[teejers1]

Missed the game, but the stats are ugly on FT shooting.  Lexie was 2-6 at the charity stripe.  Glad to see good production from Iriafen and Demetre.  Did the team seem to be having fun?  It must have been a hard pill to swallow losing to Texas.  But maybe the pill will be medicine against teams that want to play thug ball against us.

Was at the game, a few takes:

1.  Portland is an extremely well-coached team - they were outmanned at every position, yet managed to shoot a good %, due in no small part to coaching plays that gave his players the best chance to succeed.  It was quite impressive.  Even in plays that didn't work, I was impressed.  (Case in point:  after Haley's half-court splash was waved off due to traveling, it was halfcourt out-of-bounds for UP with .6 seconds left.  They ran a play - no TO called - where it was open for at least a look near the hoop (i) had the throw been more to the "right" (or away) side of bucket, and (ii) had Lexie not left her man to deflect pass away);

2.  It looks like TvD has decided to go with Lacie at the 1 . . . we'll see how that works against elite guards (but UP's guards weren't scrubs, by any means).  Like others, am concerned and am wondering what's going on at practice; 

3.  When Stanford passed the ball crisply - as happened on several occasions - it was a thing of beauty, imo, whether or not it finished in a make.  BTW, there were a ton of made finishes in the 10-14 foot range (Jones, Demetre, and Brink) tonight;

4.  Lexie shot poorly, but as someone else noted, she is relentless on D.  And the Twins' height lead to a lot of steals/deflections/disruptions; and 

5.  The less the bench plays, the less they will be confident and ready to step in during crunch time.  That consideration alone should lead to some extended PT for more players.  Tonight I thought Jones and Lexie played too much.  We know what we have with those two, and I never considered this game in jeopardy, even when UP cut it (surprisingly) to 10 points.

[teejers1]

Missed the game, but the stats are ugly on FT shooting.  Lexie was 2-6 at the charity stripe.  Glad to see good production from Iriafen and Demetre.  Did the team seem to be having fun?  It must have been a hard pill to swallow losing to Texas.  But maybe the pill will be medicine against teams that want to play thug ball against us.

Was at the game, a few takes:

1.  Portland is an extremely well-coached team - they were outmanned at every position, yet managed to shoot a good %, due in no small part to coaching plays that gave his players the best chance to succeed.  It was quite impressive.  Even in plays that didn't work, I was impressed.  (Case in point:  after Haley's half-court splash was waved off due to traveling, it was halfcourt out-of-bounds for UP with .6 seconds left.  They ran a play - no TO called - where it was open for at least a look near the hoop (i) had the throw been more to the "right" (or away) side of bucket, and (ii) had Lexie not left her man to deflect pass away);

2.  It looks like TvD has decided to go with Lacie at the 1 . . . we'll see how that works against elite guards (but UP's guards weren't scrubs, by any means).  Like others, am concerned and am wondering what's going on at practice; 

3.  When Stanford passed the ball crisply - as happened on several occasions - it was a thing of beauty, imo, whether or not it finished in a make.  BTW, there were a ton of made finishes in the 10-14 foot range (Jones, Demetre, and Brink) tonight;

4.  Lexie shot poorly, but as someone else noted, she is relentless on D.  And the Twins' height lead to a lot of steals/deflections/disruptions; and 

5.  The less the bench plays, the less they will be confident and ready to step in during crunch time.  That consideration alone should lead to some extended PT for more players.  Tonight I thought Jones and Lexie played too much.  We know what we have with those two, and I never considered this game in jeopardy, even when UP cut it (surprisingly) to 10 points.