[chimera]

I understand the concern, but I have a slightly different take.  It's a long season and we always, always, always have a few games where the team doesn't look that great.  Conference games are often a slog, more so later in the season when teams have already played each other.  Add in that our team knows they are better than let's say WSU, and sometimes you get a game like yesterday where we play down to their level.  Add in again that we just had a big, tough victory over Oregon and over OSU on the road.  And no Lexie.  Add all that and you get lower energy for this one.  Senior weekend too, with all the emotion that contains.  The last two games our outside shooting has been poor.  If some of those open threes go in last night, we don't have this discussion.  WSU plays physical defense but is not speedy.  That means a lot of bodying and grabbing.

I did think our posts could have driven more when they had the ball at the FT line and WSU's defense was out on the perimeter such that the basket was wide open.  We did that only a few times and I think every time we got a basket or a foul on WSU.  I also thought we looked confused as to what to do on offense, I assume because WSU changed their defense enough that we had not anticipated they would do what they did.  We moved the ball too slowly.  Run the offense better is the answer, which we surely can do.

[chimera]

I understand the concern, but I have a slightly different take.  It's a long season and we always, always, always have a few games where the team doesn't look that great.  Conference games are often a slog, more so later in the season when teams have already played each other.  Add in that our team knows they are better than let's say WSU, and sometimes you get a game like yesterday where we play down to their level.  Add in again that we just had a big, tough victory over Oregon and over OSU on the road.  And no Lexie.  Add all that and you get lower energy for this one.  Senior weekend too, with all the emotion that contains.  The last two games our outside shooting has been poor.  If some of those open threes go in last night, we don't have this discussion.  WSU plays physical defense but is not speedy.  That means a lot of bodying and grabbing.

I did think our posts could have driven more when they had the ball at the FT line and WSU's defense was out on the perimeter such that the basket was wide open.  We did that only a few times and I think every time we got a basket or a foul on WSU.  I also thought we looked confused as to what to do on offense, I assume because WSU changed their defense enough that we had not anticipated they would do what they did.  We moved the ball too slowly.  Run the offense better is the answer, which we surely can do.