[Hulk01]

That dark lining is still there.

Against a much shorter team, we got 35.7% of the rebounds at our basket, and 64.1% of the rebounds at their basket.

In the first game, it was 35.3% and 59.1%.

MT, there's a tale of three Stanford teams here.
With Brink in the lineup, we probably get 70%+ of the available rebounds on the defensive glass.
With Belibi and Prechtel together, we're probably close to 65%.
But without Brink and with only Belibi or Prechtel as our "big," the percentage might dip below 60%--
and even more when she needs to rest Haley, Stanford's second best defensive rebounder.


It's a question of trade offs.  Coach likes to have our two senior guards, Lexie, and Haley on the court as much as possible,
partly because she believes defense always finds its level while offense is one night the hoops a tea cup, the next night it's an ocean.
That leaves for only one of Brink, Belibi and Prechtel, and she is bringing Brink along slowly, which opens us up more on defensive glass.

And I also think Tara was confident that the key to the games was shutting down the Legler-Walkers and pressuring the deep shots,
which sometimes ends up softening the middle.  And missed deeper shots tend to produce long rebounds that take away some of the defensive rebounders advantage.

[Hulk01]

That dark lining is still there.

Against a much shorter team, we got 35.7% of the rebounds at our basket, and 64.1% of the rebounds at their basket.

In the first game, it was 35.3% and 59.1%.

MT, there's a tale of three Stanford teams here.
With Brink in the lineup, we probably get 70%+ of the available rebounds on the defensive glass.
With Belibi and Prechtel together, we're probably close to 65%.
But without Brink and with only Belibi or Prechtel as our "big," the percentage might dip below 60%--
and even more when she needs to rest Haley, Stanford's second best defensive rebounder.


It's a question of trade offs.  Coach likes to have our two senior guards, Lexie, and Haley on the court as much as possible,
partly because she believes defense always finds its level while offense is one night the hoops a tea cup, the next night it's an ocean.
That leaves for only one of Brink, Belibi and Prechtel, and she is bringing Brink along slowly, which opens us up more on defensive glass.

And I also think Tara was confident that the key to the games was shutting down the Legler-Walkers and pressuring the deep shots,
which sometimes ends up softening the middle.  And missed deeper shots tend to produce long rebounds that take away some of the defensive rebounders advantage.