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You remember the last game, right? Oregon had just barely gotten its leading three players back from injury before we played them. It was a little like a February team going up against a November team. Even so, they gave us a fight except that Lexie dropped a career high 33 points on them.
https://thecardboard.org/board/showthrea...#pid340286
Since that game Oregon has had its ups and downs, but it is hanging on to 2nd place in the Pac 12, 1/2 a game ahead of Arizona and 1 game ahead of WSU. If we beat them we might drop them to 4th place and set up yet another game against them in the Pac 12 tournament.
Oregon is now 18-8, 10-4 in conference, 26th in AP and 29th in coaches, 15th in Massey, and 10th in Net. The disparate rankings indicate some disparate performances. They barely edged Cal last night and lost to Oregon State the game before that. On the other hand, they walloped Washington State 83-30 which the NET probably enjoyed.
I won't repeat the player by player breakdowns you can find in the earlier thread. However it is notable that last night against a surprisingly scrappy and defensive Cal Oregon was led by Rogers and Prince with Sabally receding into the background with 4 points, Paopao with 7, Scherr with 1, Parrish with 0. This despite the fact that those five were all on the floor for significant minutes. Also watch for 6'8" Kyei coming off the bench. She had 8 points in 9 minutes. Hurst off the bench is their leading three point shooter at 39%. 10 players average at least 10 minutes. In short, Oregon is deeper than it was last time we played them, but it seems it can be up and down in performance. My guess is we will get their best game and not a down game, and that their lackluster performance against Cal may have been do to players looking past Cal to us. But like all good teams, they found a way to win last night despite not being at their best.
One has to believe that Oregon will make a special effort against Lexie after she torched them. We can expect to see plenty of zone until we start hitting treys, and the corner trey is the easiest to make against Oregon's typical zone. I wonder if Graves will try out some new defensive wrinkle to keep Jump and the Hulls from bombing from the corner.
You remember the last game, right? Oregon had just barely gotten its leading three players back from injury before we played them. It was a little like a February team going up against a November team. Even so, they gave us a fight except that Lexie dropped a career high 33 points on them.
https://thecardboard.org/board/showthrea...#pid340286
Since that game Oregon has had its ups and downs, but it is hanging on to 2nd place in the Pac 12, 1/2 a game ahead of Arizona and 1 game ahead of WSU. If we beat them we might drop them to 4th place and set up yet another game against them in the Pac 12 tournament.
Oregon is now 18-8, 10-4 in conference, 26th in AP and 29th in coaches, 15th in Massey, and 10th in Net. The disparate rankings indicate some disparate performances. They barely edged Cal last night and lost to Oregon State the game before that. On the other hand, they walloped Washington State 83-30 which the NET probably enjoyed.
I won't repeat the player by player breakdowns you can find in the earlier thread. However it is notable that last night against a surprisingly scrappy and defensive Cal Oregon was led by Rogers and Prince with Sabally receding into the background with 4 points, Paopao with 7, Scherr with 1, Parrish with 0. This despite the fact that those five were all on the floor for significant minutes. Also watch for 6'8" Kyei coming off the bench. She had 8 points in 9 minutes. Hurst off the bench is their leading three point shooter at 39%. 10 players average at least 10 minutes. In short, Oregon is deeper than it was last time we played them, but it seems it can be up and down in performance. My guess is we will get their best game and not a down game, and that their lackluster performance against Cal may have been do to players looking past Cal to us. But like all good teams, they found a way to win last night despite not being at their best.
One has to believe that Oregon will make a special effort against Lexie after she torched them. We can expect to see plenty of zone until we start hitting treys, and the corner trey is the easiest to make against Oregon's typical zone. I wonder if Graves will try out some new defensive wrinkle to keep Jump and the Hulls from bombing from the corner.
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