02-16-2021, 09:56 AM
(02-15-2021, 09:51 PM)chimera Wrote: I will not comment much on the officiating. They let them play for better or worse. I think Oregon took better advantage of that until the bitter end, when we had to be very aggressive on defense and were. I think the zone bothered us more than anything, that and Oregon being so hot from three. Williams was very good. She dibbled into trouble a few times but hard to blame her when nothing else was really working on offense and she had to make something happen or try to. Brink was fine in the big minutes but I do think she got doubled more in the second half, which made her a bit more hesitant to make her moves. Defense was ok. We let them get too many threes. Oregon is very tough when they hit threes (most teams are, I know) because they can space the floor so much and have good inside players. they did make some contested threes.
Lexie really help late with rebounds, steals, kept them from extending the lead when they snuck ahead. I would assume Lacie was in for Anna just for more size and length on defense out there. Hope Anna is ok from the fall she took. She did play after that so I think she probably is ok.
Way too many turnovers. Some was on the refs, who called no fouls so everyone piled on for tie ups.
Two things concern me most of all. Well three I guess. First is the zone offense needs a lot of work and fast. Second is we need more from other posts than Brink. Belibi has disappeared after playing well for half the season. Some is Brink playing well and taking playing time, some seems to be a slump. We need her back playing well and we need Prechtel back so we have a strong rotation. Third is we need Jones to be less Jekyll and Hyde. When she doesn't turn the ball over she can be amazing, but she has too many avoidable turnovers and when she gets in TO mode, her offense evaporates. She is too talented to have that many unforced errors and/or forced shots at bad times.
All in all, big road win against a very good team that was hot from three, which is their forte, so can't complain too much, though losing that big lead was painful.
Your three points are well-taken, but I fear we just have to live with them this year.
3-pt shooting is just not as good as it needs to be at this point, and I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done about that. Both Hulls in particular are not shooting as well as they have in the past.
Post depth was something we thought would be a strength at the beginning of the year, but I get the feeling that Prechtel is really a big wing playing in a post's body. I do get worried because Brink takes a real pounding in the paint when officiating is this lax.
With Jones, there will be great plays and there will be frustrating turnovers, and I think at this point we just have to hope the former outweighs the latter, or that the inconsistency is balanced out by, for example, Kiana's great first half.
Losing that 15-point lead so quickly before the end of the half was bothersome, but even before we upped the margin to 15 there were multiple possessions where our tough D gave us a chance to put in an early dagger with the ball and an 8-10 pt lead -- and we just couldn't convert those opportunities.
Kiana played all 40 minutes. Where would we be without her, but still, not great IMO.
I had to laugh at one point in the first half where the play-by-play announcer said something to the effect of Sabally attempting a finesse shot. Sabally plays with all the finesse of a runaway 18-wheeler.