[81alum]

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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

I probably should have said "throw out the stats when comparing this game to other games."  What I was thinking when I wrote that is that we had once again laid an offensive egg, but the final score 73-62 made the score look respectable.  But in reality, our offense through regulation (48 points) was as bad as it has been in some of our worst moments this season. 

With regard to Brink, during the game it was during the stretches that she was on the bench that we fared poorly--although it is true that a chunk of that 0-13 start happened with her on the floor, though not all of it.  Fortunately, our dependence on her turned out not to be so strong in overtime, since when Brink fouled out a couple of minutes into the first overtime, Betts and Belibi really came through.

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Highlights, such as they are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlI15ij6ics

I don't think Tara did a presser, but here is JR Payne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvzFB0rowms

Here is a youtube posting that appears to be most of the game, though I have not viewed it to see what may be missing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLaI7O076Fw

[81alum]

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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

I probably should have said "throw out the stats when comparing this game to other games."  What I was thinking when I wrote that is that we had once again laid an offensive egg, but the final score 73-62 made the score look respectable.  But in reality, our offense through regulation (48 points) was as bad as it has been in some of our worst moments this season. 

With regard to Brink, during the game it was during the stretches that she was on the bench that we fared poorly--although it is true that a chunk of that 0-13 start happened with her on the floor, though not all of it.  Fortunately, our dependence on her turned out not to be so strong in overtime, since when Brink fouled out a couple of minutes into the first overtime, Betts and Belibi really came through.

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Highlights, such as they are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlI15ij6ics

I don't think Tara did a presser, but here is JR Payne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvzFB0rowms

Here is a youtube posting that appears to be most of the game, though I have not viewed it to see what may be missing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLaI7O076Fw