Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 8:57:42 GMT -5
Beginning!!
Sure, it’s possible to read to much into this game, even if it was the latest in the line of UConn’s wins in No. 1-vs.-No. 2 games, even if it means the Huskies will likely be No. 1 next week. If it bodes well for March, it is still February, after all. But one can’t read enough into what Paige Bueckers has become. No, this is something different we are witnessing, even if too few of us can witness it in person.
“There’s not much you can say,” Auriemma said. “I mean, she’s that player. She’s that player that comes along that people talk about. ‘Hey, did you see that kid from Connecticut?’ She’s that kid.”
On a night when a young UConn team grew up, learned how to win, a night that turns freshmen into freshmen-in-name-only, that kid showed her fandom that there is really no limit to what can be expected of her. If that miraculous shot didn’t go in, surely Bueckers would have conjured up something else on a night when her family, her parents and her younger brother, had come from Minnesota to see her play in a UConn jersey for the first time.
www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-amore-column-uconn-women-south-carolina-20210210-20210209-yh3oatfsuzafxluhg3fup5gbu4-story.html
Sure, it’s possible to read to much into this game, even if it was the latest in the line of UConn’s wins in No. 1-vs.-No. 2 games, even if it means the Huskies will likely be No. 1 next week. If it bodes well for March, it is still February, after all. But one can’t read enough into what Paige Bueckers has become. No, this is something different we are witnessing, even if too few of us can witness it in person.
“There’s not much you can say,” Auriemma said. “I mean, she’s that player. She’s that player that comes along that people talk about. ‘Hey, did you see that kid from Connecticut?’ She’s that kid.”
On a night when a young UConn team grew up, learned how to win, a night that turns freshmen into freshmen-in-name-only, that kid showed her fandom that there is really no limit to what can be expected of her. If that miraculous shot didn’t go in, surely Bueckers would have conjured up something else on a night when her family, her parents and her younger brother, had come from Minnesota to see her play in a UConn jersey for the first time.
www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-amore-column-uconn-women-south-carolina-20210210-20210209-yh3oatfsuzafxluhg3fup5gbu4-story.html
