Also, the league website has her listed at an interesting position (Chrome translated to English)
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We've been worshipping Ashley for years!
Interesting game, observations: the point guard "5" is a turn over machine, not alot of defense and rebounding, officals like here in the states are hard to judge, one time it is no call and the nest it is a foul. they let them play many times under the basket.
There’s 15 year old and a 16 year old on that roster. Crazy.Also, the league website has her listed at an interesting position (Chrome translated to English)
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Dinamo Sassari is 0-3 and Ash is off to a very slow start, not shooting well from the field.
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Dinamo Sassari picks up their 1st win of the season 91-87 in overtime over Oxygen Roma. Joens with 19 pts.
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Dinamo Sassari is 0-3 and Ash is off to a very slow start, not shooting well from the field.
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Lot to adjust to. She hasn't practiced much with them and is adjusting to living overseas. And language and communication, assuming she does not speak Italian. They might not know her role on this team yet. She was the focus and star at ISU after Carleton graduated. In the WNBA she was last person off the bench. Here it will not be either, probably.
watched the game they just won. she had 19 points made free throws to force the overtime and made plays to help win the game. watching a couple of the teams games at times it feels like they want to try and make the focus on players from Italy
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Dinamo Sassari with a Eurocup victory, 80-70. Ashley’s box score isn’t anything to write home about, other than a +/- of 17. She’s obviously contributing! Go Ash!!!
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Ashley Joens is a key player and adding points for the winning side. Italy. WOMEN GET BACK ON TRACK
Great redemption for the Women returning to the Eurocup playoffs, beating Levhartice Chomutov Czechs at home with the score of
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The Restivo team takes measures in the first half and then escapes in the third quarter marking the decisive break with Carangelo’s bombs, Raca’s plays and Joens’ solidity.
Sassari gets the first win of the group.
Ashley with a nice compliment on her solidity!
Ashley Joens is a key player and adding points for the winning side. Italy. WOMEN GET BACK ON TRACK
Great redemption for the Women returning to the Eurocup playoffs, beating Levhartice Chomutov Czechs at home with the score of
-.The Restivo team takes measures in the first half and then escapes in the third quarter marking the decisive break with Carangelo’s bombs, Raca’s plays and Joens’ solidity.
Sassari gets the first win of the group.
Ashley with a nice compliment on her solidity!
I spent a week in Sardegna with a friend from there, it’s a really great place I live or relax. Beautiful, slower pace and less crowded than most Italian cities.
Dinamo Sassari has won three of their past four games after a W on Thursday night, in which Ashley shot 3-14 from the field. Other than shooting %, the stat line looks good.
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I was just there in September. I have previously been to Sassari specifically. Everything you said is bang on. However, for Ashley, the adjustments living there will be huge. Very few people speak English, although with the university in Sassari, the proportion will be higher than the rest of Sardegna. Culture is very different from Iowa; it is even different from Italy! Food is fantastic and generally familiar. Language will be the big challenge, and remember, there are different dialects spoken across Sardegna, although most Sardegnans speak Italian.
I met my Sardinian friends in Rome studying abroad at ISU and learned Italian pretty fast because I mostly hung out with their family when I was there. One day my friend's older sister just started speaking gibberish to me (sardinian) and they all laughed at how perplexed I was. I don't think anybody would need to learn Sardinian to get by there though.
The other way I learned the language so fast was actually sports. I'd watch the local soccer team (Roma) on TV once or twice a week at a neighborhood bar and the play by play described everything I saw so it was very easy to understand and learn. Then the next day I'd read the entire sports page and again everything was easy to understand because it was describing what I just watched. By the time I left I could even follow a game on the radio. The class took a trip during a big game I had to miss and I listened for about an hour with some guy running a newspaper stand on his little radio. One of the few times in my life the tendency to be a sports fanatic had me learning a ton.
All Sardegnans speak Italian, in part because there are numerous dialects, and if they did not learn Italian, they could not communicate other. If Ashley speaks Spanish, learning Italian will be much easier.
In any event, I am sure we all wish Ashley well, and congratulate Sassari Dinamo on signing her.
Always joked that Italian is Spanish with hand motions! I speak Spanish but not Italian, but I can get the gist of an article or sign when I read it as it is a Romance language.
