DoggyDaddy's Dailies 11/4/16

                                                                                                                                                        
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Well, another post by that piece of crap so-called "longtimefan" on the UConn message board.

"We all have to wake up to the fact that Butler is not going to be a good player. She is awkward, slow, has bad hands, and is not athletic. She can't dominate against a division II opponent. She just isn't good for anything more than about 2 minutes a game, during which she will miss a lay-up and draw two personals. Next year, we'll have some quality players with size. Butler was a mistake."

She can't dominate against a division II opponent? Really? Like an exhibition game tells you all you need to know?

And she did have 8 points and 9 rebounds. Pretty good stats.

But this fan is not all there. With a little investigation (and reading this blog) this moron would see how she actually dominated Div I teams while a freshman at Georgetown. I have posted this before and I found it again. Here it is.

If you had to guess, how bad was Georgetown's SOS in 2013-14? 100? 150? 200?  Nope, it's actually pretty damn good in the scheme of things.      

realtime RPI - 41

Wbbstate - 38

Nolan - 49

Georgetown in 2013-14 schedule was in the top 15% of all of WCBB. That is nothing to sneeze at. So how did she do against the good teams? Teams under 100 RPI?

RPI 15 Penn State - 12 points 9 rebounds

RPI 25 DePaul - 9 points 10 rebounds, 15 points 13 rebounds, 8 points 11 rebounds

RPI 26 St. John's - 14 points 10 rebounds, 8 points 14 rebound

RPI 27 California - 16 points 15 rebounds

RPI 32 Michigan State - 7 points 12 rebounds

RPI 50 Villanova - 19 points 14 rebounds 12 points 13 rebounds

RPI 65 Florida - 16 points 18 rebounds

RPI 67 Creighton - 24 points 13 rebounds, 13 points 14 rebounds 

RPI 69 Princeton - 14 points 5 rebounds

RPI 70 George Washington - 17 points 8 rebounds 

RPI 86 Marquette - 12 points 12 rebounds, 14 points 8 rebounds

Against the teams with under 100 RPI, she averages 13.5 points per game and 11.7 rebounds per game.  

There you go. More proof that LongtimeFan is just a friggin' idiot.


While I'm on a roll, I guess I wasn't the only one to notice the embarrassing drubbing of Bluefield State by Maryland. Here are a few links.

Did the Maryland Women’s team take it too far? Kentucky Sports
Maryland’s Women’s Basketball Team Won A Game By 129 Points On Wednesday Sports Gold
Five crazy stats from the Maryland women's team's 129-point victory Yahoo Sports
Six crazy numbers (besides 129) from Maryland's 129-point win Washington Post
Maryland coach after 129-point win: '(We) didn't play the scoreboard' Fox Sports
You won't believe the drubbing Maryland put on poor Bluefield St. CBS Sports

One article said that this will be the most dominant, lopsided win of the 2016-17 season. Well, until Maryland plays it's second exhibition game on Sunday.

Opponent?  Mary Baldwin University. Another Division II team. Here was their schedule and results from last season. If you don't feel like clicking on the link, I'll just say that they were 0-24 last season. They shot only 26% on the entire season. They were outrebounded by 22 per game. Just a terrible team.    

Yes, a winless Division II team going against a top 10 Division I team. One that doesn't seem to have a clue in how to clear the bench and not run up the score.

I can only imagine the numbers that will come out of this game.  
        
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By David in Naples!!!!!

After just one exhibition game, several UConn "fans" are ready to strip Natalie Butler of her scholarship and bury her at the end of the bench. She played terribly Tuesday night against IUP, right?  Well, not so fast... Some people evaluate the facts before judgement. Here's the facts:

1.  Natalie played 24 minutes, same number of minutes as Saniya and only 1 less than Napheesa. Geno was no doubt giving her time to get comfortable and for the staff to evaluate.
2. Butler scored 8 points on 7 shots. She missed two short putbacks, but otherwise went 3-5 from the field.
3. Her 9 rebounds tied Gabby for the team lead. Should we fire Gabby too..??
4. Nat had 2 assists vs 0 turnovers AND 2 steals. Just turrible..!!
5. Butler's 2-4 from the free throw line is a negative, but way to small a sample to draw a conclusion. By the way, Gabby & Crystal both missed 3 free throws...

Playing against smaller opponents doesn't automatically mean she should have had a double-double. At least one of her fouls seemed unfair as one of the fidgets banged into Nat and went flying. Everyone knows refs favor smaller people when they get touched by a big.   Bottom line, she is 24 minutes into the new season. Can we wait a while before relegating her to the bench forever.

Go Huskies..!!

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UCONN LINKS

Geno: Hall of Fame next for Ray Allen Carl Adamec
Process of picking next Olympic coach starts soon Jim Fuller
SNY announces 2016-17 broadcast schedule for UConn women's basketball SNY
Rebecca Lobo inducted into Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame Sportzedge

WCBB LINKS

Arkansas Women's Basketball Team Kneels During National Anthem KNWA
South Dakota women return just one starter from WNIT title team Siouxland's News
FSU women's basketball notebook part two  Tomahawk Nation
Colorado State women's basketball has some questions to answer Loveland Herald
Georgia women's coach Joni Taylor delivers a daughter  Daily Herald
Gamecocks' A'ja Wilson leads women's preseason All-America team Post and Courier
New Faces Bring New Challenges for Gamecock Women’s Basketball  ABC Columbia
Northwestern women’s basketball enters a critical season  Inside NU
2016-2017 SEC women’s basketball predictions  Tennessee Journalist
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: North Carolina 96, Carson-Newman 70  Daily Tarheel
Wilson, Mitchell lead preseason AP All-Americans ESPN

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