UConn v All Star Team

[Icebear]

If it were truly the best pros and they had a few weeks to practice I'd go with 0-10, maybe, maybe 1-9. But UConn would have a better shot than most of the opponents on this year's schedule will have vs the Huskies!

I agree. If the pro team had time to practice and prepare as a unified team 0-10 is a very real possibility. Look at the list of the list of the 2008 Olympic team pool. A devastating group.

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That is a completely different premise from a college All Star team.

 

[UcMiami]

Any college team or college all star team would get stuffed by the national team 10 out of 10 times and it wouldn't be close - of the college all star team maybe 4 of the 12 players will mature into national team players and another few will make the national team pool at some point during their careers - you are just dealing with a much smaller pool of talent when you are limited to 4 years vs the national team that is culling the best of the best from the last 15 years and who have much more experience and have fully honed their skills playing in the W and internationally and against much stronger competition. It would sort of be like choosing an all freshman team and sending them up against an all senior team of college players - you might have a few Stewart like players on the freshman team that might hold their own, but the seniors would be physically and mentally much stronger and with a much more mature skill set.
And I love our team, but against an all star team that did not match the same age breakdown of the Uconn team you would end up with many of the same issues. I would give Uconn a couple of wins and against an age balanced team they might get a couple more but I doubt they would get to 5-5.

 

[reno tony]

Haven't heard anyone talk about defense. I think UCONN will play as an experienced team should and will play typical big defense. To be fair, the all stars should only carry nine players.... I'm not going to count our two walk-ons. Forget about the nonsense of Geno coaching the all stars.... pick someone else. He is a UCONN coach first. They can have anyone else.... it won't matter. Matching up player to player might be fun to do, but UCONN will play as a team and not a group of stars. That is why they will win more than they lose. That is why they probably end the season with a 46 game winning streak and Number Nine. The only thing that stops them this year will be serious injury issues.

 

[UcMiami]

Haven't heard anyone talk about defense. I think UCONN will play as an experienced team should and will play typical big defense. To be fair, the all stars should only carry nine players.... I'm not going to count our two walk-ons. Forget about the nonsense of Geno coaching the all stars.... pick someone else. He is a UCONN coach first. They can have anyone else.... it won't matter. Matching up player to player might be fun to do, but UCONN will play as a team and not a group of stars. That is why they will win more than they lose. That is why they probably end the season with a 46 game winning streak and Number Nine. The only thing that stops them this year will be serious injury issues.

Reno - the original premise was that any all star team got 6 months of practice with say Muffet as coach. So in six months an all star team should be playing as organized an offense and defense as Uconn. The talent throughout all the USA teams from under 16 - national has been good enough to gel and win gold with extremely limited practice time which says great things about those teams and how smart the players are. But that is the exception - as the men proved a few times in the not so distant past.