[jonnyss]

watkins was 6/11 from 3 and 14/26 overall. most of the 2's were long, mid-range shots, not layups. it's hard to win a game against a performance like that. in my memory, we've only seen that kind of play twice before, from allison feaster and from kelsey plum. 

i don't think the issue was bad defense. watkins was guarded well on most shots. she was just steph curry last night, unguardable. the only defense that worked pretty well was double-teaming juju, so i wish we had done it more. as i recall it wasn't leading to a flurry of made, open 3s by usc's other guards.

imo we had a chance of winning with bosgana rather than ogden playing the 3. elena has good and bad nights. last night she was pretty good. not that elena stopped watkins; none of our defenders did. rather that she gave us some offense - 6 points in 9 minutes. another 6 points from elena rather than ogden's zip in the same minutes sure would have helped. imo we were too rigid with our protocol of start the halves with elena, then rarely or never play her again. 

i agree that we seemed off, too. quite a few missed bunnies - some of them from the physical defense but not all. plus, cam, kiki, and brooke missed most of the open mid-range shots that they had consistently been making in recent months - right from the beginning of the game, even before they got beat up.

[jonnyss]

watkins was 6/11 from 3 and 14/26 overall. most of the 2's were long, mid-range shots, not layups. it's hard to win a game against a performance like that. in my memory, we've only seen that kind of play twice before, from allison feaster and from kelsey plum. 

i don't think the issue was bad defense. watkins was guarded well on most shots. she was just steph curry last night, unguardable. the only defense that worked pretty well was double-teaming juju, so i wish we had done it more. as i recall it wasn't leading to a flurry of made, open 3s by usc's other guards.

imo we had a chance of winning with bosgana rather than ogden playing the 3. elena has good and bad nights. last night she was pretty good. not that elena stopped watkins; none of our defenders did. rather that she gave us some offense - 6 points in 9 minutes. another 6 points from elena rather than ogden's zip in the same minutes sure would have helped. imo we were too rigid with our protocol of start the halves with elena, then rarely or never play her again. 

i agree that we seemed off, too. quite a few missed bunnies - some of them from the physical defense but not all. plus, cam, kiki, and brooke missed most of the open mid-range shots that they had consistently been making in recent months - right from the beginning of the game, even before they got beat up.