[Viking_Guy]

BC--

That was the frustrating part.  There were some awful takes - Williams launching 25-footers with time on the clock, one Hull (or maybe Williams) upfaking in the corner, then sliding 5-6 feet around the arc and heaving one up while fading to her left).  But a lot of them were WIDE open.

I eventually had to watch the game with the sound off, because I couldn't take the "analysts" patter.  I can't think of one really good observation from them the entire game.

Alanna's fourth foul?  Running straight through a screen JUST after you reenter the game in foul trouble late in the third quarter?  Luckily, the team seemed to play more openly with her on the bench - maybe they stopped looking for her to bail them out of bad offense.

The other thing to remember is the defense, even with the Bears getting a lot of the benefit of the doubt from the refs. (Was that one of our triumvarate of favorites, Michael? - the guy with the brush cut?) That was a very good game on defense, even with the fouls.

Mostly, it was frustrating to watch Stanford utterly fail to score inside against a much smaller team.  The number of blocks and missed bunnies, on breakaways, on putback attempts, really showed a big weakness in being able to finish strong.  Notre Dame will be that intense times about 3 defensively inside.

VG

[Viking_Guy]

BC--

That was the frustrating part.  There were some awful takes - Williams launching 25-footers with time on the clock, one Hull (or maybe Williams) upfaking in the corner, then sliding 5-6 feet around the arc and heaving one up while fading to her left).  But a lot of them were WIDE open.

I eventually had to watch the game with the sound off, because I couldn't take the "analysts" patter.  I can't think of one really good observation from them the entire game.

Alanna's fourth foul?  Running straight through a screen JUST after you reenter the game in foul trouble late in the third quarter?  Luckily, the team seemed to play more openly with her on the bench - maybe they stopped looking for her to bail them out of bad offense.

The other thing to remember is the defense, even with the Bears getting a lot of the benefit of the doubt from the refs. (Was that one of our triumvarate of favorites, Michael? - the guy with the brush cut?) That was a very good game on defense, even with the fouls.

Mostly, it was frustrating to watch Stanford utterly fail to score inside against a much smaller team.  The number of blocks and missed bunnies, on breakaways, on putback attempts, really showed a big weakness in being able to finish strong.  Notre Dame will be that intense times about 3 defensively inside.

VG