[97fan]

I went to the game, my first Stanford basketball game in person in many years. In the first half, John Gage and Andy Brown were hot from behind the three-point line, which gave us a halftime lead that didn't seem all that likely to hold up. And sure enough, we blew it. But the way we lost -- with not just one but three missed second-half dunks by Dwight Powell -- was excruciating.

To me, the big story was Chasson Randle's complete disappearance. Randle looks nothing like the player he was touted to be coming out of high school, or the promising young player we saw last season. I don't know if there's a physical problem; he just appears to have lost his confidence. He had a poor first half, and early in the second half, after an ill-advised drive into traffic led to a turnover, Dawkins benched him. Randle sat on the bench from the 17-minute mark of the second half until the waning seconds of the game, when he was inserted to play defense. That set up the final play of the game, when Randle dribbled the length of the court, missed a running 10-footer, and Powell missed a follow dunk as the buzzer sounded. I would have liked to have seen Aaron Bright trying to make a play at the end of the game; he'd made a bunch of excellent plays in the second half to keep us in the game.

[97fan]

I went to the game, my first Stanford basketball game in person in many years. In the first half, John Gage and Andy Brown were hot from behind the three-point line, which gave us a halftime lead that didn't seem all that likely to hold up. And sure enough, we blew it. But the way we lost -- with not just one but three missed second-half dunks by Dwight Powell -- was excruciating.

To me, the big story was Chasson Randle's complete disappearance. Randle looks nothing like the player he was touted to be coming out of high school, or the promising young player we saw last season. I don't know if there's a physical problem; he just appears to have lost his confidence. He had a poor first half, and early in the second half, after an ill-advised drive into traffic led to a turnover, Dawkins benched him. Randle sat on the bench from the 17-minute mark of the second half until the waning seconds of the game, when he was inserted to play defense. That set up the final play of the game, when Randle dribbled the length of the court, missed a running 10-footer, and Powell missed a follow dunk as the buzzer sounded. I would have liked to have seen Aaron Bright trying to make a play at the end of the game; he'd made a bunch of excellent plays in the second half to keep us in the game.