[2006alum]

I was at the game. It never really felt like we were going to lose, but Santa Clara hung around and would not let us pull away. 

Offensively, we scored 80+ spread out evenly amongst many players. That was nice to see. Hannah Jump had another great game. Lepolo didn't play her best tonight. Brink was in foul trouble all game. Despite scoring well, it felt like our offense was not fluid. We missed a lot of easy shots and when we were in a scoring drought and needed an easy bucket. It didn't seem like we knew who we should get the ball to and where. Iriafen missed several close shots. 

Defensively, was not a great performance. Santa Clara had great cutting,  passing and perimeter shooting and there were many defensive breakdowns on our part. We did force at least two shot-clock violations however. Last game against Hawaii, we pressed a lot, forced turnovers, and had almost 20 transition points. We didn't do any of that tonight. We didn't turn them over or score in transition; we had 4 fast break points. I'm not really sure what our defensive identify is. I wish we would pick up full court more and be more disruptive defensively in trying to create turnovers and then turn that into offense. We have depth and could force the pace more IMO. Santa Clara should not be scoring more points in regulation than South Carolina did against us but they did tonight. 

Will need to be better Sunday against Gonzaga. Santa Clara is not the 8th best team in their conference. They are much better and well coached. I think our team will be looking forward to a little break after Sundays game. We need some practice time to clean things up and continue to improve.

Amen to all of this. First game I had the chance to watch wire to wire and boy was it a sloppy affair. Felt like we left a lot of easy o-boards on the table, and had some really bad miscues on defense. And yes, all the missed shots and layups.

I feel like Jones has been phoning it in a lot this season. She just doesn't seem as crisp, focused, or effective as in prior seasons. 

Jump is like the energizer bunny. Can't stop, won't stop. Love it. 

Brink, Iriafen, and Belibi all looked great. Hard to blame Tara that Betts doesn't get more time when we have an endless plethora of amazing bigs.

Lepolo has great game IQ, power, and handle. But I feel like she declined several open shots. I'd like to see her looking for her own shots, not just others. 

Would like to see more of Bosgana. She does a little bit of everything and I love her hustle. Same with Nivar. I feel like she would really benefit from more consistent time on the Court. 

Wish Emma-Nopu could shoot the ball, because I love her defense and grit. 

Prechtel remains something of an enigma to me. The best I can figure it out, she's better against bigger and more physical teams where she can bang down low on defense and create size mismatches outside on offense. But she didn't seem as effective against a smaller, crafter, speedier team.

[2006alum]

I was at the game. It never really felt like we were going to lose, but Santa Clara hung around and would not let us pull away. 

Offensively, we scored 80+ spread out evenly amongst many players. That was nice to see. Hannah Jump had another great game. Lepolo didn't play her best tonight. Brink was in foul trouble all game. Despite scoring well, it felt like our offense was not fluid. We missed a lot of easy shots and when we were in a scoring drought and needed an easy bucket. It didn't seem like we knew who we should get the ball to and where. Iriafen missed several close shots. 

Defensively, was not a great performance. Santa Clara had great cutting,  passing and perimeter shooting and there were many defensive breakdowns on our part. We did force at least two shot-clock violations however. Last game against Hawaii, we pressed a lot, forced turnovers, and had almost 20 transition points. We didn't do any of that tonight. We didn't turn them over or score in transition; we had 4 fast break points. I'm not really sure what our defensive identify is. I wish we would pick up full court more and be more disruptive defensively in trying to create turnovers and then turn that into offense. We have depth and could force the pace more IMO. Santa Clara should not be scoring more points in regulation than South Carolina did against us but they did tonight. 

Will need to be better Sunday against Gonzaga. Santa Clara is not the 8th best team in their conference. They are much better and well coached. I think our team will be looking forward to a little break after Sundays game. We need some practice time to clean things up and continue to improve.

Amen to all of this. First game I had the chance to watch wire to wire and boy was it a sloppy affair. Felt like we left a lot of easy o-boards on the table, and had some really bad miscues on defense. And yes, all the missed shots and layups.

I feel like Jones has been phoning it in a lot this season. She just doesn't seem as crisp, focused, or effective as in prior seasons. 

Jump is like the energizer bunny. Can't stop, won't stop. Love it. 

Brink, Iriafen, and Belibi all looked great. Hard to blame Tara that Betts doesn't get more time when we have an endless plethora of amazing bigs.

Lepolo has great game IQ, power, and handle. But I feel like she declined several open shots. I'd like to see her looking for her own shots, not just others. 

Would like to see more of Bosgana. She does a little bit of everything and I love her hustle. Same with Nivar. I feel like she would really benefit from more consistent time on the Court. 

Wish Emma-Nopu could shoot the ball, because I love her defense and grit. 

Prechtel remains something of an enigma to me. The best I can figure it out, she's better against bigger and more physical teams where she can bang down low on defense and create size mismatches outside on offense. But she didn't seem as effective against a smaller, crafter, speedier team.