USAB WUG

[UConnCat]

Revolving door in Colorado Springs. The WUG team (KML and Bria) leaves for Russia today while the U19 team (Stewie, Morgan and Moriah) arrives for training camp.

Here's a quick-moving video of some of the WUG team. I guess this replaces traditional photos? Must be a social media thing. KML and Bria looking fit.

https://vine.co/v/hagmjIPA3Vw

 

[msf22b]

Here's a quick-moving video of some of the WUG team. I guess this replaces traditional photos? Must be a social media thing. KML and Bria looking fit.

https://vine.co/v/hagmjIPA3Vw[/quote]

It is awful quick, but is KML looking thinner…much?

 

[RadyLady]

You can click on the images of the video as it plays to pause it - click again to get it moving.

 

[VAMike23]

Here's a quick-moving video of some of the WUG team. I guess this replaces traditional photos? Must be a social media thing. KML and Bria looking fit.

https://vine.co/v/hagmjIPA3Vw

It is awful quick, but is KML looking thinner…much?[/quote]

I think she looks thinner as well

 

[MilfordHusky]

I couldn't pause it on my phone, and the images are small.

Here's a still:

http://www.usabasketball.com/womens/worlduniversity/roster.html

We have a poster named Slimmer56. Kaleena is Slimmer11.

 

[wallman]

Kaleena looks great and is great but Gray most definitely is not 6 3!

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Anyone else interested to see who the starting 5 are???

I sure am!

 

[Kibitzer]

Anyone else interested to see who the starting 5 are???

I sure am!

Mosqueda-Lewis, Sims, three others.

 

[triaddukefan]

Anyone else interested to see who the starting 5 are???

I sure am!

I am, but not as much as I am in seeing who starts for the u-19 squad

 

[baggerbob]

Starting on these teams isn't anything, Stewie usually never starts in the preliminary rounds of these tournaments, but ends up on tournament team.

 

[HGN]

Revolving door in Colorado Springs. The WUG team (KML and Bria) leaves for Russia today while the U19 team (Stewie, Morgan and Moriah) arrives for training camp.

Here's a quick-moving video of some of the WUG team. I guess this replaces traditional photos? Must be a social media thing. KML and Bria looking fit.

https://vine.co/v/hagmjIPA3Vw

UConn Cat you said 'quick moving' video........you should have said 'warp speed' video. The images move so quick you can hardly click the mouse fast enough to hold them so that you can see the player(s).

 

[arty155]

I couldn't pause it on my phone, and the images are small.

Here's a still:

http://www.usabasketball.com/womens/worlduniversity/roster.html

- Cat, Thanks much for this tread & video
- Milford, Thanks for digging up that excellent team photo
- Guys, here's that still (screen shot) of the video's warp-speed pic... of both our Team USA WUG UConn All Americans. Best I could do, given my very limited anti-social network 'skills.'

 

[UConnCat]

Great job arty. Thanks.

KML looks great; Bria does too.

 

[calpedaler]

Coverage is on espnu and espn3. Here's an article and schedule.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Coverage is on espnu and espn3. Here's an article and schedule.

According to the ESPNU and ESPN3 listings, the only WBB games shown are the Semis and Finals on the weekend of the 13-15th.
If anyone can find some other streaming coverage of the Prelim games, please post.

 

[pap49cba]

This may be a possible source... www.livefisu.tv

LINK to article that mentions "basketball".

 

[ochoopsfan]

Looks like there will be twitter updates on the WUG at
https://twitter.com/BrendaVanLengen

The starting line up for an informal scrimmage vs Russia was
Brenda VanLengen ‏@BrendaVanLengen

14h​

USA WBB @usabasketball starting with Sims, Ellenberg, Hartley, Mosqueda-Lewis and Harberts in informal scrimmage #WUGUSA

That seems like a small line up. Maybe Coach Coale doesn't want to show anything ahead of time.

USA lost to the Russians 83-78.
There are several pictures linked to her her various tweets from the past two days.


USA Basketball posted a link on the teams day in Kazan
http://www.usabasketball.com//womens/worlduniversity/kremlin_visit.html

 

[pap49cba]

Box score of the friendly with Russia

Bria with 12 pts., KML with 2.

 

[Phil]

Off day for KML. When's the last time she was 0-5 beyond the arc?

 

[dtbtbtb]

This team seems short and not too good on defense (maybe because they are so short). IMO USA Basketball should have put Stewie on this team as the U-19 is a very big team and should win comfortably

 

[ed4ourgirls]

Yeah, Russia shooting 61% on 2 pointers suggests that our post defense needs work.

 

[meyers7]

Off day for KML. When's the last time she was 0-5 beyond the arc?

Yikes!

Wow, that don't happen......ever that I can remember. At least her "bad" game was in an exhibition.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Yeah, Russia shooting 61% on 2 pointers suggests that our post defense needs work.

Not sure what defenses were played but judging by the minutes of the 4 bigs on the team, Plaisaince-23min; Hooper-16min; Harberts 14min and Gray 2+min, it seems the USA was dominated in size nearly all of the game. I would have like to have to Stewart on this team.
Also, the following bigs were not available to play this year: Dolson-Injury, E. Williams -Injury, Ogwumike-school commitment in Africa, K. Bone-left TAM to go pro.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Just looking at stats of the Russians Bigs
Paskaenko 6'7" 11pts
Vieru 6'6" 12pts
Loginuva 6'3" 14pts
They also had 2 other girls @6'2" and another girl @6'4"

One other note on the Russians, all but one of the girls on the team are between 22-24 years old. The USA team is between 19-21
With a team of that size, experience, shooting 61% from 2pt range, out rebounding the USA 40-32, playing at home, and all Russian refs(never forget the 72 Olympics) I think we have a good shot in a rematch.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

. . . and all Russian refs(never forget the 72 Olympics) . . .

Unless my memory is faulty (not an impossibility), that Olympic fiasco in '72 was not the fault of the
refs. If it had been up to the refs the game would have been over with a USA victory. It was some
Olympic basketball poobah (a Brit I think), who came out of the stands and made the refs give
Russia another chance. His comment afterward was something to the effect that he thought it
would be good for international basketball if Russia won (rather than the USA winning all the time).

 

[ochoopsfan]

Unless my memory is faulty (not an impossibility), that Olympic fiasco in '72 was not the fault of the
refs. If it had been up to the refs the game would have been over with a USA victory. It was some Olympic basketball poobah (a Brit I think), who came out of the stands and made the refs give Russia another chance. His comment afterward was something to the effect that he thought it would be good for international basketball if Russia won (rather than the USA winning all the time).

I cant say I ever heard that story.

 

[UConnCat]

Unless my memory is faulty (not an impossibility), that Olympic fiasco in '72 was not the fault of the
refs. If it had been up to the refs the game would have been over with a USA victory. It was some
Olympic basketball poobah (a Brit I think), who came out of the stands and made the refs give
Russia another chance. His comment afterward was something to the effect that he thought it
would be good for international basketball if Russia won (rather than the USA winning all the time).

Good memory. The Brit's name was R.William Jones, who believed that a Russian victory would be good for basketball. There was some suggestion per private communications by former Olympic head Avery Brundage that Jones was a communist sympathizer. He was a known tyrant who came out of the stands to insist that the Russians be given not one but two additional chances to in-bound the ball after Doug Collins' free throws gave USA the lead. The third try resulted in Alexander Belov's winning basket.