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Once again, we are carried more by our defense than our offense.  The first quarter certainly did not look like it would turn out that way.  But Rueck was smart enough to continue with the Arizona/Cal/UCLA/USC defense--putting the best perimeter player on Jump, packing the paint, and daring us to take jump shots by people not named Jump. 

It almost worked for them, especially since we shot only 4/16 from three point range.  Jump was only 1/7 from three point range, which played right into their strategy.  We are setting a lot of perimeter screens for her, and she moves laterally around them and shoots, but she usually misses left if she if moving left.  Her shot is much more reliable when she catches and shoots, and so we have not found an effective way to get her truly open.

I am astonished the Brink was 7/17 field goals, but she made some mid range jumpers and also managed to squeeze through the paint from time to time.  For the game, though, we had a meager 20 points in the paint, which illustrates how packed it was in there.  Oregon State has the size and bulk to make it difficult to maneuver.  She did accumulate a lot of fouls, so thank goodness our free throw shooting has improved.

I'm not sure what the other posters were seeing in Jones, but she made lots of mid range jumpers from the free throw line.  That was encouraging and vital for our success.

Oregon State did pay a price for its strategy, given that we earned 18 free throws and they managed only 2.  Was that bad officiating?  I think it was more a result of the style of defense that Oregon State was playing.  Perhaps the most controversial foul, though, was Von Oelhoffen's fifth when she tried to steal the ball from Jones and may have gotten more than ball.  I'll be eager to see a replay.  It would have been a massive momentum shift.

While our offense often looked somewhat stagnant, our defense was pretty good after the first quarter.  Emma-Nnopu has the primary assignment of slowing down Von Oelhoffen and she was mostly successful in doing so--keeping her to 3/14 shooting.  That was the game.

Bendu Yeany and Timea Gardiner were most of the OSU offense, and we were not especially effective in guarding either of them.  We did better against Beers.

Steals and rebounds were fairly similar.  As others have noted, OSU took us out of our game plan and depressed the passing lanes.

[81alum]

Once again, we are carried more by our defense than our offense.  The first quarter certainly did not look like it would turn out that way.  But Rueck was smart enough to continue with the Arizona/Cal/UCLA/USC defense--putting the best perimeter player on Jump, packing the paint, and daring us to take jump shots by people not named Jump. 

It almost worked for them, especially since we shot only 4/16 from three point range.  Jump was only 1/7 from three point range, which played right into their strategy.  We are setting a lot of perimeter screens for her, and she moves laterally around them and shoots, but she usually misses left if she if moving left.  Her shot is much more reliable when she catches and shoots, and so we have not found an effective way to get her truly open.

I am astonished the Brink was 7/17 field goals, but she made some mid range jumpers and also managed to squeeze through the paint from time to time.  For the game, though, we had a meager 20 points in the paint, which illustrates how packed it was in there.  Oregon State has the size and bulk to make it difficult to maneuver.  She did accumulate a lot of fouls, so thank goodness our free throw shooting has improved.

I'm not sure what the other posters were seeing in Jones, but she made lots of mid range jumpers from the free throw line.  That was encouraging and vital for our success.

Oregon State did pay a price for its strategy, given that we earned 18 free throws and they managed only 2.  Was that bad officiating?  I think it was more a result of the style of defense that Oregon State was playing.  Perhaps the most controversial foul, though, was Von Oelhoffen's fifth when she tried to steal the ball from Jones and may have gotten more than ball.  I'll be eager to see a replay.  It would have been a massive momentum shift.

While our offense often looked somewhat stagnant, our defense was pretty good after the first quarter.  Emma-Nnopu has the primary assignment of slowing down Von Oelhoffen and she was mostly successful in doing so--keeping her to 3/14 shooting.  That was the game.

Bendu Yeany and Timea Gardiner were most of the OSU offense, and we were not especially effective in guarding either of them.  We did better against Beers.

Steals and rebounds were fairly similar.  As others have noted, OSU took us out of our game plan and depressed the passing lanes.