I think a lot of the fouling and turnovers were the result of a team that is young and there were players who were trying to do too much. They settled down and played much better in the second half.
Off to Knoxville with him!!
Those pants sure have legs in this thread.
He's probably amazed at how fickle UConn basketball fans are. At the first sign of anything other than dominance, there's a feeding frenzy to rip and ravage. He knows how expectations are so high because of years of amazing results but there are some things thrown out here that are simply baffling. The criticism of that Stanford loss a couple of years back in the second game of the season, breaking a big winning streak with a couple of new players in the starting lineup, was off the charts. The fact that we didn't lose again that year and followed it with an unbeaten season suggests how totally unreasonable a lot of us have come to be.
I thought Samuelson handled herself wonderfully playing for well over one quarter while having four fouls. There may be circumstances (at least this year) where that type of self control and restraint can be crucial to this team and it's nice seeing how well she managed herself while still being productive.
Well then maybe you need to pay better attention. Or maybe you're so old you've forgotten??
First of all, you have to separate the strategy to commit fouls from WHO commits them. It would have been wise to have someone else commit them, and for the two players to know they have 4 fouls and alert the coaches to that fact so they can adjust their strategy.
I dare say, uniquely cranky in at least 50 years or so.
Coach got away with it with Stewie in the Oregon State game; he didn't get away with it with Gabby....
Napheesa Collier was the only UCONN player on the floor with less than 4 fouls. Crystal, Kyla, Natalie, or Molly could/should have been substituted in for any of the 4 players (KLS, Saniya, Gabby, & Kia) with 4 fouls. And I keep harping on this in WCBB there is nothing that says you have to foul around the ball. But Kyla in the game and say Kyla you have 1 job when the ball crosses half court I want you to foul the closest FSU player to you.
Only if you separate the strategy (to foul) from the execution (who fouls and when). The former was the right call IMO, the latter was poorly executed.
So let's just let them pass it around and set a pic for a 3 before you get a chance to foul. Is that right ? Many close games have been decided with 4 seconds or less also.
At the :21 Sec mark of the game UCONN possession out of bounds FSU up by 1 point. FSU coming out of a time out with direction to foul. FSU fouled with no time coming off the clock sending Napheesa to the line for two shot. Geno had time while the free throws were being shot to provide instruction and make substitute. UCONN did not pressure the inbounds pass of FSU. Geno waited until FSU was crossing half-court to instruct Saniya to foul-Wrong person. Side out for FSU and Saniya is fouled out by rule Geno get 's 30 seconds to make the sub and he could/should have used every bit of that 30 seconds to instruct the rest of the players. Geno made a sub Dangerfield and instructed Kia to foul after play resumed. Kia fouled with minimal time coming off the clock her 4th foul. At this point there was much confusion about two specific things 1) How many fouls did UCONN have to give 2) How many fouls did Kia have. The right answers were Zero fouls to give, and Kia had 4 Fouls. You can see Geno motion to Shea & Marissa & CD holding up one finger. Geno instructed Kia to foul again probably thinking they had 1 more foul to give thus holding up 1 finger to the staff. Brown of FSU was close enough when Geno gave the instruction to foul. Brown smartly decided if they are going to foul I'm going to shoot- very smart on her part.
This is an issue because you are in a one possession game and the player most responsible for getting you one possession ahead (Saniya) is now fouled out of the game. If the game goes into overtime you are now without your starting backcourt. I do not believe the strategy was to send FSU to the foul line. I think the strategy was to use the available fouls (2) to run some time off the clock because FSU had no timeouts. The mistake was thinking there were 3 available fouls and give brown credit for making a very heady play.
Entirely possible. But once again the mistake was communicating while the action was happening. That communication should have happened in the 30 seconds that Geno and staff were allocated to sub after Saniya fouled. I have seen coaches stretch that 30 seconds into almost a full timeout. The entire staff and Geno especially seemed shocked and slightly paralyzed after Saniya fouled out. It makes no sense to me that UCONN would want to put FSU on the line to cut into the lead when FSU had no ability to stop the clock. Makes more sense that by fouling up to the limit UCONN could run the clock down and have FSU have to inbounds and run a play without benefit of instruction from the coach.
Strategy. Execution. What is so difficult about understanding this???? You are usually not this slow on the pick up????
Coco, if I ever committed a crime, I wouldn't want you investigating the evidence. Luckily, in this case, Geno 'lawyered up' with Collier and he beat the rap.