Sitting in the stands I watched Lexie and Hollingshed duke it out for much of the game. Lexie worked her butt off on that assignment. Hollingshed is an ass. I don't tend to say that sort of thing about players but she crossed the line into bad sportsmanship/overly physical play. Threw a few elbows, was wacking her defenders arm hard when the defender put an legal arm bar on her when guarding, etc., etc. Crowd cheered when she got fouls and sat. I have no complaint with our guards given the style of the game. They did not turn the ball over that much considering. Also seemed like players had trouble hanging onto the ball, maybe because it was an unusually warm day, sweaty palms. Or someone greased the ball.
I felt the bigger issues were rebounding - we let CO have several possessions where they got 3 or 4 cracks at the basket, and not finishing well inside. Just wasn't a hot night for anyone shooting really, but overall we had enough offense, which CO doesn't have. Once we got ahead by 9 or 10 in the second half I did not feel like CO had a good chance to come back unless we really started to do crazy TOs, which we did not.
Wilson had another really good game. She has stepped it up from early in the season and is really making a big difference with her defense and ball handling. Are we perfect at the guard spots? No super star there so no. Good enough to beat anyone and therefore good enough maybe to win it all? Yes, IMO.
Refs sucked by the way. After Jump got trampled right in front of our bench, Tara was up and jawing at the official, which as we know, is unlike her even if she doesn't like a call. She has to really hate a call to get that overtly upset.
I felt the bigger issues were rebounding - we let CO have several possessions where they got 3 or 4 cracks at the basket, and not finishing well inside. Just wasn't a hot night for anyone shooting really, but overall we had enough offense, which CO doesn't have. Once we got ahead by 9 or 10 in the second half I did not feel like CO had a good chance to come back unless we really started to do crazy TOs, which we did not.
Wilson had another really good game. She has stepped it up from early in the season and is really making a big difference with her defense and ball handling. Are we perfect at the guard spots? No super star there so no. Good enough to beat anyone and therefore good enough maybe to win it all? Yes, IMO.
Refs sucked by the way. After Jump got trampled right in front of our bench, Tara was up and jawing at the official, which as we know, is unlike her even if she doesn't like a call. She has to really hate a call to get that overtly upset.