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StorrsCentral said:
How many times have you seen Bueckers play this year? She is stronger and better than she was as a freshmen. She is always double teamed, she plays the 4 on defense which means she is being beat up by forwards, not guards. She is hitting 55% of her shots, and Dawn herself said that she will be an Olympian. As far as Edwards, again you haven't seen enough of her. I don't care what you say. I would take those two any day for my team. You can't make statements like that without seeing them play more than once, geez. Oh yeah, you can say anything you want about the quality of the BE, but the SEC, other than LSU and SC, sure aren't much better.
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I watched the NC State, Texas, UNC, and SC games. And in the 3 losses, Paige definitely wasn't the best guard on the team. So I'm not that interested in how she dominated a bunch of awful BEast teams, but she did not shine in the big games this year. She did in the past, and I had no problem with her getting POY as a freshman because she came up big when UConn needed her, but that has not been the case this year.

Edited to add: If there was an SEC/BEast challenge this year in order of finish (SC-UConn, LSU-Creighton, Ole Miss-SJU, Alabama-Marquette, etc.) I would pic the SEC to win 10-0 and the bookies would have the SEC team as the favorite in every single one.

And since you brought up that I sometimes post on the BY, I'll say the exact same thing here (again) that I said over there. Paige should not be an All American this year.

Edited to add: saw the ND game too. And Paige was far from the best guard (behind Hidalgo who dominated the game on both ends and Citron who caused her to have one of her most inefficent games of the season)
 
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StorrsCentral said:
How many times have you seen Bueckers play this year? She is stronger and better than she was as a freshmen. She is always double teamed, she plays the 4 on defense which means she is being beat up by forwards, not guards. She is hitting 55% of her shots, and Dawn herself said that she will be an Olympian. As far as Edwards, again you haven't seen enough of her. F--k this, I don't care what you say. I would take those two any day for my team. You can't make statements like that without seeing them play more than once, geez. Oh yeah, you can say anything you want about the quality of the BE, but the SEC, other than LSU and SC, sure aren't much better.
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Well, take Uconn out of the BE and I think there are several teams from the SEC outside of SC and LSU that would run through that conference with ease. What that means is that there are teams in the SEC outside of the big two who can beat most teams on any given night, and when you have to play those teams 16 times in a season you start to understand the difference in the conferences,

The SEC will send 7-8 teams to the tourney, the BE will send 3 and only 2 deserve to go truthfully. There is a huge difference. Side note, if PB is always double teamed as you say, and Edwards is always double or triple teamed in your own words, who is guarding the other 3 Uconn players?
 
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Rooster1 said:
Well, take Uconn out of the BE and I think there are several teams from the SEC outside of SC and LSU that would run through that conference with ease. What that means is that there are teams in the SEC outside of the big two who can beat most teams on any given night, and when you have to play those teams 16 times in a season you start to understand the difference in the conferences,

The SEC will send 7-8 teams to the tourney, the BE will send 3 and only 2 deserve to go truthfully. There is a huge difference. Side note, if PB is always double teamed as you say, and Edwards is always double or triple teamed in your own words, who is guarding the other 3 Uconn players?
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I do know that Shade took about fifteen open shots when they play Sc and made about two. Still you can't double team but one player most of the time and the one you leave open is usually that teams worse offensive player.
 
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Rooster1 said:
Well, take Uconn out of the BE and I think there are several teams from the SEC outside of SC and LSU that would run through that conference with ease. What that means is that there are teams in the SEC outside of the big two who can beat most teams on any given night, and when you have to play those teams 16 times in a season you start to understand the difference in the conferences,

The SEC will send 7-8 teams to the tourney, the BE will send 3 and only 2 deserve to go truthfully. There is a huge difference. Side note, if PB is always double teamed as you say, and Edwards is always double or triple teamed in your own words, who is guarding the other 3 Uconn players?
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It doesn't matter, they can't make shots even when they are uncovered. Watch one of their games and you will see.
 
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StorrsCentral said:
It doesn't matter, they can't make shots even when they are uncovered. Watch one of their games and you will see.
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I watch almost every Uconn game. I get your frustrations with the two freshmen starters, they were forced into starting roles before they were ready. Both are really talented obviously but it’s the rare freshman player that excels in year one. This season has seen many freshman across the country do extremely well, and Shade has had her moments, but those two are not in the same league as a Hidalgo or a JuJu as examples.

The main problem at UConn which their fans gloss over is that the other players on the bench, who also were AA type recruits have not panned out. They were recruiting misses. CGA missed in his assessments on several players that he now only begrudgingly plays and even then none of them play meaningful minutes. Everyone understands about the injuries, but nobody knows what the freshman center from overseas would have done, she could be a miss as well, we won’t know until next year. Ice was supposed to be amazing also, remember?

Some coaches are really good at not making bad assessments in recruiting. I know of one in particular.
 
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Rooster1 said:
I watch almost every Uconn game.
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Shade: shooting 49.4%
Arnold: shooting 47%
Muhl: shooting 48%
Samuels: shooting 40.1%
Brady: shooting 43%
DeBerry: shooting 37.5%

The irony is that other than Aubrey Griffith (54%), this is higher than the rest of the injured players from this season. Then you have Patterson (who wasn't particularly good last year) and El Afy (the freshman whose legend has grown so much that she's practically Breanna Stewart Part 2...but only as long as she's injured).

The part that's most mind boggling is despite playing in a weak conference and winning their games by a gazillion points, he still won't play his bench much.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Shade: shooting 49.4%
Arnold: shooting 47%
Muhl: shooting 48%
Samuels: shooting 40.1%
Brady: shooting 43%
DeBerry: shooting 37.5%

The irony is that other than Aubrey Griffith (54%), this is higher than the rest of the injured players from this season. Then you have Patterson (who wasn't particularly good last year) and El Afy (the freshman whose legend has grown so much that she's practically Breanna Stewart Part 2...but only as long as she's injured).

The part that's most mind boggling is despite playing in a weak conference and winning their games by a gazillion points, he still won't play his bench much.
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Some good average there. I think a lot of their problem is rebounding against better team same as Tennessee. They can beat the Big East bunch as the league lost a lot from last season.
 
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Ladyvolfan4life said:
Anybody else think Elizabeth Kitley is overrated?! She plays so soft.
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Me. Have never seen the appeal. I have no use for 6’6” with no back to the basket moves. Beautiful face up jumper but that’s her only good move.

Any post with size that makes her off balance even a little shuts her down.
 
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Amb3096 said:
Shade: shooting 49.4%
Arnold: shooting 47%
Muhl: shooting 48%
Samuels: shooting 40.1%
Brady: shooting 43%
DeBerry: shooting 37.5%

The irony is that other than Aubrey Griffith (54%), this is higher than the rest of the injured players from this season. Then you have Patterson (who wasn't particularly good last year) and El Afy (the freshman whose legend has grown so much that she's practically Breanna Stewart Part 2...but only as long as she's injured).

The part that's most mind boggling is despite playing in a weak conference and winning their games by a gazillion points, he still won't play his bench much.
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Not too many options. Brady has seen minutes, except the last game. Must have done something bad in practice, only played her because of foul troubles. He is trying to give minutes to Samuels, but her head game isn't ready yet. DeBerry, forget about her. She has had tons of chances the last few years to help us with the injuries, but she seems to be in a cloud out there. She was highly recruited. Bettencourt was snagged from a Junior college last year at the eleventh hour for guard depth. She wasn't recruited, just there for the pickings. I do wish Geno would give her more time on the court as she plays hard and is pretty competent. We could use more of her, but he is just trying to get the chemistry right, and playing the others more to get the experience. In the past he has only played 7 for the tournament anyway, unfortunately they aren't the 7 of choice. As far as El Afy ,yes, there is high expectations. My fear is that she ends up like Brady, a player we thought could back up Edwards. Very disappointed in her but is slowly getting better.
 
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StorrsCentral said:
Not too many options. Brady has seen minutes, except the last game. Must have done something bad in practice, only played her because of foul troubles. He is trying to give minutes to Samuels, but her head game isn't ready yet. DeBerry, forget about her. She has had tons of chances the last few years to help us with the injuries, but she seems to be in a cloud out there. She was highly recruited. Bettencourt was snagged from a Junior college last year at the eleventh hour for guard depth. She wasn't recruited, just there for the pickings. I do wish Geno would give her more time on the court as she plays hard and is pretty competent. We could use more of her, but he is just trying to get the chemistry right, and playing the others more to get the experience. In the past he has only played 7 for the tournament anyway, unfortunately they aren't the 7 of choice. As far as El Afy ,yes, there is high expectations. My fear is that she ends up like Brady, a player we thought could back up Edwards. Very disappointed in her but is slowly getting better.
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But the point is that UCOnn has options, but Geno opts not to use them for no reason. He could easily play DeBerry, Brady and Samuels 20+ min/game during BEast games because UConn is still a level above. But he chooses not to. So they aren't game ready for the times that they play a talented team. So yes, Bueckers plays the 4 not out of necessity but out of choice for Geno. The short roster is self inflicted, and he's not doing much to make them more useful.
 
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