A whole lot to like in this game, but with all the cautionary notes about ASU being an overmatched team with all their tall players out with injury. Even so, we actually did not play quite as well this time as when we had them at Maples--but it turned out to be a very similar game. In both of our games we dominated until substitutions and lack of intensity in the 4th let them narrow the lead a bit. Not atypical of blow-out games.
Betts has really come into her own, is playing with more poise and confidence. It was nice to see both Betts and Iriafen hit at least one jumper from the elbow. We won't always have the gigantic height advantage we had today.
Emma-Nnopu was fabulous. Here is hoping that this will inspire her to shoot more often and more consistently. With her defense, if she could score 17 ppg she would be a starter. But 5/6 from long range...oh my.
Who could have predicted that we would score 96 while Jones 1/8 for 2 points. She did a lot of other very good things, nice to see our offense truly diversify.
Skinner did even better against us this time than she did on New Year's eve. We still don't have the ability to really defend her. Thank goodness ASU has only one of her.
Now we will really see how much we have improved, a rematch with USC coming up Friday 8:00. They have entirely different personnel than either Arizona or ASU and can match up on defense in a way those two teams cannot. So if we can handle them and get our offense cranking, it will be a good sign that we have made progress.
Betts has really come into her own, is playing with more poise and confidence. It was nice to see both Betts and Iriafen hit at least one jumper from the elbow. We won't always have the gigantic height advantage we had today.
Emma-Nnopu was fabulous. Here is hoping that this will inspire her to shoot more often and more consistently. With her defense, if she could score 17 ppg she would be a starter. But 5/6 from long range...oh my.
Who could have predicted that we would score 96 while Jones 1/8 for 2 points. She did a lot of other very good things, nice to see our offense truly diversify.
Skinner did even better against us this time than she did on New Year's eve. We still don't have the ability to really defend her. Thank goodness ASU has only one of her.
Now we will really see how much we have improved, a rematch with USC coming up Friday 8:00. They have entirely different personnel than either Arizona or ASU and can match up on defense in a way those two teams cannot. So if we can handle them and get our offense cranking, it will be a good sign that we have made progress.