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Message: [QUOTE="Tonyc, post: 4208524, member: 73"] The next week will tell us alot about our Huskies. We've been through hell and back and we're standing tall. The Xavier game showed us alot. Some of you look at that game and say hey Xavier was depleted and not very good. Really and what has UConn been for most of the season. Even though they had Caroline and Liv back part time what a difference it made against Xavier. I dont care who you play, you go on a 35-0 run and that tells you somethin. Another point when are some of you doubters gonna become believers?????? Come on, your UConn fans. I remember an ole story about Walt Disney. Someone approached Walt after he build Disneyland and said to him and I will paraphrase Walt this place is beautiful how did you do it and Walt Disney replied if I didnt see it first I couldnt have built it. Walt had vision. This UConn team is loaded like no other in WCBB today. What they dont have is experience playing together and that will come over the next few weeks. We have learned to play Paige-less over the past few months. Then we had to learn to play without alot of different players and alot of key players and then we had to take time off for Covid. Now we are here. We got better when Azzi got back in the lineup. Teams focused on her which allowed other players to get open and zones to go to man to man. Now we have Caroline and Liv back which gave us depth and the ability to play more then 6 players. Having Azzi and Caroline opened things up and we scored 89 pts against a depleted Xavier team and you know what? We did it. To me it doesnt matter who we did it against we did it and we did it Paige-less. Let me add Amari and Paith poured it on too which makes we think we are maturing and growing and...well we're getting to where many of us thought we would be at this point in the season. Proceed with caution because we aint there yet. We still need to build our chemistry become cohesive, build confidence and continuity together and we will have to do it again when Paige gets back. Opponents are gonna have a problem defending us. We saw a 35-0 run and that showed me we can put up alot of points in a very short time. Now I know it wasnt SC or Stanford but you know wha? We wont face those 2 teams until the Final Four if they make it, because we will be there . We will make it because we are a team lead by guards and and our guards are great guards who can handle the ball, make good decisions, and can score in a variety of different ways. We have 4 Bigs 6'5 and a 6'3 and 6'2 that can score especially when you have guards like we have that can open things up. We may be better then I thought because we've have to overcome so much this season and being Paige-less has taught us to play and depend on ourselves. Because of that we have grown as a team and most importantly we have gained confidence in ourselves. Most teams need a go to player who can bail them out when the goin gets tuff. We have Azzi Caroline and soon Paige. Nothing more needs to be said. I expect over the next few games to see alot of players play. We need to do that to protect our injured players who are coming back and those players will play limited minutes to protect them from getting reinjured. We are out to win the NC. Thats the goal. The goal to get us there is to stay healthy and we then have a chance. Guys I really dont think a healthy UConn team that is up to speed can loose. As you see teams ranked ahead of us in the polls begin to loose, and I see UConn maturing and growing and their confidence is exploding and then when Paige gets back...well I think its over. [/QUOTE]

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