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As usual, a great write-up by 81alum.  I kinda hate to use it as the points to provide counterpoints against, but it is convenient.

As a team, we turned the ball over too many times, although this was largely corrected in the second half. 

Interestingly, each team was credited with 5 steals.  Colorado was averaging 13+ steals per game, so  "way too many" turnovers is also "fewer turnovers than all other P12 opponents".  (TO by P12 opponents: SC:20, UCLA:16, UA:19, ASU:19, Cal:20, Stanford:14).

And while we out rebounded Colorado by 10, they actually had one more O-board than we did. 

I read that statement to be a comment that our offensive rebounding was suspect, but it is using that combination of stats that is suspect to me.  We OUTREBOUNDED Colorado under our offensive end.  We got 60.5% of our defensive rebound chances and 53.8% of the offensive rebounding chances!!

Alanna again made the most of her limited time.  While she was just 1/3, she shot her free throws with great confidence (6/7) and gave valuable minutes while Erica was in foul trouble.

Colorado went to their jumbo package and they were pushing around Erica & Kaylee, resulting in fouls for us.  Alanna does better in these situations.  I expect her to get good time against UW.  Nadia is apparently a little green yet, but I expect her to be strong at this in the future.

Bri was critical--especially so with Marta out for much of the second half.  ... Carrington had just 7 minutes but had a fantastic three point stroke, burying two deliberate tries in nothing but net.

When that happened, I thought we'd see more of Carrington & Anna Wilson.

I'm not quite sure why it happened, but when Marta went out (3rd 8:28  41-24), Brittany lit up.  At that point, she had 5 pt, 1A, 3TO, 1F, 1B, 1St.  When she came back about 1.5 quarters later (4th 3:14 82-70), Brittany had added 13pt, 1A, 1TO, 2St.  If I were a Stanford coach, I'd look at that and see why that happened & if there is something that Marta can do to give Brittany more opportunities when they are both on the court.  If you discount which player was scoring, Stanford scored 41 points in that 1.5 quarters (that's a rate of 109 points in a 40-minute game).  If a team scores like that when one player is out, you should look at what happened.  (To be fair, Stanford only scored 3pts in the first 1:15 of the game before Marta replaced Brittany.)

The Colorado player was responsible for Marta being on the floor in the first place. She backed into Bird (no call), knocking her backward into Marta and sending both of them to the floor. Then she continued backing up, tripped over one of her victims (Marta) and landed on Marta's head. Talk about a bull in a china shop!

It was great to see Marta back in the game later, looking cheerful and unfazed. She didn't even have a band-aid on over her stitches.

What I saw was that the feet of Marta and Bird collided, resulting in a twisted ankle for Marta with Bird's foot on it.  That took down Marta, and then Bird.  The Colorado player, unaware of the players on the ground, was backing up and felt something under her feet. Rather than stepping hard on the uneven surface, she instead fell, landing on the head of Marta who was just raising her head. Had she not been raising her head, I think she would have been better off.

I felt the worst play was of the officials.  Anita Ortega repeatedly called fouls (against Stanford) that weren't there when looked at in good views on slow replay.  (I'm not saying she was unfair, but I only was looking at fouls called against Stanford.  Interesting...the two officials other than Missy, are both former players of WBB teams in the PAC-12 (neither of the this game's teams), and in their school's hall of fame.  It is not surprising that former players become officials.)  I tend to think some officials call fouls like someone might predict rain in Seattle in the fall.  If you are in Florida in November and say it is raining in Seattle, most likely you are right.  But if you are wrong, your ability to call rain in Seattle should be questioned.    Some of the calls Sunday were pretty bad.  I remember one where a foul might have been called on the shot, but the whistle wasn't blown until after the shooter had rebounded the ball (from the underside of the basket) and lost it out of bounds.  I was shocked that it was supposedly a shooting foul.

I loved seeing the team running plays for Karlie to get shots off, and it paid off.  I have a lot of respect for how Karlie plays all aspects of the game.

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As usual, a great write-up by 81alum.  I kinda hate to use it as the points to provide counterpoints against, but it is convenient.

As a team, we turned the ball over too many times, although this was largely corrected in the second half. 

Interestingly, each team was credited with 5 steals.  Colorado was averaging 13+ steals per game, so  "way too many" turnovers is also "fewer turnovers than all other P12 opponents".  (TO by P12 opponents: SC:20, UCLA:16, UA:19, ASU:19, Cal:20, Stanford:14).

And while we out rebounded Colorado by 10, they actually had one more O-board than we did. 

I read that statement to be a comment that our offensive rebounding was suspect, but it is using that combination of stats that is suspect to me.  We OUTREBOUNDED Colorado under our offensive end.  We got 60.5% of our defensive rebound chances and 53.8% of the offensive rebounding chances!!

Alanna again made the most of her limited time.  While she was just 1/3, she shot her free throws with great confidence (6/7) and gave valuable minutes while Erica was in foul trouble.

Colorado went to their jumbo package and they were pushing around Erica & Kaylee, resulting in fouls for us.  Alanna does better in these situations.  I expect her to get good time against UW.  Nadia is apparently a little green yet, but I expect her to be strong at this in the future.

Bri was critical--especially so with Marta out for much of the second half.  ... Carrington had just 7 minutes but had a fantastic three point stroke, burying two deliberate tries in nothing but net.

When that happened, I thought we'd see more of Carrington & Anna Wilson.

I'm not quite sure why it happened, but when Marta went out (3rd 8:28  41-24), Brittany lit up.  At that point, she had 5 pt, 1A, 3TO, 1F, 1B, 1St.  When she came back about 1.5 quarters later (4th 3:14 82-70), Brittany had added 13pt, 1A, 1TO, 2St.  If I were a Stanford coach, I'd look at that and see why that happened & if there is something that Marta can do to give Brittany more opportunities when they are both on the court.  If you discount which player was scoring, Stanford scored 41 points in that 1.5 quarters (that's a rate of 109 points in a 40-minute game).  If a team scores like that when one player is out, you should look at what happened.  (To be fair, Stanford only scored 3pts in the first 1:15 of the game before Marta replaced Brittany.)

The Colorado player was responsible for Marta being on the floor in the first place. She backed into Bird (no call), knocking her backward into Marta and sending both of them to the floor. Then she continued backing up, tripped over one of her victims (Marta) and landed on Marta's head. Talk about a bull in a china shop!

It was great to see Marta back in the game later, looking cheerful and unfazed. She didn't even have a band-aid on over her stitches.

What I saw was that the feet of Marta and Bird collided, resulting in a twisted ankle for Marta with Bird's foot on it.  That took down Marta, and then Bird.  The Colorado player, unaware of the players on the ground, was backing up and felt something under her feet. Rather than stepping hard on the uneven surface, she instead fell, landing on the head of Marta who was just raising her head. Had she not been raising her head, I think she would have been better off.

I felt the worst play was of the officials.  Anita Ortega repeatedly called fouls (against Stanford) that weren't there when looked at in good views on slow replay.  (I'm not saying she was unfair, but I only was looking at fouls called against Stanford.  Interesting...the two officials other than Missy, are both former players of WBB teams in the PAC-12 (neither of the this game's teams), and in their school's hall of fame.  It is not surprising that former players become officials.)  I tend to think some officials call fouls like someone might predict rain in Seattle in the fall.  If you are in Florida in November and say it is raining in Seattle, most likely you are right.  But if you are wrong, your ability to call rain in Seattle should be questioned.    Some of the calls Sunday were pretty bad.  I remember one where a foul might have been called on the shot, but the whistle wasn't blown until after the shooter had rebounded the ball (from the underside of the basket) and lost it out of bounds.  I was shocked that it was supposedly a shooting foul.

I loved seeing the team running plays for Karlie to get shots off, and it paid off.  I have a lot of respect for how Karlie plays all aspects of the game.