I agree agree with your point, but originally a poster said why would someone start Paige at the point? One answer is it gets the most shooters on the floor at the same time. Another is that she's the best point guard on the team.
Oh, I think her best position is point guard by a wide margin. She sees things that other people don't see and this is the perfect person to be setting the offense. She is an amazing passer and can get the ball places others cannot. Plus, the fact that she is a scoring threat means that people have to cover her out to the arc and respect her ability to dribble drive to the basket. Often, she's going to draw double and that creates an open pass. I would suspect that she will probably end up a point guard in the WNBA.
It’s not about emulating SC or anyone else! Whatever Geno ends up doing, and I think given the incredible roster he has available, no one really has any idea what he‘ll do, it will be whatever he sees as the best path to #12! I think most are assuming that he will continue/revert to his perceived default which is to determine the top 7 players and ride them as far as they can go. However, I think this roster is so full of talent and redundancy (except for Jana) and that Geno himself is such a different man/coach than he was four or five years ago, that it would not surprise me in the least to see him actually live up to his oft stated commitment to play as many players as can force their way onto the court!
True dat, but I’m hoping we will begin to see Q moving into that role next season and thus giving Geno two game changers to work with!
Yes. Without a doubt. I hope Geno continues to play freshmen. This year 2 started and the 2 reserves off the bench were freshmen, but that was because there was no one else.
My guess is all 8 of yours in the first category with a few additions to the "definites". I would add Jana because she was seen practicing with the team in warmups before games, and it's been about a year since her injury by June. Azzi is also a maybe as I believe she must have been cleared for basketball activity if she was at Kelsey's DAWG class, and I think she was participating in warmups at one point? I'm also adding Chen since I think you forgot her, lol.
Yup, plus I sure hope there's a full 10 available for practices. Also totally agree about Q -- she needs to move into Aubrey's role this season. She's got the speed and the long arms, and the perimeter shooting is a huge plus. She just needs to ratchet up her defensive intensity and it will all come together for her. She's the sophomore I most want to see on the floor next season, and Jana is the freshman. So much curiosity about how they'll do.
I thought it was a 3.94 GPA or was that just for this year?
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IMO Geno is a slave to circumstance. Which I believe is that the players determine how separated they are between starter and the bench player. For example, any big game that is tight - Paige should automatically receive at least 35+ minutes. Her separation between her sub and her level warrants at least 35 minutes. She is too explosive / too great to be pulled for 5 minutes or more.
Well said.
UCONN should not try to emulate SOuth Carolina. UCONN has won 14 championships and been to a ridiculous number of final fours.
It's not about emulating anyone -- this meme is overdone. It's about building a dynasty and keeping it. Last season, Geno would have done the same thing as Dawn. Maybe she's imitating what she knows he would have done.
No way Geno with his team would have played a deep bench if his stars were healthy in tight games. She did her style because many of her players are about the same other that Cardoso. If Geno had a healthy lineup he would have had 3 all-Americans (Azzi included.). And as we saw he had no problem not giving Ice and even Amari many minutes (i.e. not working his low post bench) because he values "play your best."
I share most of your sentiments. But not this one. That quote is not a public statement of Paige’s, nor does it express any serious sentiment of hers. It’s a humorous attribution to her. I don’t know where you got this one from, but Geno has jokingly said she’s said stuff like this, for example after her first game back after her sophomore knee injury. Around the same time he also laughingly said in a presser “Of course Paige will have to compete for playing time when she comes back.” None of that was meant seriously.
1-- Don’t agree with your interpretation of what Paige said l. In a way it's a joke what Paige said but in another way it highlights that the stars track their minutes and want to play. She is jokingly reminding her coach. And Paige said this in her frosh year March 17th. There are reasons why players transfer and a lot has to do with minutes. There is no way a healthy guard that is fit and the #1 recruit is not going to be happy for not playing big minutes in a big game in her upper class year when she is among the league’s best. The link to google that shows the CT Post article - anyone can click on it if they want. While Geno’s job isn’t to make everyone happy, he will coach the manner he sees fit and the short bench with superstars has been his success. Maybe if he got a team with no CBB A/A’s he would do different.
As Pepe le Pew would say, "Le sigh."
Well, that reference is going to go whizzing over the heads of the bulk of the younger posters on the board.
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