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Post by doggydaddy on Jul 12, 2024 17:16:00 GMT -5
Did I? Well, I was wrong the first time, since I was treating them as a collective and that takes a singular verb. Fine in colloquial speech but not the King's English, though I suspect swash will weigh in to the contrary. :-) If the subject is combo ... has. If the focus is on the two individuals ... have. In this case, the two players specifically named preceding have to be, with combo in the predicate. I think I like the original. LOL. For those cringing ... it's just a long running joke between bulkey and me. Neither of us care to become grammar police! You would say “USC HAS the best high low combination…blah blah blah”. Time will tell.
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Post by bulkey on Jul 12, 2024 17:43:24 GMT -5
If the subject is combo ... has. If the focus is on the two individuals ... have. In this case, the two players specifically named preceding have to be, with combo in the predicate. I think I like the original. LOL. For those cringing ... it's just a long running joke between bulkey and me. Neither of us care to become grammar police! You would say “USC HAS the best high low combination…blah blah blah”. Time will tell. True. That's because USC is singular. But my subject wasn't USC; it was our two favorite syllabic reduplicators. And as swash suggests, there are rules (not unbreakable because it's a grey area) about whether it takes a plural or singular verb.
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Post by linkster on Jul 13, 2024 18:45:36 GMT -5
You would say “USC HAS the best high low combination…blah blah blah”. Time will tell. True. That's because USC is singular. But my subject wasn't USC; it was our two favorite syllabic reduplicators. And as swash suggests, there are rules (not unbreakable because it's a grey area) about whether it takes a plural or singular verb. Whether or not a combo is singular or plural seems evasive. The real question is two-fold. First, why it it imperative that they be the best combo? Second, what are the consequences if they aren't the best? Or were you just stating 'have to' to mean an obvious fact? Either way I disagree.
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Post by linkster on Jul 13, 2024 22:37:00 GMT -5
A year ago LSU was anointed "super team" based on their new transfers. They had added elite talent to their title team.
USC could be good enough to win a title but maybe Geno is right that the chemistry has to be right when it comes to transfers.
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Post by swash on Jul 14, 2024 5:12:55 GMT -5
A year ago LSU was anointed "super team" based on their new transfers. They had added elite talent to their title team. USC could be good enough to win a title but maybe Geno is right that the chemistry has to be right when it comes to transfers. they lost a lot of contributors to graduation and have some frosh to integrate, but I remember only one transfer. Just happens to be a big one ... in both stature and in expectations.
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Post by UConnChapette on Jul 21, 2024 17:44:13 GMT -5
Wow! I hope both of you turn out to be right. 1. UConn will have an elite offense 2. UConn will have an elite defense Go dog go!Do you like my hat? I do not like that hat!
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Post by swash on Jul 21, 2024 18:25:06 GMT -5
Wow! I hope both of you turn out to be right. 1. UConn will have an elite offense 2. UConn will have an elite defense Go dog go!Do you like my hat? I do not like that hat! Now do you like my hat? I do. I like that party hat! Good bye. Good bye.
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Post by UConnChapette on Jul 21, 2024 18:26:45 GMT -5
Do you like my hat? I do not like that hat! Now do you like my hat? I do. I like that party hat! Good bye. Good bye. My favorite childhood book, no doubt about it.
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Post by swash on Jul 21, 2024 19:16:37 GMT -5
Now do you like my hat? I do. I like that party hat! Good bye. Good bye. My favorite childhood book, no doubt about it. mine, too. My grandson loves it too.
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Post by linkster on Jul 21, 2024 19:18:38 GMT -5
My favorite childhood book, no doubt about it. mine, too. My grandson loves it too. So how many minutes do you think your grandson will get??
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Post by UConnChapette on Jul 21, 2024 19:20:53 GMT -5
mine, too. My grandson loves it too. So how many minutes do you think your grandson will get?? Who cares!? All the dogs are partying in the tree. Nothing else matters.
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Post by swash on Jul 22, 2024 5:01:28 GMT -5
mine, too. My grandson loves it too. So how many minutes do you think your grandson will get?? He get all of my minutes he wants.
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Post by bulkey on Jul 25, 2024 8:50:51 GMT -5
What's a day without a fight over minutes? Dan Connolly today (I think it's free, but I edited it a bit):
Ever since 2020, when Evina Westbrook emerged as a leader and the class of Paige Bueckers, Aaliyah Edwards and Nika Mühl arrived on campus, the Huskies’ chemistry has been particularly strong. That’s held true for the current team, at least through summer workouts.
“It's amazing right now,” Ashlynn Shade said of the team’s chemistry. “I think we're all clicking on all cylinders. I don't really think we missed a beat coming back.”
“We're very close with each other. It's kind of been the theme my four years, just how close we are and how tight-knit our group has always been,” Bueckers added. “It's continued this summer.”
Auriemma isn’t so convinced — at least not yet. Everyone might get along well now, but he wants to see if it holds up when minutes are on the line during preseason practices.
“When there's competition for playing time, that's when it's really tested, what your chemistry really is,” he said.
That hasn’t been an issue for awhile, in part because injuries have devastated the roster over the last three years. UConn couldn’t have a competition for minutes because it barely had enough healthy players.
Now, the Huskies have 14 players on the roster — all of whom could reasonably contribute if avaiable. Auriemma is hopeful that he can deploy a deeper rotation for the first time in a long time this season, but even going 10 deep would leave four players on the bench.
.... “As long as everybody gets a fair shake, and everybody has an equal opportunity, and whoever comes out on top gets more minutes than those who don't, and everybody accepts that and understands that — like, KK (Arnold) and Ashlynn didn’t come here (and say), ‘If I don’t play 30 minutes, I'm transferring.’ They were happy to play three minutes every night sometimes,” Auriemma said.
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Post by linkster on Jul 26, 2024 21:18:03 GMT -5
Connolly is looking to write something different. All I care about is that it's fair. I think we are in for some intense play as subs try to brake into the rotation.
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