[mbdude]

I was only able to watch the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I couldn't really get a sense of the flow of the game.  

In looking at the box score, two stats really jumped out.  

The first was PT: every starter except Belibi had 35+ minutes, and Lacie had 26.  (Which also felt strange because the part I saw included that awesome stretch where Prechtel scored all of her 11 points.)  But I wonder why Tara choose to limit the rotation that way.  Not second-guessing, just wondering.


Second, Cal outshot us at the line, 18/20 vs only 4/6; so from the field we outscored them by 28!  Were they just getting a lot of homer calls, are we a step slow on D, or what?

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

Can someone who saw the whole game shed some light?  The game seemed to have pretty uneven flow, given the outcome.

My interpretation is that we tried to play much the same style of defense as we did on Friday, but the refs on Friday called it loosely and the refs today called it tight.  Playing an aggressive, handsy, close defense shut down the Cal offense last time, but today it generated a boatload of fouls.  Not only did the points from the free throws keep Cal in the game, the style of officiating made us change the style of defense, and Cal was able to get into more of a rhythm scoring.  As to why Tara heaped all the minutes on five players--she must have felt that Williams, Lexie, Lacie, Fingall and Jones were doing the best defensively.  When you look at the +/- scores, the five with the most minutes were also the +/- leaders by a large margin.  Prechtel--despite her fabulous 9 minutes, was well behind the other five in +/-, and no one else was close.

My thought is Tara was thinking ahead to Oregon game where we may see that combo often; with an injection of Jump, and Prechtel

[mbdude]

I was only able to watch the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I couldn't really get a sense of the flow of the game.  

In looking at the box score, two stats really jumped out.  

The first was PT: every starter except Belibi had 35+ minutes, and Lacie had 26.  (Which also felt strange because the part I saw included that awesome stretch where Prechtel scored all of her 11 points.)  But I wonder why Tara choose to limit the rotation that way.  Not second-guessing, just wondering.


Second, Cal outshot us at the line, 18/20 vs only 4/6; so from the field we outscored them by 28!  Were they just getting a lot of homer calls, are we a step slow on D, or what?

One other thing was that Kiana seemed to be constantly driving in but it seemed like she left a few points out there.  She ended up 10/18 but I wonder if 15 of those attempts were layups.

Can someone who saw the whole game shed some light?  The game seemed to have pretty uneven flow, given the outcome.

My interpretation is that we tried to play much the same style of defense as we did on Friday, but the refs on Friday called it loosely and the refs today called it tight.  Playing an aggressive, handsy, close defense shut down the Cal offense last time, but today it generated a boatload of fouls.  Not only did the points from the free throws keep Cal in the game, the style of officiating made us change the style of defense, and Cal was able to get into more of a rhythm scoring.  As to why Tara heaped all the minutes on five players--she must have felt that Williams, Lexie, Lacie, Fingall and Jones were doing the best defensively.  When you look at the +/- scores, the five with the most minutes were also the +/- leaders by a large margin.  Prechtel--despite her fabulous 9 minutes, was well behind the other five in +/-, and no one else was close.

My thought is Tara was thinking ahead to Oregon game where we may see that combo often; with an injection of Jump, and Prechtel