Xavier Postgame Thread

[Steelerone]

Maybe Geno's time has come. It eventually comes to all the greats. Pat Summit, with her style of coaching, would not have survived with today's players and game, no matter how great she was. Maybe Geno should go into the ESPN Studio next season and make a ton of money, without the stress. To scream at Caroline Ducharme during last night's game, might have been the straw that broke the camel's back, as it relates to Geno.

Are you serious? Geno has screamed at players who were legends. Diana, Jennifer, Rebecca, and more than you and I can count. The only thing that has changed for Geno is that he is basically playing a starting team with two or three players who would normally be sitting on the bench. I can guarantee you that if South Carolina were playing without Boston and two other starters that they would not be undefeated. To quote the old adage, "How quickly people forger."

 

[Papa33]

"Teams are catching UCONN with bad D switching or no communication on the switch."
Sad to say, that's too true, and it costs us dearly.

 

[HopJim]

Watched the game again, that that old saying, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of very good" applies. UConn in the 1st and 3rd quarters had double digit leads that were expanding before putting in subs. While lead vanished quickly, you never got the idea that UConn was not in control.

 

[OldSchooler]

About that technical foul . . .

Disclaimer: I haven't watched the entire game yet, but I did watch the 3rd Q sequence surrounding the technical. The announcers seemed totally clueless as to what was happening, even after watching the replay. After the refs huddled to watch the replay, and called an offensive PF on the Xavier player and the tech on Lou, the announcers were still in the dark, thinking that Lou had been whistled for being too physical in retaliation, which was not the case. I think the tech was for what Lou SAID, not DID. (She was actually whistled after she pointed at the Xavier player in a threatening way.) But that was never explained . . . at least not during that sequence. At one point, after the refs made their decision, one of them apparently came across the floor to the announcers' table (there was no camera on them, but we could hear the ref's voice, so he was evidently explaining their decision to the broadcasters). But the explanation was only in broad terms, i.e., personal foul (still non-shooting) on the Xavier player, and the technical on Lou, but THERE WAS NEVER ANY EXPLANATION OF WHY THE TECH WAS CALLED.

Here's my problem. Broadcast announcers rarely get a chance to converse with officials during a game. But here was one of those rare exceptions -- the ref had come across the floor to the table specifically to explain their decision. These announcers are (or should be) trained as reporters, and it should have been incumbent on them, at that moment, to ask the ref the reason for the technical foul, so they could explain it to their listening audience. They missed that golden opportunity, and so it probably wasn't until the game was over that we realized Lou was whistled for foul language.