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Message: [QUOTE="huskyd, post: 2044689, member: 6488"] When I first read Sally Jenkins' encomium in the Washington Post after the Huskies' 100th win, I appreciated her acknowledgment of the feat and of her general raising of the profile of WCBB. This morning I re-read it and had some other thoughts. Her essential point is TRUE: UConn's game is all “about method, approach, and [I]above all playing the game as a kind of ethic[/I].” [ital. mine]. The adjectives she uses are also mostly true: there is a “flow” to the [UConn] game that is “eye-pleasing,” buffed and polished. She notes that there is “something in the teaching method” of Coach, which emphasizes “the importance of each little detail.” All true. But Sally occasionally drifts into misstatements and overstatements. For one, the Husky win streak is not the longest in the history of the game. She describes the UConn game as never having “a drifting move, never a sluggish foot or hand.” Is that even possible? She quotes Kia's question “How many people can get something consistently, exactly right for 30 straight minutes without making a mistake?” Sally answers, “only one.” Really? (And what about the other 10 minutes?) The problem here is that the Huskies, while a great team and an even greater program with aspirations for perfection, [U]have not yet reached perfection[/U]. No one has, and, according to Geno, no one ever will. At the end, Sally gets it right: the Huskies' game is an intrinsically beautiful thing to behold, and all true sports fans should avail themselves of the chance to watch it. It is not, however, perfect. That's on the agenda. And thanks for the swell piece, Sally. [/QUOTE]

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