Wow, for a point in that game I could see that. Did you see the look on her face after being called for her second ( I think it was the second ) foul? Her expression would have scared me if it was directed in my direction. I love watching her play, but the facial expressions she makes are priceless. We need a video of all her reactions, and I think we should make her real nickname, " The Face" .
Villanova tried to win based on skill versus Marquette and others that tried to physically intimidate UConn. While neither have worked lately for Huskie's competition, have to respect Denise Dillion coaching style. Dillion coached the most wins in Drexal's history and continues to build a nice resume at her Alma Mater.
During warmups, Nika is smiling & hamming it up for the cameras. After the opening tipoff, she turns the smile into a frightening Chucky scowl!
can we please stop with this "Villanova was trying to injure players" garbage. Why do some users always have to resort to this when a game is played?
It's not her face I care about, it's the faces of her opponents, which she's right in, every moment she's on the court.
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Especially when the game is in progress. FoxSports missed a lot of the action while showing crowd shots & bench action.
LOL... I bet they don't call those touch fouls in Croatia. And knowing Nika, she probably also played against the Croatian MEN!!
There isn't one team in the country that wouldn't take Alliyah. And she would start on 99.9% of them. She makes her defender work hard, she aggressively chases down offensive rebounds, she has become a reliable free throw shooter, & her outside shot has been deadly.
Paige clearly isn't close to 100% and probably won't be till next year..Caroline unfortunately has lost a lot of playing time to Azzi and of course we all want Azzi in there but I also wondered why she was playing 36 mins. in a blowout while Caroline only played 16 mins..Hey everyone saying what a great job Geno has done this year and he has but it may be even a tougher job figuring out who plays with who and how many mins everyone gets going forward..guess his assistants are going to have to help with that.
My husband and I were discussing the Caroline/Azzi time thing. He thought that Geno wants to get Azzi into a groove going into the tourney and was giving her more time on the court since she came back after Caroline got many minutes under her belt. Geno now has the luxury of playing Caroline limited minutes until she feels 100%. Last I heard, CD said Caroline wasn’t quite there yet.
Why can't you just let him do just that?
The 79 rank is from this weeks
Here is the link.
www.ncaa.com
Good call, Nan! Also, Geno has mentioned there is often a tournament game where the teams doesn't perform well, but one player carries them by lighting up the board. With Paige still healing, I'm guessing Geno believes that Azzi has that capability.
I remember audibly gasping when it happened, but it was moreso for the Villanova girl who broke her fall. Yikes!
Not the trophy, the league.
The committee is also d part of their seeding to take into consideration injuries, to whom, when and return of players.
Geno always says what he thinks the teams needs to hear, not necessarily what he thinks. It was a great commentary. I think he was preempting what he was afraid might become an issue.
Bam!
