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RockyMTblue2 said:
Wish I could contribute, but I was picking up the spouse at the airport. I'll watch the replay. What I see here makes me believe I'll be shouting profanities at the TV. :eek:
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Actually you're going to enjoy this game. Fun from start to finish. How could anyone be disappointed if it were a loss and this young team played that hard?
 
JordyG said:
It already is Nan.
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Naw---it's going to be a great season. look at the development that happened tonight with Collier, Dangerfield, Chong, Samuelson---they all learned a lot. And the ylearned they can come from behind if they work as a team and take better unrushed shots.
I enjoyed this game. This is ONE GAME with 8 or 10 kids that never played as a team --it take time to develop chemistry and to mentally know what each team member is going to do. Not a great game but fun to watch.
 
BroadwayVa said:
Naw---it's going to be a great season. look at the development that happened tonight with Collier, Dangerfield, Chong, Samuelson---they all learned a lot. And the ylearned they can come from behind if they work as a team and take better unrushed shots.
I enjoyed this game. This is ONE GAME with 8 or 10 kids that never played as a team --it take time to develop chemistry and to mentally know what each team member is going to do. Not a great game but fun to watch.
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Double like.
 
JordyG said:
There were some iffy calls, but mostly the officiating was better than average, which is a plus for WCBB.
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The officiating wasn't horrible (for WCBB) but I do think it was worse than average.
 
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JordyG said:
Actually you're going to enjoy this game. Fun from start to finish. How could anyone be disappointed if it were a loss and this young team played that hard?
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I got home with 3 minutes to play, saw the score on ESPN and started reconciling myself to a "learning experience loss", but they went ahead and ruined that! :)
 
BroadwayVa said:
Naw---it's going to be a great season. look at the development that happened tonight with Collier, Dangerfield, Chong, Samuelson---they all learned a lot. And the ylearned they can come from behind if they work as a team and take better unrushed shots.
I enjoyed this game. This is ONE GAME with 8 or 10 kids that never played as a team --it take time to develop chemistry and to mentally know what each team member is going to do. Not a great game but fun to watch.
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Why no Kyla in the game?
 
Kaizen said:
Crystal is planing much better than L Cox (zero point tonight) ...LOL
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You should wait until the game is over Thursday night before you do too much laughing. Cox just couldn't get on the court tonight because Kalani Brown was so dominant. I'm not sure I remember Griner having a more complete game than Brown had tonight.
 
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BroadwayVa said:
I agree with your first paragraph and the Refs--they wanted their TV time.

I thought Geno gave his kids enough rope to hang themselves and they nearly did--but he finally put in his experience and pulled the team together and history was written. Make no mistake--Geno hates losing..

Geno was checking with Marissa during that fouling sequence. I thought his use of Dangerfield was inspired, effective, and right.
Also putting a frosh in during the last 1 minute show he has lots of trust in her abilities and intelligence. It proved the right move.

Uconn in this game caused like 20 fouls way too many turnovers--but that was not the problem of this UConn team---shot selection during the first half was the problem--rushed shots way too many by every player.

Lots of pluses in this game--Dangerfield, Collier 26 point???? Wow, Samuelson found her shots, Chong Chong Chong--proved she could be the player she was in HS in scoring, Butler was very effective as was Gabby, Kia played in the game too, Molly played well for a Frosh in a far away game. This was not the greatest exhibition by a Uconn team but it did show they could come from behind and beat a good team on their home court.

The refs took away any flow for this game--in the first half no one could move without a foul. Both team were frustrated by the Refs.
All in all i enjoyed this game--it's been a long time since i wasn't sure of the out come..
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Dangerfield should have never come out of the game at 6:55 for Nurse. She already has a better feel for the pace and is more under control.
 
HuskyNan said:
These seasons are fun to watch, and GREAT to see in person, but it's tough to be a mod. There are lots of cranky-pants on the board when UConn doesn't win by 40.
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I would suggest those that demand 40 point wins are not truly UCWBB fans---although part of being the fan of a college team is to Monday morning second guess the coach on close games--it's been so long since we had that opportunity--some may have forgotten how to second guess Geno!! But for me that is my forte.
 
I like games like this far more than 40-point blowouts. Of course one could enjoy the amazing athleticism of the Triumvirate, and the symphonic precision of the offense when they were running it. But I like suspense, and I also like seeing unexpected players like Napheesa, Saniya, and Crystal having HUGE games. It's also easy to imagine how much room this team has to improve -- their talent so far exceeds their actual production this evening. It's a safe bet that we will see that gradually develop over the season, not without a few losses in November and December.

We always say that the team will be much better in March and April than it is at this time in the season, and it is always true. But that will be especially true this season, and especially significant.

BTW, I think it is entirely possible that Natalie Butler will replace Kia Nurse in the starting lineup on Thursday evening. Natalie played well, and Kia did not, so there would be a "dog house" aspect of this change as well as a recognition that if the small lineup of starters tonight could not clear the boards against Florida State, they certainly will not be successful against Baylor.

If Butler starts, then one of tonight's starters has to come off the bench. Based on tonight's productivity, it would have to be Kia.

I don't see this as a permanent move, just a one game adaptation that also serves as a nudge to Kia to get her head more in the game.
 
ThisJustIn said:
Listened to the Florida TunieIn feed. They were amused at how long it took for UConn to get called for a foul in the second half.
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A millionaire coach may have adjusted their income at half time--or Uconn played with more poise in the second half.
 
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I do think Geno made a few coaching mistakes at the end. Don't think he realized Chong had 4 fouls, and then the miscommunication to Nurse, who also had 4. Had the game gone to OT, it would've been a challenge to not have the 2 primary ball handlers.

But Geno did coach the team through a shaky first half and then a 7 point deficit, so I guess we can keep him.
 
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BobbyJ said:
Dangerfield should have never come out of the game at 6:55 for Nurse. She already has a better feel for the pace and is more under control.
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BobbyJ---I don't much like agreeing with someone who disagrees with Geno's game management--but i thought the same thing. in my stupid unpracticed coaching opinion i thought Geno's use of Dangerfield was some of his best coaching--and leaving Gabby in to get her 3'd within 4 minutes of the beginning of the game--wasn't. So now all my brownie points for supporting Geno have been used up agreeing with you--what shall i do now"/???? And not one atta-boy in sight.
 
vowelguy said:
I do think Geno made a few coaching mistakes at the end. Don't think he realized Ching had 4 fouls, and then the miscommunication to Nurse, who also had 4. Had the game gone to OT, it would've been a challenge to not have the 2 primary ball handlers.

But Geno did coach the team through a shaky first half and then a 7 point deficit, so I guess we can keep him.
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Son of a gun---I was just about to start the petition to have him removed for malfeasance of game management on the ground the Boneyard dis agreed with is final moment management. Then you went and kept him! Dang!!
 
DICKG said:
He coached terribly in the last two minutes.
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Don't the other 38 minutes count?

Yes he was awful the last 2 minutes.

But what the other 38? Why do you forget about that?
 
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Let's appreciate that Geno was caught between a couple of impulses. That he played everyone except Lawlor (understandably) and Kyla (inexplicably) suggests that he is trying out a number of different combinations over the long haul and that he wants to give everyone some experience. A loss, as someone suggested above (or maybe the other thread) isn't the worst thing to relieve pressure. So, generally, he wanted the game to go its own way, without his overcoaching. But at the end, he needs to make quick decisions, and that suddenly pulls him into a different mentality.

And....he wasn't helped by his coaches who gave him the wrong information about the number of fouls to give (first time in years he's asked that question so naturally no one was prepared). And it was incredibly bad luck that Kia's foul suddenly turned into a shooting foul. And it wasn't his fault that Natalie couldn't effectively boxout on that last foul shot.
 
Carnac said:
All we can do is play the cards we're dealt. He may start Butler Thursday. He can't afford to fall behind at the start of the game, and play catch up the rest of the night.
You can't put Lou on her, two quick fouls in the 1st quarter, and she sits the rest of the half. Then you go to plan B.whatever that is. He'll figure out something, he always does. Geno earned his money tonight.
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Probably a zone defense, right? Maybe pressure them up the court (not hard pressure) to eat a little time off the clock. Pressure doesn't always have to be to speed the game up or force turnovers. Though it would probably be nice to speed the game up but I don't know this early if they are capable to do that.
 
vowelguy said:
I do think Geno made a few coaching mistakes at the end. Don't think he realized Chong had 4 fouls, and then the miscommunication to Nurse, who also had 4. Had the game gone to OT, it would've been a challenge to not have the 2 primary ball handlers.

But Geno did coach the team through a shaky first half and then a 7 point deficit, so I guess we can keep him.
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The name is Chong!
bags27 said:
Let's appreciate that Geno was caught between a couple of impulses. That he played everyone except Lawlor (understandably) and Kyla (inexplicably) suggests that he is trying out a number of different combinations over the long haul and that he wants to give everyone some experience. A loss, as someone suggested above (or maybe the other thread) isn't the worst thing to relieve pressure. So, generally, he wanted the game to go its own way, without his overcoaching. But at the end, he needs to make quick decisions, and that suddenly pulls him into a different mentality.

And....he wasn't helped by his coaches who gave him the wrong information about the number of fouls to give (first time in years he's asked that question so naturally no one was prepared). And it was incredibly bad luck that Kia's foul suddenly turned into a shooting foul. And it wasn't his fault that Natalie couldn't effectively boxout on that last foul shot.
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While I agree with you for the most part, I would be remissed if I don't ask you how you knew?
 
@vowelguy, sorry about that, I should know that as your name indicates, you would catch your misprint of Saniya's name.
Cheers!
 
BroadwayVa said:
Naw---it's going to be a great season. look at the development that happened tonight with Collier, Dangerfield, Chong, Samuelson---they all learned a lot. And the ylearned they can come from behind if they work as a team and take better unrushed shots.
I enjoyed this game. This is ONE GAME with 8 or 10 kids that never played as a team --it take time to develop chemistry and to mentally know what each team member is going to do. Not a great game but fun to watch.
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Agree. I think we need Nurse to score more and we can compete with most or all of the top teams. I expected Chong and Lou to score but if we get Pheesa,Gabby and Nurse scoring....then we will be better than I thought. As a side note.....I forgot South Carolina had those two transfers. If they gel well....then the title should be theirs. I think convincingly.
 
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