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RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - martyup - 03-20-2025

Refs doing everything possible to prevent Stanford from winning this game.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - needle - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 09:06 PM)Hieronymus Wrote: Finally got a break on a call. Should have been a push on Nunu, but a flagrant would have been weak sauce there.

Oh and there is the bullshit charge call. ***** the refs. You want to look up absurd make up call, well there you go. Nunu fouls out.

As a fan, I have an extraordinarily high threshold for reffing mistakes/incompetence, but I am OUTRAGED at that call on Nunu. What a joke!

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - CompSci87 - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 12:10 PM)crackpot Wrote: As I sit here fretting about what bottom-of-the-barrel refs we might see tonight, The Athletic has an article on the ***show that is WBB reffing.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6216252/2025/03/20/womens-college-basketball-referees-refs-officiating/

I apologize if it's behind a paywall; I couldn't find a gift link.

That was all too timely.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - fullmetal - 03-20-2025

Good god, down one point, with one second left in OT? Sigh.

Brooke misses the last-second three-ptr. Bounced.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - Hieronymus - 03-20-2025

And we lose. Seems like a perfect microcosm of the season.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - martyup - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 09:09 PM)martyup Wrote: Refs doing everything possible to prevent Stanford from winning this game.

And the refs get their win.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - CompSci87 - 03-20-2025

The refs were horrible, but so was our offense. We should have been able to score enough to overcome the bad calls.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - fullmetal - 03-20-2025

Ogden and Heal combined for 1-11 shooting. The team was 13-18 FT...could have used a few of those. 39.7% FG is terrible on your home court, but I get it, finals week is a terrible time for important sports events.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - JohnR34231 - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 09:15 PM)Hieronymus Wrote: And we lose. Seems like a perfect microcosm of the season.

Absolutely great job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I suppose we can do what we usually do when we lose a close one. Blame the refs.
Dismal end to a dismal season.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - PVTree - 03-20-2025

This train wreck of a season mercifully ends with another disappointing loss. Time to turn the page and hope the new blood has more fight in them.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - Card10Fan - 03-20-2025

For those of us who had a sliver of hope that maybe a postseason tourney run could provide some positive momentum going into next season, no such luck. Should have just skipped this inferior postseason tourneys altogether. Of course all the good official are going to be officiating NCAA tourney games this weekend.

Next on the list, who’s gonna enter the transfer portal.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - Hieronymus - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 09:20 PM)PVTree Wrote: This train wreck of a season mercifully ends with another disappointing loss. Time to turn the page and hope the new blood has more fight in them.

The worst part is Portland really didn’t play well at all, and it was still enough to win.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - old spanish trail - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 09:04 PM)mbdude Wrote: I sure hope we see a change of offense next year
Shearer, the portland guard, can't be guarded by Heal but paye hasn't changed that

Totally agree with this and at least 4 times Port cleared out the paint and sent Shearer in there where she was guarded (not) by Heal for a two foot jumper or layup.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - triangle2 - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 09:18 PM)CompSci87 Wrote: The refs were horrible, but so was our offense. We should have been able to score enough to overcome the bad calls.

I had this flippant but sadly accurate thought go through my head. "We weren't good enough to make the NCAA tournament. Neither was Chuck."

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - petersalas - 03-20-2025

It’s sad that Courtney got the start and had a bad game. I thought this was going to be a great momentum builder for next season. In the first half we got the Stanford from the beginning of the season and the second half was the Stanford we had seen lost time and time again. We went from 40 first half points to 20 in the second half. What a terrible turnaround. But we should have expected it. Then in the OT period, Stanford started quick and had momentum until Nunu decided to throw it to half court to Portland instead of the two teammates she had closer to her. I should have left then, instead I’m getting home late and have to be up early for work. On the bright side; Sunday just cleared up…

I am pouting tonight because I am disappointed in this season, but remain hopeful for the turnaround next season.

The new uniforms were nice.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - M T - 03-20-2025

Stanford got Chucked tonight.

Chuck Gonzalez, Saif Esho, Lorena Ahumada

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - 81alum - 03-20-2025

I believe this game was the least well attended game this year. They closed off the upper level completely and the bottom level was sparse. It was very quiet much of the time. It hardly seemed like a home advantage.

EDIT: Attendance was 1106. Absolutely horrific. I don't remember a game that bad since I began watching Stanford WBB.

Agara's charging foul at the end, which erased a basket and disqualified her, really was the turning point. I don't know if the call was correct or not, but for the second year in a row we end our season with our star offensive player fouling out with offensive fouls.

Our offense was very strong in the second quarter, but something changed in the second half. I can't quite figure out what it was. We scored more points in the 2nd quarter than in the entire second half put together. In the second half we seemed to have real problems penetrating, even though Portland was closely guarding the line. I don't know why.

Interesting stat: Portland started 4 grad students and a senior. We started 2 seniors and 3 sophomores. Furthermore, most of the Portland players had started for several years--they were mostly the same starters we played last year and the year before. Only 1 of our players had started any games before this year. I'm absolutely convinced that experience really, really matters. Not the only thing that matters, of course.

Ogden got a start, but she had a very weak game offensively. MAS had no points at a time we needed them, with the other bigs in foul trouble. Demetre continued her hot/cold issues and was 0/4 from three point range. This particular team always seemed to lose when Demetre was cold, and always seemed to win when she was hot. At least Agara looked like her old self.

I was disappointed that Harriel did not get a single minute in her last game at Maples.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - petersalas - 03-20-2025

I really don’t want Kate to become the type of coach to complain all game long, but if you look at the ones that do, they seem win more games. This was the worst officiated game
I’ve been to and it’s almost as if the refs had to make calls to keep Portland ok.

(03-20-2025, 10:08 PM)M T Wrote: Stanford got Chucked tonight.

Chuck Gonzalez, Saif Esho, Lorena Ahumada

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - TonyLima - 03-20-2025

Pretty sure this has been posted, but just in case … The state of women’s basketball officiating.

RE: WBB: Postseason tournament - UltimateCard - 03-20-2025

(03-20-2025, 10:20 PM)81alum Wrote: I believe this game was the least well attended game this year. They closed off the upper level completely and the bottom level was sparse. It was very quiet much of the time. It hardly seemed like a home advantage.

EDIT: Attendance was 1106. Absolutely horrific. I don't remember a game that bad since I began watching Stanford WBB.

Yes, very disappointing. So quiet that I could clearly hear the Portland coach yell from the other end of the court. Guess the combo of finals week and being in the consolation tourney dampened support for our team.

Quote:Agara's charging foul at the end, which erased a basket and disqualified her, really was the turning point. I don't know if the call was correct or not, but for the second year in a row we end our season with our star offensive player fouling out with offensive fouls.

I thought the earlier bogus charging foul, which was overturned after review, was when things really went south. Nullified the basket that came on the dump off, and from that point on, it was seemingly 5-on-8.

Quote:Our offense was very strong in the second quarter, but something changed in the second half. I can't quite figure out what it was. We scored more points in the 2nd quarter than in the entire second half put together. In the second half we seemed to have real problems penetrating, even though Portland was closely guarding the line. I don't know why.

Portland’s light full court pressure shortened the shot clock for us. By the time we got into the front court, we’d have only 20 seconds or so to then figure out the zone defense and how to run something against it. In the first half, we attacked after breaking the press; in the second, we let them recover and set the defense. Maddening.

Quote:Interesting stat: Portland started 4 grad students and a senior. We started 2 seniors and 3 sophomores. Furthermore, most of the Portland players had started for several years--they were mostly the same starters we played last year and the year before. Only 1 of our players had started any games before this year. I'm absolutely convinced that experience really, really matters. Not the only thing that matters, of

Ogden got a start, but she had a very weak game offensively. MAS had no points at a time we needed them, with the other bigs in foul trouble. Demetre continued her hot/cold issues and was 0/4 from three point range. This particular team always seemed to lose when Demetre was cold, and always seemed to win when she was hot. At least Agara looked like her old self.
course.

Experience does matter. But this team also didn’t seem to have clutch players who would step up in crunch time.