[81alum]

"That seems to hurt us against the very best teams - lacking a Wiese-level clutch player is basically THE reason we lost in DOT to Oregon State."

I agree.  Stanford WBB currently has no go-to player with the confidence to say "Give me the ball and I will win the game for you".  And we had no clutch player who wanted to win the game by shooting a 3 pointer.

While I made a point similar to this in my write-up of the Oregon State game, I would not state it quite so emphatically, because McCall is pretty close to that level.  She made a trey with 2:01 left in regulation to start a comeback that gave us a chance to win it on Britt's missed free throw.  She also made a trey with 56 seconds left in the second overtime to erase Weise's trey at the other end and get us back to a three point game.  In both cases she was shooting when everyone else was reluctant.  Taking the tough shots when they count and making them--that is pretty clutch.  As it turns out, it wasn't enough and we needed more from everyone else, but Erica's performance was nearly the the equivalent of Weise's both in points and in timing.

[81alum]

"That seems to hurt us against the very best teams - lacking a Wiese-level clutch player is basically THE reason we lost in DOT to Oregon State."

I agree.  Stanford WBB currently has no go-to player with the confidence to say "Give me the ball and I will win the game for you".  And we had no clutch player who wanted to win the game by shooting a 3 pointer.

While I made a point similar to this in my write-up of the Oregon State game, I would not state it quite so emphatically, because McCall is pretty close to that level.  She made a trey with 2:01 left in regulation to start a comeback that gave us a chance to win it on Britt's missed free throw.  She also made a trey with 56 seconds left in the second overtime to erase Weise's trey at the other end and get us back to a three point game.  In both cases she was shooting when everyone else was reluctant.  Taking the tough shots when they count and making them--that is pretty clutch.  As it turns out, it wasn't enough and we needed more from everyone else, but Erica's performance was nearly the the equivalent of Weise's both in points and in timing.