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pilight
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myrtle
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Posted: 07/28/12 6:13 pm ::: |
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and watching this makes it even more puzzling why Erin Phillips is not on this team. Just stupid. And Graf just does stupid stuff during the game. Incomprehensible.
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Michelle89
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Luuuc #NATC
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Joe Foss
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Posted: 07/28/12 6:26 pm ::: |
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myrtle wrote: |
And Graf just does stupid stuff during the game. Incomprehensible. |
At least her shoes got good reviews.
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meegsz
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Richyyy
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Posted: 07/28/12 8:41 pm ::: |
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Luuuc wrote: |
Talk about a horror start for GB!
An Opals 3 point play and a Collins injury within the first 7 seconds |
Yes, that was not a good way to start. Collins tried to come back later, but eventually hobbled off again. Was still limping badly when she went back to the locker room after the game. On the bright side - especially for her family, who were sat right behind me - Rachel Vanderwal had her best game ever in a GB vest taking most of Collins's minutes.
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Lol at that travel from Batkovic before the buzzer shot |
There were several of us going rather loudly mental when the refs initially counted that basket. Never beat the buzzer in a million years.
Overall, I'm proud of our effort and performance in a lot of ways, but our offense in deplorable a lot of the time. We just couldn't work out ways to score, and it wasn't really due to great defense - we just don't run anything or have any particularly worthwhile options offensively. That said, the basic fact that LJ's shots fell while Leedham couldn't hit the back side of a barn all night made a huge difference. Admittedly, a lot of that was due to Leedham forcing tough shots while LJ was often pretty open though.
But if you heard someone screaming "Run something else! You've run that 40 times and it's worked none!" that was me. I guarantee that by now, every team in our group has seen the baseline screens we run to try to get the wings open on low cuts under the basket. It's old, and it stops working damn fast if it even works once.
And yes, the crowd was great. Proper GB-centric crowd, willing to scream and shout, but with a smattering of all the other countries to keep things interesting. Best crowd for a women's game I've ever encountered in this country by a mile. |
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p_d_swanson
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Posted: 07/29/12 12:50 am ::: |
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ClayK wrote: |
Great quote from Lisa Leslie "Lauren Jackson was by far the biggest trash talker I ever played against." |
In the Brazil-France game, I also enjoyed AMD crediting the year rika spent in Lisa's presence for turning her into the player she's become. And between LLL joking about how awful Cambage would look in the old Opals unitard and Annie making a blanket stereotype about Brazilians' emotional stability, Carolyn Peck has some stern competition for worst basketball analyst hired by NBC for these Games...
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scullyfu
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Posted: 07/29/12 1:27 am ::: |
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watched the replay of the canada v russia game. wow. what an ending. vintage becky.
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scullyfu
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Posted: 07/29/12 1:29 am ::: |
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p_d_swanson wrote: |
ClayK wrote: |
Great quote from Lisa Leslie "Lauren Jackson was by far the biggest trash talker I ever played against." |
In the Brazil-France game, I also enjoyed AMD crediting the year rika spent in Lisa's presence for turning her into the player she's become. And between LLL joking about how awful Cambage would look in the old Opals unitard and Annie making a blanket stereotype about Brazilians' emotional stability, Carolyn Peck has some stern competition for worst basketball analyst hired by NBC for these Games... |
i caught those same comments, p_d. after all these years, i'm still amazed. smh
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Michelle89
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Posted: 07/29/12 6:12 am ::: |
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Jayda Evans @JaydaEvans
"Lauren Jackson is biggest trash talker I've ever played against...Best way to handle trash-talker is to beat them"~@LisaLeslie #London2012 |
Laurens reaction on that
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lauren jackson @laurenej15
@JaydaEvans @LisaLeslie I'm calling bullshit. #enoughalready |
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Richyyy
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Posted: 07/29/12 6:15 am ::: |
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LJ and Julie Page slapped hands to say 'no hard feelings' immediately after the ref overreacted and called that double technical last night, by the way.
I'd have been a lot more upset about that silly call - whic fouled Page out - if it was still a contest at that point. |
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Posted: 07/29/12 9:20 am ::: |
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Ann Meyers and Carolyn Peck -- it's going to be a long two weeks.
I thought Leslie was pretty good, really, except for the Cambage comment.
And speaking of Liz, how exactly do you pronounce her name?
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Michelle89
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Posted: 07/29/12 9:27 am ::: |
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ClayK wrote: |
Ann Meyers and Carolyn Peck -- it's going to be a long two weeks.
I thought Leslie was pretty good, really, except for the Cambage comment.
And speaking of Liz, how exactly do you pronounce her name? |
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BCBG25
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Posted: 07/29/12 6:47 pm ::: |
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p_d_swanson wrote: |
ClayK wrote: |
Great quote from Lisa Leslie "Lauren Jackson was by far the biggest trash talker I ever played against." |
In the Brazil-France game, I also enjoyed AMD crediting the year rika spent in Lisa's presence for turning her into the player she's become. And between LLL joking about how awful Cambage would look in the old Opals unitard and Annie making a blanket stereotype about Brazilians' emotional stability, Carolyn Peck has some stern competition for worst basketball analyst hired by NBC for these Games... |
Vintage AMD. And to add insult to injury, you're missing "Shoo Birds" guy calling the games here. I would imagine with so many former UConn players, the obvious choice would've been Lobo. Which wouldn't hurt either as she's much better than those two.
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myrtle
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Posted: 07/29/12 10:18 pm ::: |
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JACKOWACKO wrote: |
I must admit, her Olympic look is kind of scary. Her hair seemed incredibly bleached, and the lipstick and eyebrows...wow. Intimidating. |
My brother doesn't like her just because he says she 'looks' evil. lol.
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Michelle89
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pilight
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