 100%, because the whistle was blown before she could get a good head of steam. But...maybe? A side view:

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You know what- she was moving toward the basket.
 
"We shot four free throws tonight, in a game that was played like that. So either Iowa plays absolutely zero defense, which isn't true, or we shot four free throws. We're not aggressive enough, I guess, getting to the rim." - Geno Auriemma
 
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All of the FF losses have always hurt, but at least if you’re beat with a last second miracle shot then that’s just the will of the basketball gods. Those kind of losses make me sad. But this kind of loss just makes me angry. It would be one thing if UConn tried for a shot and missed. I can live with that. But to call a foul with seconds left. It just makes me sick.

The sun will rise in the morning no matter what, but mostly I just feel so bad for the players.
 
Viet Vet said:
The moving screen call on Edwards was correct. We lost, fair and square.
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Connecticut didn't really play well enough to win, but still almost pulled off a miracle finish.

You absolutely cannot call that foul in that situation unless it was utterly blatant. And it wasn't. There are probably five or ten moving screens a game at least as bad as that which are not called.
 
Think the end of game foul call on Edwards was BS, and know what I saw, Geno coached a master game. I feel so bad for UConn fans that the ref decided to end the game on that call. Sucked. Geno>>>>>Bluder, it’s over an hour now and I am still upset with that BS call at the end.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
I watched every game, genius. 98% of your posts are on the men's board so please don't pretend like you have a clue about the women's team.

UConn did let Iowa hang in there and Geno himself all but said so when interviewed before the 2nd quarter.
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Sure, we were supposed to make a few more midrange j’s, have a few less turnovers and win going away. Stand behind your OP and blame away when what we always HOPED would be a one possession game. And BTW, I’m sure you thought in November we were FF material.
 
maple said:
All of the FF losses have always hurt, but at least if you’re beat with a last second miracle shot then that’s just the will of the basketball gods. Those kind of losses make me sad. But this kind of loss just makes me angry. It would be one thing if UConn tried for a shot and missed. I can live with that. But to call a foul with seconds left. It just makes me sick.

The sun will rise in the morning no matter what, but mostly I just feel so bad for the players.
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It was beyond crazy that ref made that call at that moment of the game….still cannot believe it.
 
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