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Obviously UConn is incredibly talented with a Big 3 of Bueckers, Fudd, and Strong. But the style and way they play is fun as hell to watch. Pace is so fast, great cutting, moment, the offensive is so crisp. They turn teams over.  We should strive to emulate a lot of these concepts in our own style of play. 

 A very anticlimactic ending to UCLAs great season. An embarrassing performance on the biggest stage. UCLA was outmatched from the start. Bueckers even had a very average game. Betts in tears on the bench. If you compare roster to roster, UCLA probably has just as much talent as UConn but you’d never know that watching the game.

Embarrassing loss for UCLA which was the #1 overall seed.   Even though I hate UConn, I’m not mad at the outcome because I’m not rooting for players who left our program.

I have it taped - I may watch a little. Another crazy box score. Betts had 26 points and the rest of UCLA 25.  I don’t love some of her recent comments since leaving - ok it didn’t work, fine but let it go. That said, it looks like she was the only positive thing in the game for UCLA.

UCLA with 12 more turnovers and 5 fewer rebounds = 8 fewer shots and 9 fewer free throws.
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Watched a half. She still looks a lot like she did with us, but with much more plying time. Good hands. Good footwork for her size though not very quick or explosive. Probably a better passer from the post now. Better patience in the post on offense maybe? But it’s a layup or nothing, and only 5 rebounds. It will be interesting to see how well she can translate it to the WNBA eventually against say a Jonquel Jones.

You see the Stanford fit issue clearly though. Tara would have had to design the entire offense around her exclusively parked in the low post; and with Cam and Kiki, that wasn’t how we played. Nor should it have been. If she had stayed, she might have gotten that redesign yr 2 or 3, but obviously she wasn’t happy.

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Obviously UConn is incredibly talented with a Big 3 of Bueckers, Fudd, and Strong. But the style and way they play is fun as hell to watch. Pace is so fast, great cutting, moment, the offensive is so crisp. They turn teams over.  We should strive to emulate a lot of these concepts in our own style of play. 

 A very anticlimactic ending to UCLAs great season. An embarrassing performance on the biggest stage. UCLA was outmatched from the start. Bueckers even had a very average game. Betts in tears on the bench. If you compare roster to roster, UCLA probably has just as much talent as UConn but you’d never know that watching the game.

Embarrassing loss for UCLA which was the #1 overall seed.   Even though I hate UConn, I’m not mad at the outcome because I’m not rooting for players who left our program.

I have it taped - I may watch a little. Another crazy box score. Betts had 26 points and the rest of UCLA 25.  I don’t love some of her recent comments since leaving - ok it didn’t work, fine but let it go. That said, it looks like she was the only positive thing in the game for UCLA.

UCLA with 12 more turnovers and 5 fewer rebounds = 8 fewer shots and 9 fewer free throws.
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Watched a half. She still looks a lot like she did with us, but with much more plying time. Good hands. Good footwork for her size though not very quick or explosive. Probably a better passer from the post now. Better patience in the post on offense maybe? But it’s a layup or nothing, and only 5 rebounds. It will be interesting to see how well she can translate it to the WNBA eventually against say a Jonquel Jones.

You see the Stanford fit issue clearly though. Tara would have had to design the entire offense around her exclusively parked in the low post; and with Cam and Kiki, that wasn’t how we played. Nor should it have been. If she had stayed, she might have gotten that redesign yr 2 or 3, but obviously she wasn’t happy.