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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

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 Oilhoffen 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. 

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

81alum, you did an excellent scouting job pregame very much on target.

Would have liked to have seen us speed up the game and pressure them more with our D especially in 2nd half when we knew we had no foul trouble. We just got killed with their packing it in and our poor 3 pt shooting. Majority of game, we only had one reall outside shooter, Jump, in the game. Really frustrating seeing Jones, Brink, Agnes, Iriafen, and Fran left unguarded anywhere near the perimeter. Either they don't shoot or when they do, they miss badly. I thought when Hannah opened the game with the mid range basket she was going to have a hot night, but the opposite, whe was cold. It seems like when she is blanketed by a defender and our O is not going well, when she gets any kind of an opening, she presses, rushes fer shot, and shoots off balance. I think she tries hard to jump start the O, but it causes her to take shots out of sync. Haley's mid shots were quite good. Agnes did make two key threes though.

OSU definitely got screwed on that play with Fran which clearly was off Fran. But refs could have called even more fouls on beavers. They got away with a lot. Last foul on TVO was right call as she hacked Haley's arm. TVO colplained about ther 4th foul, but that was an even more obvious hack. Apparently the kid thinks it's ok to smack an oppoenent's arm. 

I was surprised that Betts and Ashten didn't play more. 

I'm beginning to think that we need to counter the packing in tactic by opponents by encouragin anyone on the perimeter to take them, but make sure we have good rebounders in place to grab O boards and make putbacks ot draw fouls on missed shots. I would put Jones at the 4 with Brink and have Jump, Lepolo, and Agnes outside and let them jack if they can't get it into the post or drive. But part of our issue is we are movint the ball well and quickly or moving, screening, and cutting as well as we did earlier this season, probably because our players still haven't figured out and comfortable going against the packed in D with Jum covered tightly.

[treetop11]

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

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 Oilhoffen 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. 

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

81alum, you did an excellent scouting job pregame very much on target.

Would have liked to have seen us speed up the game and pressure them more with our D especially in 2nd half when we knew we had no foul trouble. We just got killed with their packing it in and our poor 3 pt shooting. Majority of game, we only had one reall outside shooter, Jump, in the game. Really frustrating seeing Jones, Brink, Agnes, Iriafen, and Fran left unguarded anywhere near the perimeter. Either they don't shoot or when they do, they miss badly. I thought when Hannah opened the game with the mid range basket she was going to have a hot night, but the opposite, whe was cold. It seems like when she is blanketed by a defender and our O is not going well, when she gets any kind of an opening, she presses, rushes fer shot, and shoots off balance. I think she tries hard to jump start the O, but it causes her to take shots out of sync. Haley's mid shots were quite good. Agnes did make two key threes though.

OSU definitely got screwed on that play with Fran which clearly was off Fran. But refs could have called even more fouls on beavers. They got away with a lot. Last foul on TVO was right call as she hacked Haley's arm. TVO colplained about ther 4th foul, but that was an even more obvious hack. Apparently the kid thinks it's ok to smack an oppoenent's arm. 

I was surprised that Betts and Ashten didn't play more. 

I'm beginning to think that we need to counter the packing in tactic by opponents by encouragin anyone on the perimeter to take them, but make sure we have good rebounders in place to grab O boards and make putbacks ot draw fouls on missed shots. I would put Jones at the 4 with Brink and have Jump, Lepolo, and Agnes outside and let them jack if they can't get it into the post or drive. But part of our issue is we are movint the ball well and quickly or moving, screening, and cutting as well as we did earlier this season, probably because our players still haven't figured out and comfortable going against the packed in D with Jum covered tightly.