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Message: [QUOTE="ocoandasoc, post: 3402116, member: 3032"] Nice analysis. I, too, will be astonished if UConn makes the Final Four. It will help that they will be over seeded thanks to playing in a weak conference. But I see five of six Pac 12 teams, two SEC teams, Baylor, Louisville, NC State, etc. that could send them home. And UConn fans should be glad that the Tenn game is in CT because the Huskies may need the home crowd. Let's be honest, their road performances at Memphis and UCF were dreadful. There are three words that can usually be associated with Geno's teams. Quick, confident, and consistent. We're a little short on all three. Our three star players are quick, but it's not translating into team quickness. The consistency is obviously not there on the offensive end. And it seems that our three stars are not confident in the skills of the next three in the rotation -- and I don't think you can blame them. Often as the offens unfolds I find myself telling Crystal to forget passing and shoot the three because it will probably be the highest percentage shot we'll get before a turnover or the shot clock expires. Ono plays, hard but against the better teams she'll seldom get a matchup on the offensive end that she can capitalize on. Her shot blocking is great... her touch around the basket, layups, and freethrow shooting are not of the same caliber. UConn's inside-out game suffers because she often can't cleanly handle the pass in, is too slow with the pass out, or because the other team doesn't feel they need to double her when the ball goes in. Makurat sometimes looks like she's playing freeze tag when she takes two dribbles and stops. She needs a lot of time to ponder her shot if we want a reasonable certainty that it will go through the net. And Kyla looks like a quarterback making handoffs at the top of the key. But, God bless her, she understands her role and her limitations and is usually in the right place at the right time, even if often her ablities won't allow her to take the best advantage of it. Griffin has the most potential and athleticism of the "non-stars," but she is unable at this point to play as smart as the other two and with her limited minutes the team's offensive flow doesn't seem to get better when she' inserted. Basically, UConn in 2019-2020 is going through the same challenges that most Top 25 teams face every year. We're just not used to it. [/QUOTE]

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