[BostonCard]

Boston card, I have ot call you out. what was you said about Betts not being able to handle even 20 minutes? She did 29 minutes, thord most on the team and didn't seem to tire to me having to take over for Brink in the OTs. At 14 pts., 8 rebs., and 2 blocks, plus making at least 1 FT under pressure to send it to double OT clearly proved altitude had little or no effect on her. In fact, I think some here make too big of a deal about altitude. Tara dismissed it, and if it was a big factor as some think, visiting teams in all sports would lose to the mountain schools all the time. 

Happy to eat crow on that one.

BC

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My impressions:

1) Ignore most of the stats.  The stats in a double overtime are grossly deceptive.  We dramatically improved in just about all categories in the two overtimes, or else we would despair looking at the stat sheet.

2) Brink's foul trouble reminds us just how crucial she is to the game--and not mainly on offense.  The entire character of the game changes when she is not patrolling the paint.

1) Why would one do that?  It's no more correct to ignore the overtime period as a fluke than it is to ignore the first quarter as an outlier (which it was, but it still happened).  The game highlights the fact that in basketball there is a lot of game to game variability and even quarter to quarter variability. It's just the nature of the game, but one part of it is no more indicative than any other.

2) And yet we won it after Brink fouled out.

BC

[BostonCard]

Boston card, I have ot call you out. what was you said about Betts not being able to handle even 20 minutes? She did 29 minutes, thord most on the team and didn't seem to tire to me having to take over for Brink in the OTs. At 14 pts., 8 rebs., and 2 blocks, plus making at least 1 FT under pressure to send it to double OT clearly proved altitude had little or no effect on her. In fact, I think some here make too big of a deal about altitude. Tara dismissed it, and if it was a big factor as some think, visiting teams in all sports would lose to the mountain schools all the time. 

Happy to eat crow on that one.

BC

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My impressions:

1) Ignore most of the stats.  The stats in a double overtime are grossly deceptive.  We dramatically improved in just about all categories in the two overtimes, or else we would despair looking at the stat sheet.

2) Brink's foul trouble reminds us just how crucial she is to the game--and not mainly on offense.  The entire character of the game changes when she is not patrolling the paint.

1) Why would one do that?  It's no more correct to ignore the overtime period as a fluke than it is to ignore the first quarter as an outlier (which it was, but it still happened).  The game highlights the fact that in basketball there is a lot of game to game variability and even quarter to quarter variability. It's just the nature of the game, but one part of it is no more indicative than any other.

2) And yet we won it after Brink fouled out.

BC