Since I got flak for using the word laziness, I will respond to everyone in general.
First, my statements are being taken out of context and then they take the liberty to conflate it with something that's NOT remotely the intention.
Second, lazy is disinclined to activity or exertion; not energetic or vigorous; not willing to work or be energetic.
Maybe you're using the definition, "not willing to work" only while I'm using the definition, "not energetic or vigorous; be energetic."
"While lazy actually means being averse to work or avoiding it, it can also be used to describe something slow-moving or unenergetic, like when you stroll down the garden path with a lazy gait, not in a hurry to get anywhere."
Ex: Just because you do some dumb things in your life, doesn't make you a dumb person. Now replace dumb with lazy.
I'm not the only who noticed that this has happened more that just this game. Cory says that he also noticed something in the game prior also.
Here's a transcript:
Cory says: "I want to ask you [Ka$h Alexander] about Hannah Stuelke. You made a, you sent me a message during the game and said it seems like Hannah's just jogging out there. ... I commented back that it did. I did notice something in the last game that it felt like she was not moving maybe as smoothly as she has in the past or maybe not running as hard. Did you notice that as the game continued and should that be a a concern for fans ..."
Ka$h responds: "I'm confused about is because it's no way that [AOG] should be beating you down the floor ever, EVER, unless she got a half court ahead of you head start start and there was a time where she went to close out in the corner and she just kind of like nonchalantly jogged out there and I was like what is happening. She just doesn't, I don't know she's just not running as hard. She's not. We'll get some spurts like in the earlier games we saw some spurts right, but it's not the Hannah that was last year. Like she that was like her her mindset was go go go run run run run run. I don't know if she's not doing that because she's realized that I'm running for no reason because there's no Caitlin Clark to pass it the ball. I don't know but I feel like she's just not running and I don't, I don't like that for her."
As others have noticed, it's happening on both ends of the floor.
What's so hard to understand and what's this crap with equating lazy situations with being a lazy person. They're NOT remotely the same thing.
I stated the same thing Cory did in that I noticed it in several games now like he did.
I stated, "She lacks intensity at times."
I stated, "It just looks like laziness to me, until I learn of something else we don't know at this time."
It's at times, in limited situations. It's NOT talking about a person in general terms. That's why they're NOT remotely the same equivalence.
When you hear the words from her own mouth that her knee is healed and she is moving better with no pain, then I don't expect to see what I'm seeing from her AT TIMES. What's so hard to understand about going from "her mindset was go go go run run run run run" on a bad knee to jogging or being nonchalant at times on healthy knees? I'm sorry, but this doesn't equate in my book. If she's not using her gas on rim runs now, then she should have more energy for defense. It doesn't equate to an ex-Hawkeye either and that's why it's confusing to her also. The pieces to the puzzle don't add up.
Ever had co-workers that did the minimum as possible to get their paychecks? It's habitual in almost everything they do. That's a lazy person. If you haven't run across this in your lifetime, then consider yourself lucky. That's NOT what I'm talking about with Hannah. And yes, there are many co-workers that do their job descriptions and some even do more because they want to go to the next level.
There's obviously things Hannah is doing great at as she is averaging more points and rebounds than last year's NATTY run and she is doing it in a new role. I just don't see how you would get that kind of production from a lazy person. We're NOT talking about that part of her game. We're talking about these certain "at times" situations. I find it hard to believe I even have to explain this difference between several lazy times versus being a lazy person to grown adults.
If you want to call these isolated cases something else, then that's your reasonable prerogative to do so just as it mine to call it as I see it based on what I can see and have heard. I see a healthy person. She says she is healthy. She does show she has burst throughout the game. Somehow some don't understand what, "until I learn of something else we don't know at this time" means.