Storrs — Christyn Williams sees it.

Whether it’s in practice or in a game, the UConn women’s basketball team has stretches where it plays at the level it expects of itself. But for Williams and her teammates, those stretches haven’t been long enough or frequent enough as the first week of the regular season wraps up.

“At UConn we’re held up to a standard and when we don’t play to that standard we’re not happy,” Williams said Friday. “But that’s why we came to UConn, to play to those standards.

“We know we can do it and that we’re capable of doing it. We have to focus. Building chemistry is important as we have a lot of new people this year and we’re working on that. Maybe that is why we’re a little inconsistent right now. It’s a work in progress and it will come in time.”

The fourth-ranked Huskies enter Sunday’s American Athletic Conference opener against Temple at McGonigle Hall in Philadelphia (1 p.m., SNY) at 2-0, but know they didn’t exactly wow anyone with their performances against California and Vanderbilt.

After watching film of Wednesday’s win in Nashville, coach Geno Auriemma said his team played eight good minutes.

“I think naturally there will be frustration from us players depending on the performance,” UConn center Olivia Nelson-Ododa said. “I see the things that we’re working on and that we’re getting better at. I feel like if we remain consistent with it and build off of it, it will be really good.”

The Huskies have consistently had teams that are better in March and April than they are in November, as their 11-0 record in national championship games and their current run of 12 consecutive NCAA Final Four appearances would indicate.

But they’ve also been strong starters. Over the last 25 years, UConn is 125-3 in November (the last loss to Stanford in 2014 that preceded the record 111-game winning streak) and 141-5 in December (the last loss to Baylor in 2011).

“This isn’t anything close to past teams,” Auriemma said. “What we’ve seen in the past is not what we’re seeing right now. Maybe we’ll see some of it in the future. The past teams had a lot of experience or diverse kinds of talents. It was easier to look that good early on. Now we look like every other team in the country that’s played two games except a couple that are blowing people out. Like I said the first day we got together, this is not going to be like any other team we’ve had in some time.”

Yet another reminder that Napheesa Collier or Gabby Williams or Breanna Stewart — to mention three — aren’t walking through the door in uniform anytime again.

“It will happen when it eventually happens,” Auriemma said. “There’s no rushing making Liv into Pheesa or Stewie. It’s not going to happen. There’s no rushing Christyn into Katie Lou Samuelson as a junior or senior or Kia Nurse. It’s not going to happen. You’re not going to rush Anna (Makurat) or Aubrey Griffin into what Crystal (Dangerfield) was last year. It’s going to take a lot of time. How much time, I have no idea.”

Time, of course, is on their side.

There isn’t a ranked team on the schedule until Notre Dame visits on Dec. 8, and the Irish lost back-to-back games this week for the first time in nine seasons.

“We can look at film and pinpoint the areas that we’re struggling with, and remain consistent with what we have to fix and what we have to work on,” Nelson-Ododa said.

The Huskies shot just 41.5 percent from the floor in each of their first two games and four players are accounting for 95.6 percent of the points.

The defense is ahead of the offense. But then again, the Golden Bears and Commodores are expected to finish near the bottom of their respective conferences.

“We didn’t exactly play Oregon and Baylor the first two games,” Auriemma said. “I think everyone knows it. So I would have been really disappointed that defensively we didn’t do a decent job. And we did. Both of them are not high-powered, high-scoring teams. Obviously we still have a ways to go before we’re ready for that. We don’t play that for awhile.”

Temple (3-1) bounced back from a Philadelphia Big Five loss to Saint Joseph’s with a win over Xavier Thursday. Coached by former UConn assistant Tonya Cardoza, the Owls are led by all-AAC first team junior Mia Davis.

UConn, of course, has not lost an AAC game entering its seventh and final season in the league.

But the Huskies can’t take anything for granted like in the past.

“We’re still learning to play with each other,” Makurat said. “The games are never easy, but you try to get better every game.”