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Two things, to be fair:
Portland State did just take the full force of Duke for about 30 minutes and hung with them.
And some of the fouls that they were buying were pretty, umm... iffy. The third foul on Humphrey was because they hadn't called a foul by someone raking at the ball as he gathered a rebound. He sat with Stanford leading by 11, came back in when they were up 7, and then was called for an absolutely pivotal fourth foul, where the driver stuck his forearm as a bar directly into Humphrey's midsection, extended well away from his body and shoving Humphrey backwards - and Humphrey was called for the foul. At that point, it was Stanford 55-53.
Stanford scored 6 points over the next 8 minutes of game clock.
Not sure if it would have made a difference, but it would've been nice not to have to play a walk-on guard for 18 minutes against a great three-point shooting team.
Sorry, it was kind of frustrating. Not sure I'm willing to blame Haase yet, but it seems like there's no real leader on the floor - Davis is too raw, and Cartwright and White have problems staying in front of people defensively. Travis is amazing, but can't feed himself the ball; that's why Humphrey's absence was so glaring.
VG