02-02-2013, 08:05 AM
It looks like if we can just get the other team to play zone, we can be really good. At times it looked like Oregon was playing pretty physical (for instance, see the plays at the right block at about 9:36 in the first half).
Stanford had season highs in FG Attempts (72) due to a lot of up and down the court breaks, both 3PT(10) and 3PT attempts (27) and a near-season high with 38% of our FGA being 3PTA. While our 25 assists was a season high, the 78% assist to FGA ratio was impressive. 11 steals ties the season high, and lead to our season best 22 points off their turnovers (near season high of 17), and season high of 24 fast break points (previous high was 8 )
While the 37% 3PT% was better than our average, earlier in the season we were regularly doing better. Our 2PT% was a shade under our average, as was our FT%. As noted by 81alum, our rebounding was bad, with 22% OR% + 66% DR% = 88%. Oregon does lead the conference in offensive rebounds, while they are next to last in defensive rebounds. So, that means our OR% was especially bad, while our DR% was probably acceptable. Jos is going toward the basket on the shot most of the time, but she's often out on the perimeter on offense so she doesn't get into good rebounding position. So it is typically double-teamed Chiney versus 3 or more defensive rebounders.
Tess may be our future, but she's still kinda awkward in there, picking up 2 fouls in 5 minutes. The stat sheet shows Erica got 4 (not 3) fouls in 5 minutes.
After we were up 20 with 6:20 left in the half, we let them get 10 straight points until 2:37, when Paul Westhead got called for a technical. That seems a pretty dumb thing by him. He kept going at the official like he wanted the technical. No one on his bench tried to pull him back. The only thing I could see was that he was upset by the foul call on Alleyne, but it looked like an easy call to me (one hand came down on the players shoulder and then swiped across the arms). He was in his seat before that foul, and continuously up talking at the official after it.
Clearly that one ref, Shelley Nakasone, tried to make up for the technical on the coach by then calling a technical on Jos just 8 seconds later. The fact that she called the second technical so quickly after she called the first technical brings into question her competence. The rules have no provision for make up calls. The second technical was dubious enough that the TV announcers didn't figure out what was going on (ie, that there was a technical), and despite looking at the replay over & over, never saw anything that could be called. If the NCAA reviews officials' conduct on the court, this should be reviewed. (Oh yea, you have to really stretch your imagination to think that Jos committed a Flagrant 1 Personal Foul there. Then you have to stretch your interpretation of how that was after the tie ball call to make that a Contact Dead Ball Technical Foul, which is the only thing I can imagine she found to call that was a technical, as she signaled. Surely one couldn't stretch the call far enough for it to be a Flagrant 2 Technical Foul. So I also think the excuse for this to be a technical is suspect and further calls into question the competency of that official, and the team of officials.)
Anyway, during this 4 minute, 10 point run by Oregon, we had most of our starters in, so it can't be blamed on having the second string in. I really didn't see anything that jumped out at me other than Oregon was hitting shots and Stanford was missing. We weren't able to get the ball inside much during this time. We tried, and missed four 3-pointers, during that time.
In all, I think the fact that our starters played as much time as they did is not a good sign. I certainly wish we had played well enough to let Chiney play less than the 28 minutes she played. She had her double-double with 10 minutes left in the game (about 4 minutes before she finally left).
I hope Sunday will be an even easier game, giving more development time to the subs.
Stanford had season highs in FG Attempts (72) due to a lot of up and down the court breaks, both 3PT(10) and 3PT attempts (27) and a near-season high with 38% of our FGA being 3PTA. While our 25 assists was a season high, the 78% assist to FGA ratio was impressive. 11 steals ties the season high, and lead to our season best 22 points off their turnovers (near season high of 17), and season high of 24 fast break points (previous high was 8 )
While the 37% 3PT% was better than our average, earlier in the season we were regularly doing better. Our 2PT% was a shade under our average, as was our FT%. As noted by 81alum, our rebounding was bad, with 22% OR% + 66% DR% = 88%. Oregon does lead the conference in offensive rebounds, while they are next to last in defensive rebounds. So, that means our OR% was especially bad, while our DR% was probably acceptable. Jos is going toward the basket on the shot most of the time, but she's often out on the perimeter on offense so she doesn't get into good rebounding position. So it is typically double-teamed Chiney versus 3 or more defensive rebounders.
Tess may be our future, but she's still kinda awkward in there, picking up 2 fouls in 5 minutes. The stat sheet shows Erica got 4 (not 3) fouls in 5 minutes.
After we were up 20 with 6:20 left in the half, we let them get 10 straight points until 2:37, when Paul Westhead got called for a technical. That seems a pretty dumb thing by him. He kept going at the official like he wanted the technical. No one on his bench tried to pull him back. The only thing I could see was that he was upset by the foul call on Alleyne, but it looked like an easy call to me (one hand came down on the players shoulder and then swiped across the arms). He was in his seat before that foul, and continuously up talking at the official after it.
Clearly that one ref, Shelley Nakasone, tried to make up for the technical on the coach by then calling a technical on Jos just 8 seconds later. The fact that she called the second technical so quickly after she called the first technical brings into question her competence. The rules have no provision for make up calls. The second technical was dubious enough that the TV announcers didn't figure out what was going on (ie, that there was a technical), and despite looking at the replay over & over, never saw anything that could be called. If the NCAA reviews officials' conduct on the court, this should be reviewed. (Oh yea, you have to really stretch your imagination to think that Jos committed a Flagrant 1 Personal Foul there. Then you have to stretch your interpretation of how that was after the tie ball call to make that a Contact Dead Ball Technical Foul, which is the only thing I can imagine she found to call that was a technical, as she signaled. Surely one couldn't stretch the call far enough for it to be a Flagrant 2 Technical Foul. So I also think the excuse for this to be a technical is suspect and further calls into question the competency of that official, and the team of officials.)
Anyway, during this 4 minute, 10 point run by Oregon, we had most of our starters in, so it can't be blamed on having the second string in. I really didn't see anything that jumped out at me other than Oregon was hitting shots and Stanford was missing. We weren't able to get the ball inside much during this time. We tried, and missed four 3-pointers, during that time.
In all, I think the fact that our starters played as much time as they did is not a good sign. I certainly wish we had played well enough to let Chiney play less than the 28 minutes she played. She had her double-double with 10 minutes left in the game (about 4 minutes before she finally left).
I hope Sunday will be an even easier game, giving more development time to the subs.