01-30-2023, 11:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-30-2023, 11:41 PM by cardfan1996.)
Cam should be runaway Defensive POY in the PAC-12 and nationally. She and Pili are probably close in PAC-12 POY which Cam probably leads but Stanford needs to finish #1 to secure it. She probably needs much more effective marketing to collect what she deserves on a national scale (NDPOY).
Sorry “group projects” are triggering for me personally especially when everyone is not required and expected to “pull their own weight.” I didn’t find the humor. But also it’s less about that specific quote and more about it confirming my own biases. It’s like when Agnes finally made an open layup and a 3-pter a few games ago (maybe the UCLA game), and the Stanford bench literally went nuts. The announcers said the bench was reacting like Stanford won a national championship. I kid you not. It was the sort of over the top reaction you have if you sign up a kid whose one wish is to make a basket in a game and the other team allows them to score, and everyone stands up on either side of the aisle and cheers. This is suppose to be real Power 5 women’s basketball with elite skillful athletes at every position. It’s not like the movie Rudy where the bar is set low. The growth of the women’s game depends on the bar being set extraordinarily high and athletes meeting and exceeding those expectations. To me, it is bigger than just one team, one coach or one conference. But it is the responsibility of every team, every coach and every conference to push the game forward and evolve it and take it to the next level. I watch both men’s and women’s college and professional basketball and I really want to see the women’s game evolve to a much higher place in the next 10 years. It’s been stuck in neutral for a decade in my opinion. And maybe gone backwards. As I told someone last year, those Maya Moore, Tina Charles- lead UConn teams would probably beat last year’s S.Carolina by 20 pts. They would have beat last year’s version of UConn with Paige on one leg by 40 pts.
Sorry “group projects” are triggering for me personally especially when everyone is not required and expected to “pull their own weight.” I didn’t find the humor. But also it’s less about that specific quote and more about it confirming my own biases. It’s like when Agnes finally made an open layup and a 3-pter a few games ago (maybe the UCLA game), and the Stanford bench literally went nuts. The announcers said the bench was reacting like Stanford won a national championship. I kid you not. It was the sort of over the top reaction you have if you sign up a kid whose one wish is to make a basket in a game and the other team allows them to score, and everyone stands up on either side of the aisle and cheers. This is suppose to be real Power 5 women’s basketball with elite skillful athletes at every position. It’s not like the movie Rudy where the bar is set low. The growth of the women’s game depends on the bar being set extraordinarily high and athletes meeting and exceeding those expectations. To me, it is bigger than just one team, one coach or one conference. But it is the responsibility of every team, every coach and every conference to push the game forward and evolve it and take it to the next level. I watch both men’s and women’s college and professional basketball and I really want to see the women’s game evolve to a much higher place in the next 10 years. It’s been stuck in neutral for a decade in my opinion. And maybe gone backwards. As I told someone last year, those Maya Moore, Tina Charles- lead UConn teams would probably beat last year’s S.Carolina by 20 pts. They would have beat last year’s version of UConn with Paige on one leg by 40 pts.