He had a chance to work on that yesterday but declined
If Uconn doesnt play better than the last 2 games ,South Carolina will run the Huskies off the island!
If the Huskies are going to get out rebounded anyways, they might as well play 4 guards.
But if CW keeps having games like today watch him play Dorka and Liv (and AE) a lot.
Fouls neutralized Christyn today. She played OK in the 4th qtr. UConn will certainly need her best tomorrow.
USF had some important players injured last year.
Rebounding isn’t about height, it’s about positioning. UConn’s boxing out has been poor so far this year.
Coach could have given significantly more time to non starters yesterday, but chose not to.
"So much for the naysayers..." Now let me say nay? Seriously?
Rebounding is about positioning and desire. Players that are out of position can often overcome this with desire and hustle. Smaller teams with plenty of desire and hustle can also be out rebounded by taller teams that consistently get better positioning. Teams that are taller with positioning and both desire and hustle will always out rebound a smaller team no matter that team desire.
It’s way too early to declare Ducharme a non factor. And we don’t know what’s up with Nika, but when she started last year, Geno said we were a “different team” - and that was in a good way! Let’s wait till we start playing more cupcake teams to see how things play out. I suspect that by mid-season, Griffin, Muhl, Ducharme will be contributing.
Full court press? You mean like buy her a car or something? Auriemma recruited her out of HS and she wanted no part of his program. She wanted no part of SC either until the second time around.
Basketball at it's core is still a game played inside out so it doesn't matter how many perimeter players you have even, if they are great shooters so, until Uconn can get consistent production from it's bigs we will alway struggle and or lose when it counts . how many championships have we won without a dominant big ? the answer is none how many final fours have we lost because we didn't have a dominant big? the last four. How many have we won with a dominant big ? 11 look it up. The ability to score on the blocks or in the lane is what opens up the perimeter and so far Liv and Dorka are not performing up to par we may have to wait for Amari and Ice before we can become truly dominant
The more I watch this team I see it as an 8 deep club, but without Aubrey. At this point, would rather see Evina get more minutes and see if CD can continue her aggressiveness and polish her shot. While we are getting burned by the 30+ foot 3 pointer, overall our defense is fine. Aubrey will have her moments but we need more consistent offense.
The blow outs were generally when Jose would let his team try to run with UCONN, because, "That's who we [USF Bulls} are...." The close games were always when Jose coached his team to "grind it out" - it's a "choose your poison" situation. Update: 26-0 vs. USF, but always entertaining IMO.
Would take it with a grain of salt what Geno says about playing time at this point. In offseason made it seem like Ducharme could step in and play right away, four minutes. Dorka could push to start, she is closer to tenth person off the bench than starter and Nika can't ever score.
Our strength literally isn’t inside. When has this team shown that? The posts usually don’t produce much (points wise) when playing against good competition. Our strength is very obviously our guards. We have the best guard in the nation in PB, if CW can be more consistent that’s another elite talent and then Azzi is also likely in that category. Do our posts need to step up? Yes but our strength is and will continue to be our guard play.
