The Dolson Conundrum

It was on the first or second Geno Show of the year.

Great - we'll let DD do the digging and he can report back at his convenience.

Nope. Did quick google and no luck.

I'll keep looking. Maybe someone else can find it?

Well, perhaps he should have said, "I couldn't think more highly of Stef", that way, we can look at it any way we want.

I remember the quote but not so clear on the context. I do seem to remember that it seemed genuine and I took it at face value. I thought he believed that and so did most of us here.

I know it wasn't a throw away like "she couldn't guard a chair".

I haven't done the research, but the comment was roughly, "There's a center down at Baylor is pretty good, but Stef has got to be the second best center in the country." It wasn't a throwaway comment. He stated that it was based on her improvement over the summer (including her conditioning) and her knowledge of the offense.

Like many such predictions (even by coaches), it didn't work out that way. I am apparently the only one to see a similarity between Stef and Meighan Simmons of Tennessee, both of whom had surprisingly good freshman years and were expected (by coaches and hometown fans) to be more reliable as sophomores than they have turned out to be. It happens.

Tina as a freshman and sophomore had more rebounds than Stef, and was more talented than Stef all around, but never had a grasp of the offense that would allow her to make passes from the high post to set up others. She showed enormous improvement when she matured personally, and it really began to show around the middle of her junior year.

Stef has some maturing to do, mainly just to take it more seriously (less as "just a game") than she has thus far. She still has a major upside when she gets it together. I don't think she will ever be the rebounder that Tina was, and probably will never be an Olympic player, but she will be very good -- at least at the Schumacher / J. Moore / K. Wolters level.

Interesting comparison to Wolters. A different era, but she dominated the paint. Once she got in shape and toughened up there was nobody better. I used to love that baby hook.

I think Stef has hit the Soft wall.........She played BB all summer and she traveled to Europe twice once with UCONN. Her body is tired and the week from the XL ND game has 5 or 6 days rest.........All she needs is her batteries recharged

Her comments of late suggest that she knows what she has to do. That's a good omen.
She will improve; she loves the game too much not to.

Did he repeat that again? If not, it's a throwaway comment. And not something that poor Dolson has to play up to all year long. Even now, I see posters using that statement against her.

Great teams have inside -outside balance.

Remember that he made this comment very early on. Maybe he didn't repeat it because as the season wore on it became obvious that she wasn't progressing the way he expected.

Exactly. So why should she have to deal with the fan's latching on to that early season statement that he didn't repeat?

I think it is fodder for those who wish to bash her.