Not offended, just don't really understand why she felt the need to bring CD into the discussion. She wants to praise Paige before she plays her fine by me. However if you have to say it's not a slight it usually is. While I can't know what Dawns real intent was I take your point, except the offended part, talk before a game is usually just posturing.
SC defensive is just as good if not better than last year. UCONN offensive is much better than last year. SC scoring average this year is identical(1 point difference) to last year. So I expect the game to be closer. Both teams somewhere between 75 and 65 points.
Hope the team’s scout is similar to yours...if it is, and we execute it, and Liv manages to keep her arms vertical on blocks, we should be fine....as long as we’re finding the basket from the outside at a decent rate?? Should be a good game.
That's the reason for my nonchalance regarding win/lose on Monday eve.
I think if you’re addressing the differences between this year and last, it makes sense to acknowledge a strong floor general. There’s no skirting around the fact that Paige can and does control the offense, so I thought Dawn was just pointing it out.
UConn got beat by all the good teams they played last year, and then started looking good again against the AAC - a conference made up of bad teams we NEVER lost a game to in seven years. I'm concerned that the glow our 29-point victory over Marquette (a team who lost to today to DePaul, who we have beaten by 23 and 33) has us (the fans) a bit overconfident leading up to our game vs South Carolina - an actual legitimate contender.
She meant absolutely NOTHING bad. In the context of the conversation her point was that UConn was a different team and the biggest difference was Paige. Had she said nothing else it WOULD have been a slight on CD because it would have inferred that CD was what held you back.
So you don’t subscribe to the theory that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior? I know that its been proven not to neccessariy be accurate (when ND beat UConn 3 times one year, but lost to them the 4th time in the NC game), If they beat us on our home floor, you don’t think they’d enter that game with a little more confidence on a neutral court, knowing they just handled us a month ago?
And if you think teams can’t improve and past results become future results we just disagree. I believe I caveated my reply with we’ll never know, unspoken was the fact that I am well aware of the level of competition you choose to lecture about.
Frankly, I am not a big fan of predicting, I consider the “any given day“ the absolute beauty of sports. As for confidence, I know this sounds pompous as heck, but I never lacked for it and never gained or lost it based on a past performance. I thought I was going to win every game I ever played in, of course the reality wasn’t close to that. Every game is different and in the ”now”, not in the past. The overwhelming majority of players know that and every coach better or they shouldn’t be on the sidelines.
I agree with your points, however this fan is certainly not overconfident. If SC is able to limit Bueckers’ scoring, UConn’s got serious problems. Against real defense, I don’t think UConn has the shooters to fill the gap. I think they need at least 25 from PB to win.
Would probably never have lost a NBE game in 7 years either.
And probably won’t for the next 7 years.
I wonder how much the buyout would be if a real conference finally wanted UConn
Everyone knows football dictates conference affiliation, just the way it is.
They should make it so teams can join any conference they want rather than have all sports in the same conference.
Not at UConn. The move to the NBE killed football and made any possible move to a better conference impossible.
Football was dead at Uconn long before they moved back to the BE. I am sure there were other factors but the poor football program was part of why they were never invited to a P5 conference.
