[M T]

Stats at
http://pac-12.com/livestats/livestats.as...atform=pac

Half:
Stanford 9/32 28%  3PT 0/1  FT 9/12  OR: 12 DR: 12  5A 3Blk 6TO 6Fouls (no more than 1 per person)
Colo 11/29  38%  3PT 3/9  FT  3/4  OR: 5  DR: 12  5A 3Blk 6TO  12Fouls (3 players with 2)

Chiney has 14Pts, 4+6=10Rb

Amongst other things, we're not getting in position for 3PT shots.  Jos has been seemingly ineffective because she's been on the move when she has shot.

Assuming Stanford wins, which I still expect, this rough play will help us be better prepared for what we may face.
Halftime: 27-28
2nd half:
15:51  Some nice plays by individuals:  Chiney, Sara (great take of charge on a fast break), and Amber (2 steals & a drive).  Perhaps they've been inspired?
11:58 41-36  Stanford is playing a little calmer.  Officials are still letting a lot go.  A little lead, but 3s can eat that up in a hurry.
10:38 45-36 (14-8 in 2nd)  Chiney has 18 pts + 10 reb.  Biggest lead at 9 pts.  Stanford shooting now at 34% vs Colo. 33%.  Just had good play by Ruef.
7:30  51-40  Like an irresistible force, it seems Stanford is stretching the lead little by little.  We just had a beautiful poke away by Chiney & a fast break.  That was a shot they weren't going to stop.  Good, hard pick by Ruef.
6:03 53-40  Biggest lead.  Ruef Greenfield has 4 fouls.
3:57 55-42  The game has stagnated a bit, but we are still at a 13 point lead.
1:22 57-47  1 Buff fouled out.  Stanford not remembering to drain the clock.

FINAL: 61-47
Stanford:  19/55 34.5%  3PT 1/3 33%  FT 22/29 75.9% 16 OR 27 DR  9A 5Blk 12 Fouls 6 Steals 10 TO
Colorado: 19/64 29.7%  3PT 6/16 37.5%  FT 3/4 75%  15OR 22DR  10A 4Blk 22 Fouls 4 Steals 15 TO

2nd half  10/23  only 4TOs in 2nd half.  4 OR, 15DR (vs 10 OR, 10 DR). 

It is very good to see Stanford defense stiffen up after being tested.  We won the 2nd half 34 - 19. 

[M T]

Stats at
http://pac-12.com/livestats/livestats.as...atform=pac

Half:
Stanford 9/32 28%  3PT 0/1  FT 9/12  OR: 12 DR: 12  5A 3Blk 6TO 6Fouls (no more than 1 per person)
Colo 11/29  38%  3PT 3/9  FT  3/4  OR: 5  DR: 12  5A 3Blk 6TO  12Fouls (3 players with 2)

Chiney has 14Pts, 4+6=10Rb

Amongst other things, we're not getting in position for 3PT shots.  Jos has been seemingly ineffective because she's been on the move when she has shot.

Assuming Stanford wins, which I still expect, this rough play will help us be better prepared for what we may face.
Halftime: 27-28
2nd half:
15:51  Some nice plays by individuals:  Chiney, Sara (great take of charge on a fast break), and Amber (2 steals & a drive).  Perhaps they've been inspired?
11:58 41-36  Stanford is playing a little calmer.  Officials are still letting a lot go.  A little lead, but 3s can eat that up in a hurry.
10:38 45-36 (14-8 in 2nd)  Chiney has 18 pts + 10 reb.  Biggest lead at 9 pts.  Stanford shooting now at 34% vs Colo. 33%.  Just had good play by Ruef.
7:30  51-40  Like an irresistible force, it seems Stanford is stretching the lead little by little.  We just had a beautiful poke away by Chiney & a fast break.  That was a shot they weren't going to stop.  Good, hard pick by Ruef.
6:03 53-40  Biggest lead.  Ruef Greenfield has 4 fouls.
3:57 55-42  The game has stagnated a bit, but we are still at a 13 point lead.
1:22 57-47  1 Buff fouled out.  Stanford not remembering to drain the clock.

FINAL: 61-47
Stanford:  19/55 34.5%  3PT 1/3 33%  FT 22/29 75.9% 16 OR 27 DR  9A 5Blk 12 Fouls 6 Steals 10 TO
Colorado: 19/64 29.7%  3PT 6/16 37.5%  FT 3/4 75%  15OR 22DR  10A 4Blk 22 Fouls 4 Steals 15 TO

2nd half  10/23  only 4TOs in 2nd half.  4 OR, 15DR (vs 10 OR, 10 DR). 

It is very good to see Stanford defense stiffen up after being tested.  We won the 2nd half 34 - 19. 

[81alum]

Chiney has gotten her double double, but not with any efficiency.  The refs are letting a lot of hacking and arms go.  She is 6/14.  Amber has a couple of baskets, no one else more than one.  Joslyn has struggled.  This reminds me a little too much of our offense against UConn.

We are 0-1 from three.

Good news on Bonnie, that she was back in the game, so I guess there was no concussion.

The main stat:  we are shooting 28% and Colorado is shooting 38%.

[81alum]

Chiney has gotten her double double, but not with any efficiency.  The refs are letting a lot of hacking and arms go.  She is 6/14.  Amber has a couple of baskets, no one else more than one.  Joslyn has struggled.  This reminds me a little too much of our offense against UConn.

We are 0-1 from three.

Good news on Bonnie, that she was back in the game, so I guess there was no concussion.

The main stat:  we are shooting 28% and Colorado is shooting 38%.

[treefan]

WAY too physical of a game. Geez.

We need to TAKE and hit some outside shots!

[treefan]

WAY too physical of a game. Geez.

We need to TAKE and hit some outside shots!

[M T]

Start of 2nd half.  Is Stanford's idea to keep Chiney away from basket, and crash for rebounding?  Keep it from being so crowded underneath?

Beautiful taking charge by Sara!

[M T]

Start of 2nd half.  Is Stanford's idea to keep Chiney away from basket, and crash for rebounding?  Keep it from being so crowded underneath?

Beautiful taking charge by Sara!

[treefan]

Chiney is playing great, especially after getting mauled all game.

Ruef two key baskets too. Need to put hammer down!

[treefan]

Chiney is playing great, especially after getting mauled all game.

Ruef two key baskets too. Need to put hammer down!

[treefan]

Congrats Cardinal. Amber and Chiney had great game, with some awesome help by Ruef and James.

[treefan]

Congrats Cardinal. Amber and Chiney had great game, with some awesome help by Ruef and James.

[M T]

After the game, the UCLA coach indicated to her team (on camera) it would be a "completely different game plan" tomorrow.

[M T]

After the game, the UCLA coach indicated to her team (on camera) it would be a "completely different game plan" tomorrow.

[81alum]

Stanford was behind by a point at the half, but survived this bludgeoning by scoring 22 points on free throws.  Overall, we shot only 34%, but converted a 4 point deficit to a 9 point lead during the first 10 minutes of the second half.  Perhaps the key play was a steal and a layup by Chiney with 9 minutes left in the game.

In the first half our Chiney-centric offense looked fairly stagnant, and while Chiney got her points, few others were contributing on offense.  Meanwhile, Chuckie Jeffrey looked very hard to stop as she darted to the right and left of our taller players.  It was a defensive battle with the refs letting way too much contact go uncalled.

In the second half, though, other players began to score some.  Amber Orrange wound up with 13 points--mostly with drives and free throws.  Mikaela Ruef showed much more willingness to drive too, and she wound up with 11 points. 

That proved to be enough to open things up some more for Chiney, too.  Chiney finished with 25 points and 19 rebounds, but she was just 9/24.  There were many times when she was obviously whacked or pushed and no foul was called.  But I also get the feeling that Chiney's shot was a little off tonight--it was not all good Colorado defense, but she missed a couple of easy layups and also some not-so-easy shots that she would normally make.

For one reason or another, Tara decided that this game would not involve many three point attempts, and we took just 3 attempts, with Sara making the only trey.  Maybe for this reason Bonnie did not play that much--only two minutes, or maybe they are being cautious about a concussion--but then why play her at all?  Actually, I remember Tara talking earlier this year about games being called too physically, and mentioning that "Bonnie doesn't have a chance in those games."  In that same interview I think she said "but this game was nothing like the Colorado game."  She went on to describe the first Colorado game as the most rugby-like game we played all year, so perhaps this was not a surprise to her.

Joslyn had a rough game.  The reporters said she "had been feeling under the weather" and it showed.  She was just 1/9, and late in the game when Colorado was threatening to cut into our lead she took and missed a jumpshot with ample time left on the shot clock.  Tara was not pleased.  I noticed that much of our run to get the lead back came with Taylor, Ruef, and Chiney as our bigs tonight.  Tinkle got less time than any of the other starters--again, perhaps she was not feeling well.

Tomorrow will be a fascinating game against UCLA, which looked like a completely different team than the one we walloped twice before.  It is a dangerous match up.  UCLA will be completely loose with nothing to lose.  And confident after beating the team that beat us.  They will have a psychological edge.  And they have 4 starters who can certainly match up with us.

[81alum]

Stanford was behind by a point at the half, but survived this bludgeoning by scoring 22 points on free throws.  Overall, we shot only 34%, but converted a 4 point deficit to a 9 point lead during the first 10 minutes of the second half.  Perhaps the key play was a steal and a layup by Chiney with 9 minutes left in the game.

In the first half our Chiney-centric offense looked fairly stagnant, and while Chiney got her points, few others were contributing on offense.  Meanwhile, Chuckie Jeffrey looked very hard to stop as she darted to the right and left of our taller players.  It was a defensive battle with the refs letting way too much contact go uncalled.

In the second half, though, other players began to score some.  Amber Orrange wound up with 13 points--mostly with drives and free throws.  Mikaela Ruef showed much more willingness to drive too, and she wound up with 11 points. 

That proved to be enough to open things up some more for Chiney, too.  Chiney finished with 25 points and 19 rebounds, but she was just 9/24.  There were many times when she was obviously whacked or pushed and no foul was called.  But I also get the feeling that Chiney's shot was a little off tonight--it was not all good Colorado defense, but she missed a couple of easy layups and also some not-so-easy shots that she would normally make.

For one reason or another, Tara decided that this game would not involve many three point attempts, and we took just 3 attempts, with Sara making the only trey.  Maybe for this reason Bonnie did not play that much--only two minutes, or maybe they are being cautious about a concussion--but then why play her at all?  Actually, I remember Tara talking earlier this year about games being called too physically, and mentioning that "Bonnie doesn't have a chance in those games."  In that same interview I think she said "but this game was nothing like the Colorado game."  She went on to describe the first Colorado game as the most rugby-like game we played all year, so perhaps this was not a surprise to her.

Joslyn had a rough game.  The reporters said she "had been feeling under the weather" and it showed.  She was just 1/9, and late in the game when Colorado was threatening to cut into our lead she took and missed a jumpshot with ample time left on the shot clock.  Tara was not pleased.  I noticed that much of our run to get the lead back came with Taylor, Ruef, and Chiney as our bigs tonight.  Tinkle got less time than any of the other starters--again, perhaps she was not feeling well.

Tomorrow will be a fascinating game against UCLA, which looked like a completely different team than the one we walloped twice before.  It is a dangerous match up.  UCLA will be completely loose with nothing to lose.  And confident after beating the team that beat us.  They will have a psychological edge.  And they have 4 starters who can certainly match up with us.

[Viking_Guy]

A couple of thoughts:

(1) Jos is fairly obviously under the weather; not a lot of lift in her legs, and tonight she sat for a lot of time, replaced by Taylor.  Actually, I like that lineup - Orrange, James, Greenfield, Ogwumike and Ruef - a lot; Taylor is a more fluid perimeter player than Jos, who is not much of a danger to drive.  Tinkle finished 1-9 from the field, and was so out of it late that she took an early long jumper only 12-13 seconds into the shot clock as Stanford was trying to run the clock out late, and enabled the transition bucket that let the Buffaloes cut the lead to ten and really gave them new life.  If she had taken the ball to the hoop, that would've been one thing, but a 12-foot jumper in that situation isn't a good shot.

(2) The defense was exactly what Ros said last night, and what I agreed was the best chance against Stanford: pressure the guards on the perimeter to prevent easy entry passes and open looks, and try to force the Cardinal to put the ball on the floor and drive.  In part, I think that's why Amber was so successful tonight; if she got around her player, no interior defender was willing to come off of Chiney to pick her up.  The ball pressure also took away good looks at 3 pointers (until Stanford actually started to set some perimeter picks in the second half).  The other thing I'd really love to see against that kind of defense?  How about some pick and roll with Chiney?

(3) The officiating was also one of the varieties of awful.  In this case, I think the officials saw that, calling the game as they intended to at the start, Colorado put Stanford in the bonus in the first ten minutes, and that they had only called one or two fouls on the Cardinal.  After that, the whistles seemed to tilt a bit, especially in the last ten minutes of the game, when they called five fouls in a row against Stanford that were not nearly as physical as the run of play under the Cardinal hoop.

(4) Ruef my unsung player of the game; the key run was powered by first Sara James' three, then Mikaela's two drives were 7 of the 9 point run that broke the game open, from 36-all to 45-36 Stanford.  Colorado never got back within 9 after that.

That was really the difference in the two halves; in the second, other people than Amber realized that Chiney's defender was never going to help out, afraid of the dump pass to her.  Sara and Mikaela both took advantage.

Add to that, the Buffaloes really tightened up, and turned into Chucky and the Chuckless.  They abandoned any semblance of team offense.  Holding them to 19 points in the second half is really impressive for Stanford's defense.

Now the Bruins.  We'll see, but (no matter what Cori Close said) that 2-3 zone that the Bruins threw out there today will probably make an appearance.

VG

[Viking_Guy]

A couple of thoughts:

(1) Jos is fairly obviously under the weather; not a lot of lift in her legs, and tonight she sat for a lot of time, replaced by Taylor.  Actually, I like that lineup - Orrange, James, Greenfield, Ogwumike and Ruef - a lot; Taylor is a more fluid perimeter player than Jos, who is not much of a danger to drive.  Tinkle finished 1-9 from the field, and was so out of it late that she took an early long jumper only 12-13 seconds into the shot clock as Stanford was trying to run the clock out late, and enabled the transition bucket that let the Buffaloes cut the lead to ten and really gave them new life.  If she had taken the ball to the hoop, that would've been one thing, but a 12-foot jumper in that situation isn't a good shot.

(2) The defense was exactly what Ros said last night, and what I agreed was the best chance against Stanford: pressure the guards on the perimeter to prevent easy entry passes and open looks, and try to force the Cardinal to put the ball on the floor and drive.  In part, I think that's why Amber was so successful tonight; if she got around her player, no interior defender was willing to come off of Chiney to pick her up.  The ball pressure also took away good looks at 3 pointers (until Stanford actually started to set some perimeter picks in the second half).  The other thing I'd really love to see against that kind of defense?  How about some pick and roll with Chiney?

(3) The officiating was also one of the varieties of awful.  In this case, I think the officials saw that, calling the game as they intended to at the start, Colorado put Stanford in the bonus in the first ten minutes, and that they had only called one or two fouls on the Cardinal.  After that, the whistles seemed to tilt a bit, especially in the last ten minutes of the game, when they called five fouls in a row against Stanford that were not nearly as physical as the run of play under the Cardinal hoop.

(4) Ruef my unsung player of the game; the key run was powered by first Sara James' three, then Mikaela's two drives were 7 of the 9 point run that broke the game open, from 36-all to 45-36 Stanford.  Colorado never got back within 9 after that.

That was really the difference in the two halves; in the second, other people than Amber realized that Chiney's defender was never going to help out, afraid of the dump pass to her.  Sara and Mikaela both took advantage.

Add to that, the Buffaloes really tightened up, and turned into Chucky and the Chuckless.  They abandoned any semblance of team offense.  Holding them to 19 points in the second half is really impressive for Stanford's defense.

Now the Bruins.  We'll see, but (no matter what Cori Close said) that 2-3 zone that the Bruins threw out there today will probably make an appearance.

VG

[treefan]

nice recaps by 81 and VG!

[treefan]

nice recaps by 81 and VG!

[meos]

A tough physical grind it out type of game. The team came out more intense after halftime, and got the job done.

Next UCLA; not sure what to expect from them given how they handled kal. Would help if Jos and Bonnie are more healthy for that game.

[meos]

A tough physical grind it out type of game. The team came out more intense after halftime, and got the job done.

Next UCLA; not sure what to expect from them given how they handled kal. Would help if Jos and Bonnie are more healthy for that game.