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WBB: Stanford 90 Cal 69 - 81alum - 12-21-2022
Preview:
We open Pac-12 play on Friday against Cal. Cal comes in a much improved team from a year ago. Cal is 9-2 so far this year. They have not had any notable wins, but they played Notre Dame fairly close before succumbing to them in the end. Massey has them at 75, Net is 79, and they are unranked.
Cal is led by the sparkplug Jayda Curry, a 5'6" sophomore guard who is averaging 15 points a game and leads the team in assists. Curry is very fast and very quick, but also shoots treys in volume at 33%.
Cal has cashed in on the transfer front, with their second leading scorer being Kemmery Martin, a senior who played three seasons at Utah. Cal is using her more than Utah did. Martin is scoring 12ppg and shooting a blazing 42% from three point range.
Evelian Lutje Schipholt, the 6'2" senior forward from Holland, is third in scoring. And we cannot overlook Leilani McIntosh, the 5'5" senior guard who is making 48% of her treys. McIntosh also has gobs of assists--it is a little as if Cal has 2 point guards on the floor at any time.
Another transfer bolstering Cal is 6'1" Peanut Tuitele, who we know so well from four years at Colorado. She is a grad student at Cal now, and bolsters their ranks. She starts but is well down the list on scoring, being more of a defensive specialist.
Cal is much deeper than in the past. 9 players average double digit minutes, and several of them, like transfer (from Texas) Charisma Ortiz are noteworthy.
In short, Cal has excellent home-grown guards and has brought in several transfers that significantly improve their roster. In my opinion their talent level is not close to ours, but they will be a significantly more challenging team to play this year than last, and so the old adage about "on any given day" applies. I worry, for example, about our ability to defend their two speedy, water-bug style guards who can both slash and shoot from three point range. And while we should have the advantage inside, they saw what Creighton did and no doubt will attempt to force us out of the paint. It will be an interesting chess match between Tara and her former player Charmaine Smith.
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Spike - Spike - 12-21-2022
81, your previews are awesome.
Thank you.
RE: Spike - 81alum - 12-21-2022
(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.Thank you Spike for saying so! This year, I was beginning to wonder if anyone was bothering to read them ;P I'm excited to get the Pac 12 competition kicked off on Friday.
Thank you.
RE: Spike - mbdude - 12-21-2022
(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.
Thank you.
I second that, and the post game comments
RE: Spike - CompSci87 - 12-21-2022
(12-21-2022, 05:07 PM)81alum Wrote:(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.Thank you Spike for saying so! This year, I was beginning to wonder if anyone was bothering to read them ;P I'm excited to get the Pac 12 competition kicked off on Friday.
Thank you.
I'm so glad you're doing them. They're great!
RE: Spike - glovsave - 12-21-2022
(12-21-2022, 05:14 PM)mbdude Wrote:(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.
Thank you.
I second that, and the post game comments
It's appointment reading for me.
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - WBB fan - 12-21-2022
Count me in on the kudos. Definitely read all of these previews, much appreciated!
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - TheWildJacko - 12-21-2022
Same!!
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - 2006alum - 12-21-2022
Yes, fifthed! Have less time to follow our WBB team these days and don't comment much since I'm not informed enough to have much to say, but continue to love reading the previews, recaps, and analysis. =)
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - Jskass - 12-21-2022
What they said!!!!
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - UltimateCard - 12-21-2022
(12-21-2022, 08:54 PM)Jskass Wrote: What they said!!!!
Ditto! Always appreciate the insights!
(Not to distract from the kudos but I have two tix I can’t use - DM me if interested. Sec 5, Row B. Gratis to first taker!)
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - M T - 12-22-2022
Each of us does something a little differently from the others. 81Alum is clearly the kind of organized person I could never be.
A few years back, I took the time to go watch games of some of our upcoming opponents. Now, I don't know how I had the time then. 81alum's previews are a good way for us to know a bit about the team without pouring over stats, or bits of news, or games.
Thanks!
P.S. I see there is a holiday raffle for the Cal game.
Quote:Holiday Raffle
- Come by the marketing table pregame to enter for your chance to win a holiday prize pack!
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - Deejaatee - 12-22-2022
I agree. I don't post much but I like reading your game previews.
Cheers
Daryl
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - 81alum - 12-22-2022
Thank you all! I really wasn't fishing for complements, but I was not sure if folks were enjoying them or just using it as a way to start a thread. I will keep at it!
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - bl82 - 12-22-2022
I wasn't going to pile on, but I would be remiss in pointing out that while the previews are great, it is the entire body of work/info/analysis that I appreciate the most. Cheers!
RE: Spike - TonyLima - 12-22-2022
(12-21-2022, 05:07 PM)81alum Wrote:(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.Thank you Spike for saying so! This year, I was beginning to wonder if anyone was bothering to read them ;P I'm excited to get the Pac 12 competition kicked off on Friday.
Thank you.
I, too, appreciate the previews and postgame comments. But I gotta add: a 6'1" player is named Peanut?
RE: Spike - martyup - 12-22-2022
(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.
Thank you.
Ditto
RE: Spike - TheWildJacko - 12-22-2022
(12-22-2022, 06:10 PM)TonyLima Wrote:(12-21-2022, 05:07 PM)81alum Wrote:(12-21-2022, 04:36 PM)Spike Wrote: 81, your previews are awesome.Thank you Spike for saying so! This year, I was beginning to wonder if anyone was bothering to read them ;P I'm excited to get the Pac 12 competition kicked off on Friday.
Thank you.
I, too, appreciate the previews and postgame comments. But I gotta add: a 6'1" player is named Peanut?
Well she probably wasn’t 6’1” at the time.
RE: Spike - 81alum - 12-22-2022
(12-22-2022, 06:10 PM)TonyLima Wrote: I, too, appreciate the previews and postgame comments. But I gotta add: a 6'1" player is named Peanut?Hah! I've always been curious about her name, and you provoked me to find out more. Her actual name is Sirena, but Peanut has been her nickname since childhood. Nothing about her is diminutive now, though.
Quote:"Peanut"https://cubuffs.com/news/2018/7/2/womens-basketball-tuitele-finds-a-home-in-cus-family-atmosphere
Tuitele was given the nickname "Peanut" when she was born. That nickname has stuck with her as she's grown up.
"My dad held me for the first time and he was like, 'this is it, this is my little peanut.' At first in elementary school, I was embarrassed. I didn't want anyone to call me 'Peanut,' just call me 'Sirena.' I hated it. But now that I'm older, I love Peanut. It's unique and it's who I am now and it defines the person I am. And it's also special to my family because I'm holding out a nickname from them that is supposed to end in elementary school."
RE: WBB: Stanford vs. Cal 12 noon Friday - petersalas - 12-22-2022
(12-22-2022, 10:19 AM)81alum Wrote: Thank you all! I really wasn't fishing for complements, but I was not sure if folks were enjoying them or just using it as a way to start a thread. I will keep at it!
Please keep it up. It used to be we could read previews and postgame reports from the press, but they seem to have lost that. So what you’re doing is awesome! I don’t post much but do read everything Stanford Women’s Basketball!