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Why on god's green earth do we have two centers in the game with neither of them posting up on a consistent basis?
 
RadyLady said:
Agreed. That's why I asked where I was....thought it was another board.....
Rutgers games are always a grind. We are always out of our offensive flow because of the way Rutgers defends. There are some good things happening in the game, and we are winning.
Now I am going to go and refresh my cocktail at the next time out
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I agree.. I know I was a little critical on Monday night, but this is getting to be a little too much to take.. How spoiled are we, huh?
 
Keep pushing! Faris for Two!

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Be interesting to see minutes played for Faris tonite - It seems less minutes even with Doty on the bench
 
Kelly should have taken the ball to the basket instead of passing to Tiff. Also Tiff didn't pass the ball back to Kelly who was wide open in the corner for a couple of seconds. No Rutgers player was around her.
 
Kait14 said:
I agree.. I know I was a little critical on Monday night, but this is getting to be a little too much to take.. How spoiled are we, huh?
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It is hard to participate when all you see are complaints on the board, and no one seeing anything positive. We are going to win this game. The next game should be very good and the game I am interested in - avenging the loss to St Johns. I will cheer my Huskies on, good or bad.
 
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RadyLady said:
It is hard to participate when all you see are complaints on the board, and no one seeing anything positive. We are going to win this game. The next game should be very good and the game I am interested in - avenging the loss to St Johns. I will cheer my Huskies on, good or bad.
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There have been positive posts (I wrote some!) but somehow the negative posts are, "louder"

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justML said:
There have been positive posts (I wrote some!) but somehow the negative posts are, "louder"

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Amd from "drive-by" posters, no less.

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Kait14 said:
Is there a reason Caroline's been benched?
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I didn't watch the whole game, but Caroline had 3 quick fouls, all in the first half. When I saw her going to the bench I didn't think she would return because of her knee. Geno has said that it becomes painful if she doesn't keep playing.

Unless something else happened that I missed.
 
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Exactly why I didn't bother to come to the game thread. The negatives and whining has become overbearing.

We might need two game threads.
 
Guys, when you score 19 points in the second half and were on pace to score a lot less than that for much of the period, people are going to get anxious and negative. There's no reason to blow sunshine up anyone's rear end; that was an ugly game (and not just because it was Rutgers). It's just not good enough for UConn to get where they want to go in a few weeks. Yes, this is a transitional year, and yes, I've maintained that getting to the Final Four would be a tremendous accomplishment for this group, but it still is disappointing to see the team regressed from a month ago.
 
True, Alex, but it is the ignorance of many of the comments or the obviousness that makes them unbearable. Yours are never the type I am talking about. Plus some days are simply tough enough without needing to add the whining.
 
Icebear said:
Exactly why I didn't bother to come to the game thread. The negatives and whining has become overbearing.

We might need two game threads.
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Ice, if people like you don't post, then the positive (or at least sane) comments get drowned in the negative. Especially on nights when many regular posters are at the game.

I'd hate to see us like the other board with the majority of posters either silent or in chat during games while the drive-by and/or hysterical posters take over the thread.
 
justML said:
Ice, if people like you don't post, then the positive (or at least sane) comments get drowned in the negative. Especially on nights when many regular posters are at the game.

I'd hate to see us like the other board with the majority of posters either silent or in chat during games while the drive-by and/or hysterical posters take over the thread.
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I understand. I read it this morning and the thread wasn't bad until it bubbled over on about page 7. People making silly assertions about the attitude and team leadership drive me nuts. These are unprovable one way or the other but they become a complaint and focus because the team struggles periodically. What was ignored was the tremendous defense played holding RU to 34. The game was played with few possessions 49/45. It was destined to be low scoring. The negative trend has been we are not getting possessions in recent games but 49 was a low.
 
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Icebear said:
Exactly why I didn't bother to come to the game thread. The negatives and whining has become overbearing.

We might need two game threads.
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I like this idea! Click here for positive remarks, click there for criticism. :p
 
Icebear said:
I understand. I read it this morning and the thread wasn't bad until it bubbled over on about page 7. People making silly assertions about the attitude and team leadership drive me nuts. These are unprovable one way or the other but they become a complaint and focus because the team struggles periodically. What was ignored was the tremendous defense played holding RU to 34. The game was played with few possessions 49/45. It was destined to be low scoring. The negative trend has been we are not getting possessions in recent games but 49 was a low.
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We cannot all see the game as succinctly, as profoundly, and with as much knowledge, experience, and optimism as others might. I also do not see how criticizing other posters as being silly and ignorant advance the dialogue on this board. It is fair to say that we are all driven nuts here from time to time. Yet, we keep coming back.
 
VAUConnFan said:
We cannot all see the game as succinctly, as profoundly, and with as much knowledge, experience, and optimism as others might. I also do not see how criticizing other posters as being silly and ignorant advance the dialogue on this board. It is fair to say that we are all driven nuts here from time to time. Yet, we keep coming back.
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Another thought...

Some posters are watching the game either alone or with people who aren't as invested as we are. I think sometimes they use the board to say the things that the rest of us say in our living rooms where no one else can hear our hysteria/over-reaction/curse words.

I really try to give people the benefit of the doubt; not knowing them personally, and hope that other posters can stop mass hysteria on the board.
 
VAUConnFan said:
We cannot all see the game as succinctly, as profoundly, and with as much knowledge, experience, and optimism as others might. I also do not see how criticizing other posters as being silly and ignorant advance the dialogue on this board. It is fair to say that we are all driven nuts here from time to time. Yet, we keep coming back.
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Actually, I think most people are capable of making thoughtful and effective comments. I suppose that it can be even more clearly said many of the comments don't advance the quality of play by the team, too. At least on the board there is the possibility dialog and having an impact.
 
I started to post last night, but deleted my comments and decided to wait until this morning. All I can say is this was such a poor game and several key players did not show up. The bottom line is we got a W.
 
So if a performance was collectively bad, why? If the trend is bad, why? What is different now? What are teams doing against us presently that they were not earlier and how is that resulting in the present struggles? If you can't diagnose the problem you can't begin to address it.
 
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