02-05-2018, 11:51 AM
(02-05-2018, 08:03 AM)2006alum link Wrote:the Oregon tactic I do question a bit was that they didn't try to press more in the last three minutes when they had already switched to man. That two-minute possession where Marta twice ran down the clock, we twice missed, and we twice got the o-board, was a textbook example of when a defense needs to press and be aggressive even if it risks a foul. They tried it once unsuccessfully around the 9 minute mark in the fourth and Marta handled the trap brilliantly, and then they seemed to back away from it.
Marta pretty much did a 180 dribbling out and through that trap. I was thinking she was in trouble and just like that she was clear. That was amazing -- I don't think I'd seen any ball handler do that move.
