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That effort and outcome should shut down the whinging.

"We wanted to be aggressive, we wanted to play fast, that's how we want to play," Stanford coach Tara VanDerVeer said. "I think we can even do better. And I think I've been holding us back, honestly, I really do."

If and only if Tara follows through and optimizes her enormously talented roster that should never lose to USC or Washington. Even after the Arizona game, I felt Adia was too hard on her team after this beat down. Those losses to USC and Washington made PAC-12 teams think that Stanford is beatable. And they shouldn’t think that. I always thought Part of StanfordWBB’s psychological advantage in the PAC-10 now 12 was that 90% of the seasons (probably higher) PAC-10/12 teams didn’t realistically believe they could win and as a consequence, that made it easier for Stanford to win. Adia said even post game, Stanford is beatable. No Stanford is not beatable by the PAC-10/12 if as Tara said, she doesn’t hold her roster back based on who or who does not make her feel comfortable. You must give talent experience. Nivar would be a lot more polished now if this investment had started in November. So, too, Bosgana.

I pretty strongly disagree with this take. I mean, yes, we have a ton of talent and experience. Yes, we have a hall of fame coach. But:

A) We're not the only team with talent, intelligence and experience.
B) We're not the only team with an intelligent coach that excels at getting the most out of their talent.
C) It's pretty dismissive of other teams/coaches/players/the entire league to suggest that we should always win as long as our coach uses our players in the "correct" way.
D) There are a ton of other factors that go into a game on any given day—fatigue, mental state, injuries/illness, reffing, luck, dozens or even hundreds of split-second, in-game decisions—that make other teams beating us not at all implausible.

Do you really believe the rest of the Pac-12 is that weak?

Even NBA super-teams that should by all rights crush the opposition end up losing to hotter teams (see, unfortunately, the 2015-16 Warriors, 73-9 in the regular season, blowing a 3-1 lead to the 57-25 Cavs in the Finals).

Yes, Jacko

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That effort and outcome should shut down the whinging.

"We wanted to be aggressive, we wanted to play fast, that's how we want to play," Stanford coach Tara VanDerVeer said. "I think we can even do better. And I think I've been holding us back, honestly, I really do."

If and only if Tara follows through and optimizes her enormously talented roster that should never lose to USC or Washington. Even after the Arizona game, I felt Adia was too hard on her team after this beat down. Those losses to USC and Washington made PAC-12 teams think that Stanford is beatable. And they shouldn’t think that. I always thought Part of StanfordWBB’s psychological advantage in the PAC-10 now 12 was that 90% of the seasons (probably higher) PAC-10/12 teams didn’t realistically believe they could win and as a consequence, that made it easier for Stanford to win. Adia said even post game, Stanford is beatable. No Stanford is not beatable by the PAC-10/12 if as Tara said, she doesn’t hold her roster back based on who or who does not make her feel comfortable. You must give talent experience. Nivar would be a lot more polished now if this investment had started in November. So, too, Bosgana.

I pretty strongly disagree with this take. I mean, yes, we have a ton of talent and experience. Yes, we have a hall of fame coach. But:

A) We're not the only team with talent, intelligence and experience.
B) We're not the only team with an intelligent coach that excels at getting the most out of their talent.
C) It's pretty dismissive of other teams/coaches/players/the entire league to suggest that we should always win as long as our coach uses our players in the "correct" way.
D) There are a ton of other factors that go into a game on any given day—fatigue, mental state, injuries/illness, reffing, luck, dozens or even hundreds of split-second, in-game decisions—that make other teams beating us not at all implausible.

Do you really believe the rest of the Pac-12 is that weak?

Even NBA super-teams that should by all rights crush the opposition end up losing to hotter teams (see, unfortunately, the 2015-16 Warriors, 73-9 in the regular season, blowing a 3-1 lead to the 57-25 Cavs in the Finals).

Yes, Jacko