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The post mortem is done at the top.

Here are some depressing stats:

Rebounding, Stanford 24 Gonzaga 38. 

Free throw shooting: Stanford 14/24, Gonzaga 19/22.

Three point percentage:  Stanford 41%, Gonzaga 62%

If we rebounded as well as Gonzaga did instead of giving them 14 more chances we win this game.  If we hit half of the free throws we missed we might have won too.  If we kept Gonzaga's three point shooting down to our impressive 41% level we also win.  If we do none of those things, and play as badly as we actually did for the first three quarters, why then we lose, and we deserve to.

I was busy and couldn't watch but sure sounds like not much went well.  Getting out-rebounded like that and the poor defense are the scariest things.  Those are effort and hustle to a large extent.  Gonzaga is good but really, we have the talent to beat them, even on the road.  Some of our key players struggled a lot, actually most of them did, by the stats.  I hate to say this but maybe the optimism for the season was a bit premature.  Team is young and should improve a bunch but by now the upperclassmen should be farther along.

[chimera]

The post mortem is done at the top.

Here are some depressing stats:

Rebounding, Stanford 24 Gonzaga 38. 

Free throw shooting: Stanford 14/24, Gonzaga 19/22.

Three point percentage:  Stanford 41%, Gonzaga 62%

If we rebounded as well as Gonzaga did instead of giving them 14 more chances we win this game.  If we hit half of the free throws we missed we might have won too.  If we kept Gonzaga's three point shooting down to our impressive 41% level we also win.  If we do none of those things, and play as badly as we actually did for the first three quarters, why then we lose, and we deserve to.

I was busy and couldn't watch but sure sounds like not much went well.  Getting out-rebounded like that and the poor defense are the scariest things.  Those are effort and hustle to a large extent.  Gonzaga is good but really, we have the talent to beat them, even on the road.  Some of our key players struggled a lot, actually most of them did, by the stats.  I hate to say this but maybe the optimism for the season was a bit premature.  Team is young and should improve a bunch but by now the upperclassmen should be farther along.