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WBB: Stanford 86 USF 66 - 81alum - 11-29-2017

Preliminary:

We play in San Francisco, sandwiched between the overtime loss to tOSU and Sunday's game at Baylor.  A chance to continue to improve and prepare for what we hope will be a breakthrough game. 

Overview:

After a dreadful first half, a combination of hot shooting and USF tiring resulted in a second half outburst that carried us from a 4 point deficit to a 20 point win.  Significant points: Williams had a breakout game with 5/9 three point shots, Carrington also got back on track with 19 points, and Johnson had 14 rebounds and looked like her freshman self.

Flow of the Game:

Tara started the usual five: Johnson Smith Carrington Romano and Sniezek, and USF came out in a sagging man that looked a lot like the Stanford defense--not surprising given that Molly Goodenbour has replaced Jennifer Azzi as the USF coach.  Throughout the first half that sagging man frustrated our offense.  Every time Smith got near the paint she was doubled or tripled.  Meanwhile our shooting simply was cold and the offense looked disjointed.  USF played significantly better in the first quarter and swooshed a few treys, and maintained the lead all the way to halftime.  Our offense in the second quarter was dreadful until near the end, but USF's offense also collapsed in the second quarter, leading to the ugliest stretch of basketball this year.

In the second half we simply started hitting shots that were not going in during the first half.  Williams, Carrington, and Romano all hit treys at a high percentage in the second half, and Smith went 3/3 from three point range--the USF defensive focus on Smith inside was finally punished in a big way.  In fact we hit 15/31 treys for the game for 48.4%.  I wonder if that is some sort of record--more than half our points coming from long range.  USF had only 8 players and the pace in the first half, with frenetic defense, was taxing, and I think they ran down as the game went along.

Performances:

As a team the second half really helped the overall stats.  We shot 28% in the first half and 59% in the second, or 45% overall but 48% from three point range.  9 turnovers in the first half were deadly, but we kept it down to only 4 more in the second. 

Smith had a double/double with 19 points and 11 rebounds, but she also had 4 fouls and 3 turnovers.  Most impressive though was her 3/3 three point shooting.  It is so important to see her confidence in that shot grow.

Carrington nabbed 19 points too, but also had 4 fouls and led the team with 4 turnovers, as is her tendency.  Despite that her +/- led the team at 25.

Romano had an excellent game, with 13 points on 5/10 shooting.  Not only did she get her rainbow shot going for 3/5 from three point range, she showed she can cut to the basket. 

Sniezek got 21 minutes while Williams got 29.  Sniezek scored 5 points on 2/7 shooting, and 3 assists to 2 turnovers.

Williams had a breakout game.  She scored 17 on 6/14 shooting, 5/9 from three point range--meaning she was 1/5 from in close.  She rounded out a very nice stat line with 5 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 block and 0 turnovers.

Johnson had a good game for her, scoring 6 on 3/5 shooting and hauling in 14 rebounds.  She also had 3 blocks and 2 assists with only 2 fouls. 

Jerome played for 10 minutes, mainly in relief of Smith when she rested with fouls.  She was 0/4 but had 2 assists.

Conclusion:

If the last game was Anna Wilson's coming out party, tonight it was Kiana Williams'.  It also reminds us of how young this team is--that good shooting and bad shooting are both airborne infectious diseases that the players seem to catch from each other.  I do hope with experience will come greater consistency.  Why can't every half be like the second half against USF or the second half against UConn?  While our second half tonight showed some happy things such as Kiana Williams' potential or a torrent of three pointers--it just doesn't feel to me that things are coming along swiftly enough to avoid some rough losses in the near future.  But I continue to be optimistic about our chances for the tournaments at the end of the year.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 81alum - 11-29-2017

Video is not on All Access but on WCC sports here:

http://www.wccsports.com/gamecenter/w-baskbl/gc-112917-sanf.html



Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - JJJ - 11-29-2017

Thanks for the link!

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - mbdude - 11-29-2017

sometimes I wonder if Carrington is an asset or liability

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 2006alum - 11-29-2017

Oof. This is disastrous so far. We can't seem to buy either a stop or a basket to save our lives.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - JJJ - 11-29-2017

We’re not sharp at all. And still can’t solve the zone...

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - TheFarm07 - 11-29-2017

We are down 12-19 after one quarter. SF had some hot 3-point shooting (4/7) while we turned the ball over 6 times including some wild passes by Carrington, one of which I thought was a shot attempt that was just a misguided pass to the other side of the key.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - CompSci87 - 11-29-2017

Everyone looks like a liability on offense right now. Well, except Johnson grabbing rebounds.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 2006alum - 11-29-2017

Yikes. We're 1 for 10; they're 2 for 14. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - TheFarm07 - 11-29-2017

We are just ice cold shooting the ball, even our point blank shots are not going in.

Luckily, SF is not doing much better right now.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - JJJ - 11-29-2017

(11-29-2017, 08:34 PM)2006alum link Wrote:Yikes. We're 1 for 10; they're 2 for 14. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
To clarify, that was for 2Q up to that point. Then it got worse...

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - titantwin - 11-29-2017

Yikes - this is really bad. No discipline on shoot selection at all. Who do we want to shoot the ball and where do we get them the ball in their area of strength???

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - CompSci87 - 11-29-2017

Playing for the last shot equals playing for no shot tonight. Run the clock down to 10 seconds, then try to think of something to do... and fail.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 2006alum - 11-29-2017

I'm not sure we had any second chance points in the second quarter. And it was dismaying how much better USF's passing was than ours. Theirs was crisp and quick - ours was wild and all over the place. I wasn't able to watch our games in Las Vegas, but I have absolutely no idea how this team was able to take Ohio State to OT.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 81alum - 11-29-2017

I did not know that USF is being coached now by Molly Goodenbour! 

We are off to a sluggish offensive start and USF is hitting treys, and we are behind 12-18 after one quarter.  USF has hit 4/7 treys.  USF is playing man and we are seeing the offense now a bit, and it looks disjointed.

In the second quarter we also scored 12 total points.  A wretched first half offense and a defense not nearly up to par.  We are getting a sagging man defense and Smith is swarmed every time she gets in the paint, making it extremely difficult for her to maneuver or even rebound.  Meanwhile, we have turned the ball over 9 times and shot a hideous 22% in the second quarter.  We claw back from a 9 point deficit to trail 28-24 after a half. 

High point:  Kiana Williams is 2/3 from three point range. 
Higher point: We cut USF from scoring 19 in the first quarter to scoring 9 in the second.

Low point:  with a gargantuan height advantage we are outrebounding USF only 27 to 26.
Lower point: we have 9 turnovers to USF's 4.
Lowest point: that was a really, really ugly quarter.


Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - mbdude - 11-29-2017

could have been worse as they missed a lot of uncontested 3 ptrs. As someone mentioned we appear to just be throwing shots up with no plan

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 81alum - 11-29-2017

Romano, Sniezek, Jerome, and Wilson are a combined 1/14.

McPhee not dressed but not in a boot.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - M T - 11-29-2017

(11-29-2017, 08:43 PM)CompSci87 link Wrote:Playing for the last shot equals playing for no shot tonight. Run the clock down to 10 seconds, then try to think of something to do... and fail.

Agreed.

Btw, I'm not worried -- we will win this game.  If for no other reason, USF only has 3 on the bench & needs to get careful with the fouls.

At the half, we had 6 players with TO and only 4 with points.

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 81alum - 11-29-2017

The third quarter wound up being one of our best offensive quarters of the season--we scored 32.  On the other hand we gave up 21.  Still, we lead after 3 56-49.  Williams is 4/6 from three point range, and Carrington has heated up at 5/9. 

Re: WBB: Stanford at USF 7pm - 81alum - 11-29-2017

We have 21 points in the first half of the fourth quarter.  All the treys are going in.