03-09-2012, 03:11 PM
Couldn't watch today, but it sounded like two things:
(1) The game was essentially no blood, no foul. Not called closely, evenly or well. Let me put it this way: in the first half, Stanford was called for 2 fouls, and ASU 9 or so. In the second half, Stanford was called for 7 fouls before ASU was called for its third. And the game wasn't being played that differently. It felt like a game of rugby. And then there were the occasional hand-check fouls, called seemingly at random. Just not good.
(2) Stanford couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. From 2 feet away. And then got scared to shoot, and started to try to run out the clock way too early. How about 0-10 from 3 pt range? And in the second half, a grand total of 1 field goal in the last TWELVE MINUTES, and FOUR in the entire second half. Very poor composure down the stretch.
That being said, an okay defensive performance. Zero points from the bench. Everyone not named Ogwumike shot a combined 4-29.
Blech. More later.
VG
(1) The game was essentially no blood, no foul. Not called closely, evenly or well. Let me put it this way: in the first half, Stanford was called for 2 fouls, and ASU 9 or so. In the second half, Stanford was called for 7 fouls before ASU was called for its third. And the game wasn't being played that differently. It felt like a game of rugby. And then there were the occasional hand-check fouls, called seemingly at random. Just not good.
(2) Stanford couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. From 2 feet away. And then got scared to shoot, and started to try to run out the clock way too early. How about 0-10 from 3 pt range? And in the second half, a grand total of 1 field goal in the last TWELVE MINUTES, and FOUR in the entire second half. Very poor composure down the stretch.
That being said, an okay defensive performance. Zero points from the bench. Everyone not named Ogwumike shot a combined 4-29.
Blech. More later.
VG