[BosCard]

Nice post.  I agree that it's unreasonable to expect us to go through the regular season undefeated.   And it would not be surprising that we lost a game we "should have" won.  I'll add a little prediction: throughout the season, we will always be the highest-ranked team of those with the same number of losses.  Thus, if we are one of, say, six teams with two losses, we will be the highest-ranked of those six.

I think it will be very interesting to see how playing time is managed the remainder of this year.  Tara has had a tight rotation of 7 or 8 in recent years, but it sure seems like we have more than 7-8 real contributors.

But really, my main hope is for our injured players to recover quickly and fully, and for no major injuries down the road.

Tara is such a strategic tactician that I think we will continue to see a lot of different lineups depending on the opponent.  And we have a lot of talented players who do different things that we can play that way.  I really think this team goes 14 deep in terms of playing meaningful minutes.

I won’t talk about the starters (Williams, Lexie, Jones, Jerome or Fingall) or the injured Carrington and Dodson.  Here are the situations where the remaining 7 players get in the game during meaningful minutes:

Wilson - when you need strong on ball defense on a guard and as a backup ball handler for Williams
Brown - when you need a backup ball handler for Williams and the defense is letting players drive to the basket 
Jump - when you need to destroy a zone or any defense that is sagging in the paint and daring 3-pt shots
Moschkau - Same as Jump.  We saw this in a game when we needed outside shooting and Jump missed several in a row.  In came Moschkau and she hit a couple of big threes.
Lacie - when you need a strong defender on a bigger guard / wing
Belibi - when you need defense, particularly when you need a post defender who can also switch onto a guard.  Think of how many times last year opposing guards switched on to Coffee and drove right around her.  Belibi is the complete opposite of that
Prechtel - When you need size on defense (opposing stationary post) or scoring from the post position

[BosCard]

Nice post.  I agree that it's unreasonable to expect us to go through the regular season undefeated.   And it would not be surprising that we lost a game we "should have" won.  I'll add a little prediction: throughout the season, we will always be the highest-ranked team of those with the same number of losses.  Thus, if we are one of, say, six teams with two losses, we will be the highest-ranked of those six.

I think it will be very interesting to see how playing time is managed the remainder of this year.  Tara has had a tight rotation of 7 or 8 in recent years, but it sure seems like we have more than 7-8 real contributors.

But really, my main hope is for our injured players to recover quickly and fully, and for no major injuries down the road.

Tara is such a strategic tactician that I think we will continue to see a lot of different lineups depending on the opponent.  And we have a lot of talented players who do different things that we can play that way.  I really think this team goes 14 deep in terms of playing meaningful minutes.

I won’t talk about the starters (Williams, Lexie, Jones, Jerome or Fingall) or the injured Carrington and Dodson.  Here are the situations where the remaining 7 players get in the game during meaningful minutes:

Wilson - when you need strong on ball defense on a guard and as a backup ball handler for Williams
Brown - when you need a backup ball handler for Williams and the defense is letting players drive to the basket 
Jump - when you need to destroy a zone or any defense that is sagging in the paint and daring 3-pt shots
Moschkau - Same as Jump.  We saw this in a game when we needed outside shooting and Jump missed several in a row.  In came Moschkau and she hit a couple of big threes.
Lacie - when you need a strong defender on a bigger guard / wing
Belibi - when you need defense, particularly when you need a post defender who can also switch onto a guard.  Think of how many times last year opposing guards switched on to Coffee and drove right around her.  Belibi is the complete opposite of that
Prechtel - When you need size on defense (opposing stationary post) or scoring from the post position