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I've been thinking the last time i saw a Uconn team play this poorly and I don't recall.....it's very depressing..For 35 minutes the other night they fought till they ran out of gas and were beaten by a better team..to have not 1 but 2 number 1 ranked high school players and another ranked number 2 and play like that last night is atrocious! They should be ashamed..y ou can have all the talent in the world but to not play hard..there is no excuse..Molly albeit with a lot less talent is the only one that showed any hustle at all..Do they have to have an AA on the team to show them how to play?The shots nay not fall and they can get phantom calls against them sometimes but as long as they play hard and hustle what more can you ask for..this does not even resemble any Uconn team I've been rooting for since Rebecca Lobo.
 
OMG - there are many other awful games.
  • Diana & Co at Providence. Geno benched the starters and put the walk-ons in in the first half
  • The Dream Team (DT, Sue, Swin, Tamika, Asjha) at VA Tech - the phantom flagrant foul game
  • Svet, Shea & team vs Iowa State in the Sweet 16
  • No Carolina kicking Charde’s team’s butts in the Civic Center
  • A hideous double digit loss to Michigan State. I think that was in Hartford too
I’ve made myself forget any others but there are others
 
Nah, not at all.

Offensively they weren't clicking. But they did shoot 46% overall. Which isn't horrible. Not up to the 50% we'd like to see. 32% on 3pt which is also below avg. but again not horrible. 13 T/Os isn't too bad. 13 Assists isn't too good.

Defensively, really not that bad. Only gave up 56 pts. 33%/30% isn't bad at all defensively. We out rebounded them. Gave up a lot of FT's though, that wasn't good. That's probably what kept the game closer.

Overall it was just a slow, slug it out type game. Not pretty. But there have been other games were we looked/played worse.
 
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I was at maybe the worst collapse ever vs Duke in Hartford and DT was our star. Decent lead, team gets rattled and turns the ball over several times near the end and the Aussie kid for Duke hit a long 3 at the buzzer to beat us.
 
Those of us who are scientists or engineers appreciate how if in a complex system a few components are a little off, the system overall can malfunction by quite a bit. 95% to the power of 5 makes the overall system 25% off peak performance. A team that should be scoring in the mid 80's underperforms by 20 points.

There is still time to get this machine back to peak performance. So no doom and gloom!
 
Topdawg said:
Those of us who are scientists or engineers appreciate how if in a complex system a few components are a little off, the system overall can malfunction by quite a bit. 95% to the power of 5 makes the overall system 25% off peak performance. A team that should be scoring in the mid 80's underperforms by 20 points.

There is still time to get this machine back to peak performance. So no doom and gloom!
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According to Massey the infamous Tulane game, February 2017, was worse. We won by 3, and were expected to win by 29. Last night we were expected to win by 25 and won by 12.
 
Give them some credit. Ugly? Yes! My wife will attest to the fact that I was very vocal and ranted at the TV, trying to help them "get it together". Bottom line, they had an off night all the way around. However, when it was nearing end of game and Memphis looked to threaten, our ladies made critical shots AND foul shots! My advice to players and coaches, don't forget this one but move on.
 
A top-ranked UConn team lost to lowly St. Johns at home in 2012 I believe. It broke their 99 home game losing streak - thats why I remember. The 2nd half was abysmal. UConn couldnt make a shot to save their lives and lost on a last-second 3-pointer. That was pretty bad...
 
BostonBay said:
A top-ranked UConn team lost to lowly St. Johns at home in 2012 I believe. It broke their 99 home game losing streak - thats why I remember. The 2nd half was abysmal. UConn couldnt make a shot to save their lives and lost on a last-second 3-pointer. That was pretty bad...
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Was that the BEast final?

that reminds me - the loss to Villanova in the BEast final at Rutgers was damn fugly, too. Didn’t stop the Huskies from a national championship though
 
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The St. Johns game was bad--we almost never lose to teams outside the top 25. But St. Johns was not lowly that year. They ended up in the top 20 and did well in the NCAA tournament. But a loss is a horrible outcome and we were really good that year and it was at home. Massey thought we should have won that game by 22. So it was probably our worst game of the decade--only loss to a team outside the top 10 that was at home. Our other losses to similarly ranked teams, like Stanford in December 2014, were away.
 
I will just say...watching all those 3 pointers double rim and out...makes me think you drop a few of those..play defense in the first half like they did in the second half and UConn wins by 30 and Memphis has trouble breaking 50. I'm just sayin'
 
I think games like this help improve the players more than the 20+ point blow-outs. Digging deep late in the game to pull out the victory will provide confidence to do it again when it counts. I'd rather have our warts exposed now while there is time to work on fixing things.
 
HuskyNan said:
OMG - there are many other awful games.
  • Diana & Co at Providence. Geno benched the starters and put the walk-ons in in the first half
  • The Dream Team (DT, Sue, Swin, Tamika, Asjha) at VA Tech - the phantom flagrant foul game
  • Svet, Shea & team vs Iowa State in the Sweet 16
  • No Carolina kicking Charde’s team’s butts in the Civic Center
  • A hideous double digit loss to Michigan State. I think that was in Hartford too
I’ve made myself forget any others but there are others
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All true..made myslf forget them i guess...i was even at that Providence game
 
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You have to take the team that was involved into account. The current team is fair-to-middlin' at best. I remember other teams with more really good players who stunk up the joint for extended periods of time. That St. John's game, to be sure. A Rutgers game at Rutgers one year during the glory years and at the end of the first half UConn had something like 20 points. They pulled out the win, but OMG it was awful. A game that a good UConn team played against Stanford that was a similar struggle, again with UConn pulling it out at the end. IMHO,both those games were worse because the uConn teams were better. This year's team is capable of playing below its maximum at almost any time.
 
BostonBay said:
A top-ranked UConn team lost to lowly St. Johns at home in 2012 I believe. It broke their 99 home game losing streak - thats why I remember. The 2nd half was abysmal. UConn couldnt make a shot to save their lives and lost on a last-second 3-pointer. That was pretty bad...
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We were also missing Stef in that game. I think she was out sick.
 
BostonBay said:
A top-ranked UConn team lost to lowly St. Johns at home in 2012 I believe. It broke their 99 home game losing streak - thats why I remember. The 2nd half was abysmal. UConn couldnt make a shot to save their lives and lost on a last-second 3-pointer. That was pretty bad...
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99 home game winning streak.:D
 
Ozimoto said:
These kids aren't robots. Stuff happens. They pulled it together and won.
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I'm very interested to see how our girls play/execute tomorrow against UCF. We didn't expect Memphis to be as competitive as they were. Memphis played UP to their level of competition, while UConn played DOWN to theirs, trailing by 6 at the end of the 1st quarter.

Memphis almost played UConn even for 30 minutes, as UConn led by 2 at the half 35-33. Other teams scout us as we scout them. Memphis did some things that upset their rhythm and flow. Memphis was moderately successful to the point other teams may try to employ some of the schemes and tactics they did.

Last year UCF was not a prolific 3 point shooting team. Hopefully that hasn't changed. “It’s going to be identical to Memphis” Auriemma said. “They’re a very similar team, plays very similar stuff. And we’re on the road. It’s our fourth game in what, seven days? Hopefully we’ll shoot the ball better and hopefully we’ll play better defense. Hopefully we’ll run better offense. Hopefully we’ll get more production from our bench.”

Dangerfield predicted the UCF matchup would be, as customary, a “dogfight." That’s what life is like for the Huskies in their final year in the AAC, with the target on their back and on the road against one of the conference’s better squads. “They’re going be like that even more because teams understand this is our last year in the conference,” Dangerfield said. “They already want to beat us, so it’s just more fuel to their fire.”

Now, what happens IF UConn plays another carbon copy Memphis game Thursday? Massey has UConn winning 69-53.

Can UConn win by the 13 point margin predicted by Massey, and take control of the game from the tip? Or will they struggle again to keep pace with the Golden Knights (14-1/5-0), who will no doubt play like they have nothing to lose..............which they don't.

Will ONO regain her form of double digit points and rebounds? Will Geno get any production from the 5th starter (whoever starts) spot? Will he get any production from the bench? Will Irwin and Griffin take more shots to help the team whether they go in or not, taking some pressure off the BIG 3?

Can ONO stay on the floor and out of foul trouble? Will she do a better job of guarding the rim? There were too many uncontested layups for Memphis.

Lots of things to look for tomorrow night. It would be refreshing to see not only some individual growth and improvement, but overall team improvement as well.
 
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November 17, 2014. Stanford wins 88-86. Nobody could stop the Stanford guards. Who was on the team? Stewart, Jefferson, Tuck, KML, Stokes, Nurse, Gabby W, Chong. I believe Tuck and Nurse fouled out.
 
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