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myrtle
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| McLean looks like she's been shot anytime anyone touches her. |
LOL-she is emulating Dungee. Does Chelsea always play like this. She acts like she's running into a water buffalo and bouncing off them, every time she tries to drive. She is killing us and we may lose, but she could have 5 offensive fouls right now. |
This season, from what I’ve watched, Dungee is very adept at drawing contact, and selling it—very Bonner-esque. |
or like DT. It's impressive. She does manage to avoid hitting people head on most of the time so by wiggling past it's a defensive foul even if she initiates the contact.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 7:49 pm ::: |
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| Interesting time for the refs to decide not to call the fouls when Arky drives.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 7:51 pm ::: |
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| What a fittingly disappointing end to a very disappointing game.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 7:53 pm ::: |
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| The better executing and better coached team won. I like watching heroic individual performances. Wow, Dungee, and semi-wow, Bueckers. So, I enjoyed this game. |
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:03 pm ::: |
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But Bueckers really a warrior when it counts. She just needed a little more help.
Westbrook outstanding from three.
But the inside play, which should have shone against this small team, was just yikes.
Has Ododa had a decent game ever against a team with a pulse?
I love Edwards. She just needs to learn some non-fouling techniques.
Still don't see the love for Griffin. Yeah, she's athletic, but what else?
And McLean...those flops were really too much. Even though she got two of them to work, if the refs see her very much, they won't 'fall' for that BS too often. Other than that she looks like Griffin redux.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:08 pm ::: |
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| McLean looks like she's been shot anytime anyone touches her. |
LOL-she is emulating Dungee. Does Chelsea always play like this. She acts like she's running into a water buffalo and bouncing off them, every time she tries to drive. She is killing us and we may lose, but she could have 5 offensive fouls right now. |
Agreed the gal can draw some strange fouls smh
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:10 pm ::: |
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| UConn's not used to close games, are they? Maybe it's just confirmation bias speaking, but it seems like UConn's reaction to a game that's tight late is essentially "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH why are they still here WHAT DO WHAT DO?"
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:16 pm ::: |
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| That being said, that should have been a shot clock violation at the end on Arkansas and Connecticut should have had more time to put together a possession off a dead ball turnover that one presumes would have been slightly more organized than... that.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:22 pm ::: |
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| UConn's not used to close games, are they? Maybe it's just confirmation bias speaking, but it seems like UConn's reaction to a game that's tight late is essentially "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH why are they still here WHAT DO WHAT DO?" |
Geno's record in close and OT games is mediocre . . . at most.
Myrtle correct that UConn's bigs were either effete or stupidly foul prone and hence completely ineffective. What a deplorable paint attack against a shorter team. But credit Ark's swarming iron interior defense for forcing much of the UConn paint anemia.
Ark then wins a three-point shootout 13-12. |
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:23 pm ::: |
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| Congratulations, Coach Neighbors. Great team win.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:25 pm ::: |
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| This UConn team does not have the focus and discipline I’m used to seeing from a Geno-coached team. Having said that, Ark is very underrated. Neighbors has done a great job with them.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:42 pm ::: |
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| I'm glad we got a L outta the way..there may be a more before the NCAAs, but it's back to the drawing board. We really need Saylor! I love Nika, but she's another Ticha in terms of excellent ball-handling (hurts the team with lack of offensive mindset). ONO needs to be more aggressive and Edwards needs to stay outta foul trouble! Props to Coach Neighbors and squad, they were ready and they made their runs.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 8:51 pm ::: |
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Geno postgame press conference. He's mostly quietly analytical and seemed deliberately avoiding any negative snark about the team.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 9:04 pm ::: |
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| This UConn team does not have the focus and discipline I’m used to seeing from a Geno-coached team. Having said that, Ark is very underrated. Neighbors has done a great job with them. |
Agree-
We have virtually a brand new team. The only two players with real UCONN experience, just aren't natural alpha/leader types.
*A few observations:
1. I bet Arkansas never shoots like that again. Literally everything they threw up, went in.
2. Dungee schooled us, but her theatrics are just very off-putting to me. The constant throwing her body around, trying to draw ridiculous fouls
3. We miss Makurat. She is just a much smarter and knows our offense way better than Aubrey. I love Aubrey as an energy player off the bench, but in our two games against ranked teams, Aubrey has taken WAAAAAYYYY too many jumpers early in the shot clock. Like, she has NEVER EVER EVER taken those shots in her life at UCONN, but she is now? Odd.
4. ONO could've controlled the paint, but the early triple teaming of her just threw her off, she turned the ball over because she is a TERRIBLE passer out of double teams and she DOES NOT KEEP THE BALL ABOVE HER HEAD, EVER. She could've had 20 & 15 tonight. I shutter to think of what'll happen to her against Boston. Ouch.
5. Chirstyn is a total enigma to me. She has all the talent in the world, so I'm guessing its between her ears. That ND game her freshman year was just a lie. She bricks layups, her jumpers are WAYYYY OFF when they're off, and she can't make a FT to save her life. She makes freshman mistakes every single game.
6. Evina-love her.
7. We lost, yes, but the freshman are good, this was good experience and Paige is a STAR.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 9:12 pm ::: |
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Westbrook and Bueckers postgame presser. E clearly thinks the defense lost the game. Pistol looks shot.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 9:20 pm ::: |
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Last thing:
I absolutely HATE these black uniforms we seem to wear at every away game against a ranked team the last 3 years. Black is 0 part of the school colors and I just don't even understand why we have them. Is that something Nike is making us do?
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| Posted: 01/28/21 9:48 pm ::: |
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Last thing:
I absolutely HATE these black uniforms we seem to wear at every away game against a ranked team the last 3 years. Black is 0 part of the school colors and I just don't even understand why we have them. Is that something Nike is making us do? |
This! Lol
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| Posted: 01/28/21 10:07 pm ::: |
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Last thing:
I absolutely HATE these black uniforms we seem to wear at every away game against a ranked team the last 3 years. Black is 0 part of the school colors and I just don't even understand why we have them. Is that something Nike is making us do? |
This! Lol |
HA! Do you hate them, too?
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| Posted: 01/28/21 10:16 pm ::: |
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Last thing:
I absolutely HATE these black uniforms we seem to wear at every away game against a ranked team the last 3 years. Black is 0 part of the school colors and I just don't even understand why we have them. Is that something Nike is making us do? |
My first thought was "why is UConn cosplaying as Providence?" and given tonight's results, I maintain that stance.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 10:34 pm ::: |
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| Can somebody make sense of why UConn didn’t call a timeout straight away after securing the reb? Having 4 secs is better than 0.3.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 10:39 pm ::: |
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Last thing:
I absolutely HATE these black uniforms we seem to wear at every away game against a ranked team the last 3 years. Black is 0 part of the school colors and I just don't even understand why we have them. Is that something Nike is making us do? |
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HA! Do you hate them, too? |
Yes! Have hated them since they debuted against ND a few years back. Gotta stick to blue or white.
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| Posted: 01/28/21 10:40 pm ::: |
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| Can somebody make sense of why UConn didn’t call a timeout straight away after securing the reb? Having 4 secs is better than 0.3. |
I "think" they may have thought there was a shot clock violation, which was the case that Geno was pleading. You could tell Christyn wasn't sure as to whether she should stop and call time-out or heave a three-quarter shot.
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myrtle
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| Posted: 01/28/21 10:47 pm ::: |
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| Can somebody make sense of why UConn didn’t call a timeout straight away after securing the reb? Having 4 secs is better than 0.3. |
I "think" they may have thought there was a shot clock violation, which was the case that Geno was pleading. You could tell Christyn wasn't sure as to whether she should stop and call time-out or heave a three-quarter shot. |
even if there was a shot clock violation, she should have immediately called a TO. Part of the problem is UConn is not used to being in those situations so it's not high on their 'know-how-to' list. I sometimes wonder about Williams' smarts - but it's also up to the coaches to drill it in and it should have been mentioned in the TO immediately before that... I'm betting that Bueckers would have known what to do had she gotten the rebound.
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