[JohnR34231]

yes, the uconn offense was fun to watch, especially on fast breaks. bueckers and fudd graduate, but sarah strong is already excellent and will be only a rising sophomore.

but it's the uconn defense that was dominant. rapid, unpredictable switching from player-to-player to zone. doubling betts down low, then anticipating her pass to the wing and racing out before ucla could get off a 3.  ucla had almost no open shots, and they couldn't hit the few they had. neither jones nor rice could get free. jones in particular looked useless on offense. gardiner and dugalic threw up wild shots before getting set. so many air balls! frankly, ucla looked like us this year against good teams.

Agree with you on uconn's defense, but they generally have excellent defenses especially at this time of year.  Their offense ran, ran and ran, they ran ucla into the hardood.  uconn's coaching was outstanding, ucla coaching was seemed totally unprepared and failed to make any adjustments. ucla can recruit players, but it seems over the years the player development and the team play has lagged behind the talent level assembled.

Yeah that's a common criticism of Cori. She is a great recruiter but a not so great game day coach. Well, I think she did pretty well this year until she went up against the Old Fox. Certainly did well against Dawn and figured out how to beat Juju & Co, after two losses.

[JohnR34231]

yes, the uconn offense was fun to watch, especially on fast breaks. bueckers and fudd graduate, but sarah strong is already excellent and will be only a rising sophomore.

but it's the uconn defense that was dominant. rapid, unpredictable switching from player-to-player to zone. doubling betts down low, then anticipating her pass to the wing and racing out before ucla could get off a 3.  ucla had almost no open shots, and they couldn't hit the few they had. neither jones nor rice could get free. jones in particular looked useless on offense. gardiner and dugalic threw up wild shots before getting set. so many air balls! frankly, ucla looked like us this year against good teams.

Agree with you on uconn's defense, but they generally have excellent defenses especially at this time of year.  Their offense ran, ran and ran, they ran ucla into the hardood.  uconn's coaching was outstanding, ucla coaching was seemed totally unprepared and failed to make any adjustments. ucla can recruit players, but it seems over the years the player development and the team play has lagged behind the talent level assembled.

Yeah that's a common criticism of Cori. She is a great recruiter but a not so great game day coach. Well, I think she did pretty well this year until she went up against the Old Fox. Certainly did well against Dawn and figured out how to beat Juju & Co, after two losses.