UConn vs UCLA - 11/24/2023

[@A_Fan_of_WBB]

You really cannot blame Paige for this loss, she did everything to try to keep them in the game. You wonder if she hadn't been on minutes restriction if they could've pulled out the win. Thanks for uploading!

[@RaxOldies]

Thanks again MJL243!! Tough game for UConn, but thanks for posting...as always! Edit: And for the record...Amari had some meaningful minutes in the paint on the defensive end in the 2nd quarter...and needs to be rewarded with more if she can keep that up!!! Good going.......

[@aapooloomeeh]

I'm going to be the one talking about Amari DeBerry making a very important defensive contribution in this game because I can't stand to see that nobody is mentioning it!!!! She deserved those minutes, and finally Geno gave her the oportunity to make an statement

[@erics9213]

In spades; even if she fouls out, its still a contribution and experience.

[@ivy7932]

She did great considering Geno has pretty much given up on developing her. Hoping she gets more minutes because we are going to need her!

[@holyworrier]

I'm pulling for her.

[@RaxOldies]

^^^^^^^^^^^^ I mentioned her! She did a good job!

[@Someonespecial111]

Ashlynn Shade is underrated. I get so excited when I see her run on the court and get in her comfort shooting spot. She really does so good shooting 3s

[@pulajul7644]

Paige carries the team😖

[@violetforpb]

Thank you for the game! Obviously very disappointing overall. Paige can’t do anything! the starting lineup needs to change, Aubrey griffin did her role but we needs shooters that aren’t only Paige!

[@lilikaramirez1848]

Been saying it and I'm not a UConn fan. But 33 is terrible. Paige needs help with Fudd out this team is going to struggle offensively

[@violetforpb]

@@lilikaramirez1848 you need to look into ducharme’s health before commenting, this is so mean concluding the fact that she has struggled with her health and injuries her whole career, you should see her playing as a freshmen she was really good and helped both offensively and defensively. Ducharme didn’t play in the Cayman Islands because of an issue in her neck. she’s still a lot of help when she’s healthy. Had many starts and even was the leading scorer as a freshmen for a while before the other girls came back from injury.

[@daveyhansen]

Not a big fan of b ball, but I'm seeing a lot of air balls here.

[@violetforpb]

@@daveyhansen don’t let this one game set an opinion on this team, they have struggled the beginning of the season, injuries and different line up, freshmen stepping up etc, if you watched uconn’s latest game, the freshmen did no miss a shot in the first half, they were 18/18 FG. They look better now, the whole team.

[@daveyhansen]

Okay, so what's with all of the airballs?@@violetforpb

[@Ifetayoyoga]

The height of UCLA had everyone scared Nika traveled, and Aaliyah, Nika, and Aubrey all air mailing shots. It looks so bad

[@ivy7932]

Confused with these lineup choices. This team needs to have a serious talk about everyone's roles.

[@Ifetayoyoga]

Absolutely. Our offense is suspect right now

[@tinashepule]

KK is going to be the future of this team 🤞🏾

[@t_elisbeth]

Edwards is the missing piece. She starts playing like she did last year and they will be no loses.

[@svpst1]

Edwards has played poorly in ever big game UConn has had for 3 years now. She never has a big game when they need it, only against people like Butler. Kiki must have thought she had leprosy she was left so alone. But any team that you take away their 2 best shooters is going to struggle and they were both on the bench.

[@Kielyn123]

Yes, but they gonna need more than just A Edwards

[@nkanski8854]

love that the full game is uploaded but that beat/music in the background is a bit annoying...

[@daveyhansen]

More than a bit and it slows down the computer.

[@drdeath9919]

Where was the effort like the Maryland game? Paige and Aubrey showed up!!!

[@markhathaway9456]

K.K. was good too.

[@erics9213]

I'm happy to see Amari get some meaningful playing time. Her presence did effect UCLA in the paint even though the numbers don't show it. UCLA is a big team with 6-7 Lauren Betts at center. Time with Brinks taught her something. I've said this before. UCONN lacks shooters. Again saw a lot of wide open shops passed up due to the lack of confidence in taking open shots. So, when Aubrey and Nikka have the ball on the perimeter, UCLA just collapses to the paint and dares them to shoot. This makes driving the only obvious option for Griffin and most if not all teams know this. Amari must get onboard against big opponents for UCONN to have a chance this season. And, where has Inez Betancourt been? UCONN knows what they need to work on. The coach needs to make it happen.

[@erictaylor6318]

Amari should have played 25 minutes plus. Edwards and Brady are too small

[@Kielyn123]

Only one person on that team can shoot the jumper.

[@RaxOldies]

I saw Inez during one of the timeouts, and she looked miserable...not happy at all!! Another player getting 2 mins at the end of the game. She deserves more than that! I'm in my 32nd yr with this team....and I'm starting to have some doubts like a lot of others. We'll see.

[@MMAALL]

I know the injuries have hurt UConn, but they’ve had a lot of top recruits underperform for a while outside of Edwards and Paige. Some of the players need to stop being local celebrities and wannabe social media influencers and worry about basketball. At UConn, it’s about winning. Not NIL bucks. They’re not mentally tough any more.

[@MrKouaVang]

UConn hasn’t been the best in 8 years! With parity here in women’s basketball, it’ll be hard for UConn to win it all again

[@Kielyn123]

Extremely hard especially with this current group.

[@StoryGordon]

@@MrKouaVang - There are 361 DI programs. Winning 11 in 37 years is pretty good. Saying it will be hard is interesting. Are you saying it was easy before?

[@StoryGordon]

@@Kielyn123 - It hasn't been easy that I recall.

[@Kielyn123]

@@StoryGordon no, never easy. Always hard, but with this group of youngsters and in this day and age of near parity the odds of them winning it all is quite slim.

[@drdeath9919]

Paige!!! The Best all around player in the league!!!!!

[@lilikaramirez1848]

You're crazy

[@lilikaramirez1848]

You're crazy

[@UConnNation12]

Who's better? Caitlin Clark? Paige isn't even completely healthy yet, has the best handles, shoots as well as anyone, has a great turnover to possession (efficiency) rating and is stuck playing with a bunch of journeyman type of players. Paige could easily average 30/6/5 if she controlled every possession. Which she now is going to be forced to do. Other than Aliyah I don't see one other player making the WNBA. The other teammates she played with Evina Westbrook barely plays in games, Liv Ododa is Liv and Christyn Williams hasn't played one minute in a game yet. How we've made 2 final fours in the 2 seasons Paige has played in games shows how great she is. Two seasons ago, we would've lost to the Florida team in the 2nd round without Paige and definitely would've lost to Indiana. There is a player in college ball other than Paige that could've carried, which she did, 2 better than average teams, to the Final 4 other than Paige.

[@UConnNation12]

There isn't a player, I meant to say.

[@Dingle051554]

Point guard for UCLA ate her up.

[@kennethrobinson6738]

As always, Thanks MJL. Greatly appreciate you sharing these games with us fans. Tough loss. Just have to learn from it and hopefully improve for the next game. Paige has to remember, she has teammates out there. She can't do it all on her own.

[@ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣΕΖΝΕΠΙΔΗΣ]

Teammates? Who. With one or two exception the rest are mediocre!

[@edison505]

真是謝謝你的影片，豐富了我的生活，感謝感謝🙏🏻❤

[@李宇姍-k6d]

沒想到能在這個寶藏頻道看到台灣人Uconn粉 好驚喜！

[@edison505]

@@李宇姍-k6d 你好啊！這真的是寶藏頻道，可惜MJL大大後來應該是遇到了麻煩，後面沒再更新了😢

[@Kielyn123]

Thanks MJL243. Much appreciated. Good game for UCONN early in the season - before Big East (Easy) play. Showed that they have a long way to go to be a solid contender against the top teams in the league, and it clearly conveyed a necessity to develop more (even one more) players to complement - offensively or defensively or both - level of play by Paige.

[@markhathaway9456]

Why is everybody missing 3s from the right side? Why is Aaliyah missing all her mid-range shots? Nika needs to pass more strongly. UCLA is a very good team, but Rice is their star, not Betts. Where is Aaliyah? I haven't seen UConn miss so many shots and NOT take this many short shots forever.

[@jpmel1]

Appreciate posting the broadcast, but where did the background music come from? That was horrid!!!!

[@suzanneraphael1168]

I was going to say the same thing until I thought to myself, “stop being an entitled b**** and appreciate the gift of being able to see the game at all without having to subscribe to the heinous flohoops.” So instead I will say with my whole heart, THANK YOU MJR, as I sit and watch this painful game over a month later. ❤

[@usveteran9893]

What has been taking place this year compared to the past two years is that Nika is not getting the assists, Edwards rebounding is lacking + scoring in consistant. Injuries once again plague UCONN but I really discount Caroline Ducharme as she is a chronic injury player, has been playing gingerly when on the court [like she is afraid to get injured]. So far Aubery Griffin cioming off the bench has been inconsistant as to what she provided last year. I am not seeing much passion from this team, not like the past two years. Glad to see a healthy Paige Bueckers, she is the bright spot, but she can't hold the entire team up on her own.

[@semeon52]

I think after last year of playing and experiencing a thirty-eight-minute plus, thirty-one-game season, the result may have drained players of their passion and their energy?

[@usveteran9893]

@@semeon52 Could be, you can't rule it out. Today Edwards stats looked lame, Griffin reallytepped it up, Paige was okay...then blah. I mean look at it Nika and Edwards were tied for second in rebounds with seven...NIKA!!!!

[@kritchutamote5954]

Thank you so much / from Thailand🙏

[@TheStranger513]

Is this really the broadcast with that same beat playing over the announcers lol?

[@DyreStraits]

Yes an annoying background track.

[@lexsea]

geno’s coaching has become quite suspect lately. the lineups he puts out there are horrid and he refuses to change them as the game goes on. the game was lost at halftime when he refused to put the lineup that was out there to end the half and came back from down 19 back out there. this loss isn’t even on the players

[@kennethrobinson6738]

That is the elephant in the room, Coach and his coaching. We see it and I am sure the rest of the coaching staff can see the quality of coaching is slipping.

[@erictaylor6318]

Exactly.

[@Kielyn123]

Agree. Hoping because it's early he's still working on identifying his best rotations

[@davidlang7271]

Thanks for posting !

[@anacolon-galloway]

i hate the background music so bad 😭

[@jeromedanielson4422]

I would love to see a repeat, KK A and Shade in the lineup full time now with Brady now scoring.

[@StoryGordon]

Proof UConn has work to do which I suspect they will in the thrity games or so before the tournaments. While UCLA has an experienced roster, two grad students and only one Freshman, Lauren Betts was held below her average proving for one game that having a big is not an automatic advantage. Rice and Osborne going 12-25 3s was reminiiscent of L'Ville upsetting Baylor in 2016(?). UConn is challenged to replace the play of Lou and Dorka who provided 30-40% of their scoring and rebounding with four Freshmen - Ash Ice, KK and Q - indevelopment and one, Caroline, who is day-to-day. I suspect they will be much better at tournament time.

[@erics9213]

Lou was a breath of fresh air when she joined the team. Very smart offensive player. Dorka came into her own as the season progressed.

[@StoryGordon]

@@erics9213 - And a surprise. I remember the "experts" saying she would never start only be a sixth or seventh man because whe played at a DII school.

[@pulajul7644]

paige bucket needs help

[@HollyStOnge-vo5to]

The background music is so annoying. Please stop it

[@holyworrier]

It helps when you have a freak of nature on your team. 35:19 Paige gets nothing but ball.

[@JohnDoe-le7vn]

The background music is sooooo annoying!!

[@daveyhansen]

Not even music, just bass diddles.

[@kiddoo9708]

Thank you 💙

[@erictaylor6318]

Aubrey needs to stay in the game. Debarry needs 20 plus minutes because Edwards is useless against the top tier centers. Q needs more confidence and minutes. Second loss when Geno replaces the unit that stormed back with the starters.

[@carlfredb]

Thanks MJL

[@lisacharbonneau6940]

Why was this game not televised?

[@alexisdal]

It's a tournament game

[@nguyen1208]

they shoulda added amari back in she was doing a good job of boxing out betts when it came to rebounds.

[@nguyen1208]

(earlier**)

[@mariaserio4055]

Thanks for the game MJL...going to sit and watch it right now....

[@jouzou4311]

Actually UCONN is just a name , the other team getting better and better, SC and IWOA in the final

[@emcarnahan]

Thank you! 💙🙏

[@jomilojufavour]

UConns loss was in no way her fault! Too many uncalled fowls. How unruly!!

[@erics9213]

UCLA was just better out of the gate.

[@joeyvilla3279]

Star players are usually not called flagrant fouls... Refs are scared of of famous coaches

[@tinashevengesai3011]

the music needs to stop

[@ulrikesauer4681]

Thx a lot!

[@Meofcourse27]

Must be nice for U Conn having their own cheerleader announcing the game. But that's typical.

[@ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣΕΖΝΕΠΙΔΗΣ]

This uconn team can't go far! Confused players who don't know what to do with the ball! Unfortunately freshiescant replace Dora end Lou!

[@victorlopez2143]

Aaliyah Edwards didn't show up for the game. She should know better. I hope this doesn't become a trend in BIG games. Had the same issues with Olivia Nelson-Ododa...Amari is a LOST cause. Can't blame a freshman Ice- she is still learning the college game. Hopefully she will learn from this. Not looking forward to the SC..They will get embarrassed. I'm still hoping...Go huskies..

[@erics9213]

At this pace, going up against SC would be a blowout.

[@victorlopez2143]

YUP@@erics9213

[@daveyhansen]

What is the point of the annoying bass twaddling?

[@dougjenkins2542]

Thanks for the game MJL. We appreciate it. 😎

[@daveyhansen]

The annoying music is not helping. If you can call it music.

[@michelleeditor]

Too bad UCLA wasn't this good in the NCAA tournament. They could have been a final four team

[@honwaili335]

THANK YOU as always

[@bjtesch9571]

Thanks MJ❤🎉

[@darrius8033]

geno should let kk shae and q play more minutes together and become the core the vets just questionable

[@labrd41]

Out come not so good, MJL243👍👍👍

[@onestgermain]

No Bigs, no Championship, Sir Geno! Truly disappointing! Ladies, less TikTok dances, more bbl!

[@lecowardjames]

All they need is B.Stewart........more practice won't get them a chance win championship

[@RubenDarioCanariofana-du5il]

Serecuerda cuando ledije que behian.Buena que sitaban lita serecuerdan.a

[@paulburr5072]

Its sad when you have a team like Uconn first few shoots are airballs. I mean really sure miss Dorka and Lou And Aaliyah Edwards is not a post player, can't shoot and can't block

[@megatronwalker]

1:07:43

[@ZipRocks]

Geno doesn't care anymore. That is reflected in the team's play. It's over,

[@markhathaway9456]

It took at least a full quarter of losing before UConn got into any kind of good place.

[@lilikaramirez1848]

Im not a uconn fan but 33 needs to go for u guys .. She's bad.

[@emcarnahan]

She’s in concussion protocol. Coming back from injuries.

[@steviekinzey2304]

​@@bitsofblondienot gonna say I disagree, but we all know that's not gonna happen. Geno won't let them go and they won't let go of the game either

[@Kielyn123]

Yeah - C Ducharme play is a shell of what it once was - before her concussion injuries.

[@losadnerolf9680]

😊😊😊

[@bryangonzales7627]

Gaby ❤

[@RubenDarioCanariofana-du5il]

Ese uno.ay

[@mikearias2199]

Way to many coaches on the sideline - each coaching = confusion - Geno get that under control - seems - repeat seems - like players that have been given a big build up and not performing to all their hipe - study the film(s) and get a line up that compliments each others talent - opponents know they only have to stop PB and Aubrey they can not continue to carry the team (5 against 2 just doesn’t work) - teams do not cover the point guard “hell she ain’t going to shoot - if she misses one she shuts it down = 5 players guarding 4 and only two of those are actually productive - don’t get me wrong she is a hell of a defensive player now work to become a scoring point guard as well - when things aren’t going good and PB has to be the go to person let her know that is her role and not have her get frustrated with the other players “Accept you Role and Produce even more - “easy to say - I know” but tie up those shoes and go to work - it is the coach that has to see this early and get players on the court that are going to produce whatever the circumstances are!!!!!!!!!!

[@RubenDarioCanariofana-du5il]

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