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WBB: Stanford 65, Oregon State 45, Chiney career high 32 pts - 81alum - 02-03-2013

Only 1200 people showed up on Super Bowl Sunday to watch Chiney set a new career high in points with 32.  Another notable and very welcome development was the return of Bonnie "The Bomber" Samuelson, who was 4/5 from three for 12 points--all in a mere 11 minutes of play.  I can't wait to see what MT's 40 minute adjusted margin shows for Bonnie!  Amber also had an outstanding game, with 8 assists and 12 points. 

Unfortunately, that was all there was to our offense.  Joslyn had another of her disappearing games with 1/8, Toni had 0 points, and Sara was 1/5 from 3 for 3 points, and no one else stepped up.  I'd like to say that Bonnie's threes opened things up for Chiney, but that simply wasn't the case, since Bonnie was in for so few minutes.  Instead, this was the Amber and Chiney show.  Amber successfully got the ball to Chiney over and over, and Chiney was making easy shots and not-so-easy shots both look easy.  Chiney was 12/24 and her free throw shooting was off a tad, with 8/14.  Overall we had 15 assists on 25 made baskets--but shot only 38.5%.

Clearly, anytime you hold a team to 45 points your defense has done something well, and I would say this game fits our typical pattern this year--won by the defense with the offense moving in fits and starts.  We raced out to an early lead but then kept letting Oregon State claw their way back when our offense would cool down. 

Finally a game in which we accumulated a substantial rebounding advantage:  38 rebounds to their 27.  We had 12 offensive rebounds, many of which were Chiney putting her misses back.  She had 18 rebounds, for her 17th double-double of the season!

Also on the plus side was good ball handling--we had only 8 turnovers.  On the other hand, neither of the Oregon schools pressed much or seemed to have the tenacious P2P defenses that might spoil that margin.

This weekend appeared to show improvements in rebounding and ball handling, better passing, and continued good defense.  Combine that today with a career performance from Chiney and we got by despite our normal offensive inconsistency.

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Re: WBB: Stanford 65, Oregon State 45, Chiney career high 32 pts - CompSci87 - 02-04-2013

I don't feel too bad about players other than Chiney not scoring. OSU was single covering her most of the time, so passing it into Chiney and letting her work was almost always our best option.

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Re: WBB: Stanford 65, Oregon State 45, Chiney career high 32 pts - M T - 02-04-2013


I wasn't particularly impressed with either game this weekend.  Sure we won easily, but neither was the kind of performance Stanford seems capable of.  Further, we didn't get the kind of time out of the subs to improve them for this year, or for next year's players to develop.

On the other hand, I am glad they had decent games and that no one was hurt.

Why, against a 9-13 team, should Chiney play 36 minutes?  Yeah, she did get her career high points, and nearly got career high rebounds.  I guess it gives her some press, guarantees her another PAC-12 Player of the Week, and maybe some national player of the week honors.  I'm sure it is a good feeling for her, but I liked her noting that it was a career high in missed FT.  She got some time playing against a 6'6" player -- that is good.  But she was put at risk for an injury, and, perhaps more importantly, the subs didn't get time in the game.  Frankly, I thought Tara didn't run up scores or stats.  If she had something else in mind, I'm not sure what it was.  (Chiney was half way there with something like 17pts and 9 rebounds in the first half; that may have had something to do with going for the record.)

Would you say it was encouraging, or disappointing, that essentially half our points were scored by one player?  I'd say disappointing.  I certainly had the feeling that it was an Amber & Chiney show.  I wonder if that was Tara's intent for today's game?  Scoring-wise, wasn't this a lot like the South Carolina game that bothered most of us, except the other team wasn't as close? 

Number of shots (FGA) by Chiney in each game this year:
14, 14, 14, 10, 16, 9, 14, 16, 18, 16, 19, 22(UConn), 13, 19, 16, 13, 15, 18, 15, 11, 13, 24(OSU)
% of our shot attempts by the 2 players shooting the most attempts:
49, 40, 43, 41, 43, 43, 41, 57(Gonzaga), 48, 62 (So Carolina), 51(Tenn), 58 (UConn), 50, 50, 51(at C.al), 46, 49, 47, 42, 39, 39, 60(OSU)

Regarding Jos's shooting:  The stats indicate Jos missed 5 layups, 1 jumper, and 1 3-ptr.  The first missed layup was a post move from the left block with a hook from directly in front of the basket.  The second miss (labelled a jumper) was exactly the same shot, but maybe a foot further out.  The third miss (a layup) was a step-through (off the backboard) from the right block.  She gets her own rebound and quickly throws up a poor shot (4th miss, a layup) from the left side that loops over the basket.  A few seconds later, she makes a shot (labelled a jumper, her only basket of the game) that was almost the same as the 2nd miss, but she wasn't quite directly in front of the basket, about 6' out (still no backboard).  Her 5th miss was that right-handed hook again, but from the right block, and off the backboard.  I wouldn't call that a high percentage shot, as the first two misses were.  Those were all in the first 15 minutes.  I guess Tara changed what they were doing, or Jos got cold feet, or no one was feeding her, or the defense kept her from getting the ball in positions, as Jos's next shot isn't form 11 minutes of playing time.  That miss (layup) is again starts in the left block and is a hook, shooting from about 6' straight in front of the basket, as the shot clock is down to 3.  (Jos disappoints me here as she gave up on going for a rebound, but she could have helped corral it.)  She gets charged with an offensive foul (ie, turnover) on what appears to me to be a clean, stationary pick.  Her final miss was a in-rhythm 3ptr air ball with about 10 minutes to go in the game.  It seems pretty clear she wasn't aggressively shooting in the 2nd half, with only 2 attempts.

Team stats:  I was glad to see it was the 4th time this season we had under 10 fouls for the entire game, limiting them to just 5 FTA.  At 10 of 18, this was our 3rd worst FT%.  Not as gaudy as last time, but it was our 4th best A/FG ratio.  Both games this weekend had just 8 TO, which tie with 2 more games as the second best of the season.  (But Friday's game was more impressive, since the subs played more.)  We easily won the rebounding battle with OR%(41%) +DR% (83%) = 124% (3rd best).  If you didn't notice, our 2PT% (39%) was the second worst of the season.  OSU had 6 blocks, the most against us this season.  We had 12 more FGA attempts than them, our most of the season.  Our 7 more steals than them tied for the most of the season.  Their 5 more blocks than us was the worst of the season.  Our 11 more 2nd chance points was second best of the season.

Amber (38min), Chiney (36min), Jos (35min) weren't out of the game long enough for the statistics while on the bench to be meaningful.  The only ones that the last column is meaningful for are Taylor, Sara, Toni, Mikaela, and Bonnie.

Stanford 65, OSU 45

I was a bit surprised that Toni's on-court time was low in team offense, and more surprised that team defense was better with her on the bench!  When Mikaela was on court, Stanford lost points to OSU.  I was pleasantly surprised that when Taylor was on the court, Stanford was particularly successful at defense.  While Sara was on court, even though she only got a single 3-pt basket, Stanford did well on offense.  When she was on the bench, the score was only Stanford 24, OSU 21.  Bonnie's 4 of 5 threes certainly helped the on-court offense while she was in.  Her defense wasn't a problem.

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