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UCLA watched the Uconn game tape and did to  Chiney what they did, she still has not learned from that experience, why would she think a falling down shot is better than passing to an open teammate as I recall Bonnie was 3 of 5 and that kept us in the game in the first half nd Sara had also hit a 3. Something needs to change in her game. Amber grew up in the last half of the second half but and it's a big but she was not good before that dribbling too much and not playing much D. She did finally start fighting and realized she did not want to lose, UCLA also made some bad D errors allowing her to go left after forcing her right for most of the game. I am for one quite excited as we have a team who have been put down by not only everyone else by also us. Those girls showed they are not just there to make up the rest of the team on the court and came to play even though everything is run  through the 2 and possibly Jos who was a none. Looking forward to Tara hopefully realizing that!!!!

We can win and if Chiney wants her life to be a heck of a lot easier than just worrying about racking up points and boards she will learn to pass.

a bit harsh on Chiney, a first team All American, who has had little help in the paint and perimeter for that matter.  I seriously doubt Chiney worries about racking up pts and boards for herself.
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It seems to me that, for any future defense to be as effective against Chiney as U.C.L.A's was last night, the coach will also have to ensure that: (1) Chiney is [apparently] under the weather, along with JOs; (2) Chiney has gotten mercilessly beaten up for TWO straight nights ahead of time; (3) Chiney has had to play 40 minutes in a reasonably intense game that ended roughly nineteen hours earlier; and (4) she lost an hour of sleep to DST the night before.  Any coach that manages to do all of those things in this year's NCAA tourney DESERVES to win...  ;D

As for next year's Pac-12 championship tourney, as long as we're going to sell out to ESPN such that the championship game has to be the third game in three nights, it seems to me we're going to continue to see these stinkers where both teams looked gassed from virtually the beginning of the game.

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[quote author=WAcard link=topic=7652.msg59945#msg59945 date=1363025380]
UCLA watched the Uconn game tape and did to  Chiney what they did, she still has not learned from that experience, why would she think a falling down shot is better than passing to an open teammate as I recall Bonnie was 3 of 5 and that kept us in the game in the first half nd Sara had also hit a 3. Something needs to change in her game. Amber grew up in the last half of the second half but and it's a big but she was not good before that dribbling too much and not playing much D. She did finally start fighting and realized she did not want to lose, UCLA also made some bad D errors allowing her to go left after forcing her right for most of the game. I am for one quite excited as we have a team who have been put down by not only everyone else by also us. Those girls showed they are not just there to make up the rest of the team on the court and came to play even though everything is run  through the 2 and possibly Jos who was a none. Looking forward to Tara hopefully realizing that!!!!

We can win and if Chiney wants her life to be a heck of a lot easier than just worrying about racking up points and boards she will learn to pass.

a bit harsh on Chiney, a first team All American, who has had little help in the paint and perimeter for that matter.  I seriously doubt Chiney worries about racking up pts and boards for herself.
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It seems to me that, for any future defense to be as effective against Chiney as U.C.L.A's was last night, the coach will also have to ensure that: (1) Chiney is [apparently] under the weather, along with JOs; (2) Chiney has gotten mercilessly beaten up for TWO straight nights ahead of time; (3) Chiney has had to play 40 minutes in a reasonably intense game that ended roughly nineteen hours earlier; and (4) she lost an hour of sleep to DST the night before.  Any coach that manages to do all of those things in this year's NCAA tourney DESERVES to win...  ;D

As for next year's Pac-12 championship tourney, as long as we're going to sell out to ESPN such that the championship game has to be the third game in three nights, it seems to me we're going to continue to see these stinkers where both teams looked gassed from virtually the beginning of the game.