[treetop11]

As usual, I find Chimera's comments spot on and agree. WSU has a lineup of beefy, chunky players who play physical and bump and body up a lot. Credit to them in how tight on D thye played our players giving little room for passes and movements. Between their physical play and D pressure, it messed up our O especially with Lexie out and Tara wanting to expand the rotation in view of the upcoming tournaments. Frankly, I think it was great that we played a team like WSU and their style of play. It's something we need to see and adapt to because we don't know what we will run into in the tourney. 

I've noticed that besides Tara and coaches obviously being able to adapt to different things we run into, our players do a good job too. But the best thing is that this team has such a great variety of talented players that it makes it tougher for opponents to throw stuff at us that works for a full game. We can go big or small or in between. We can can go with length or bulk, quickness or slow down, transition or half court, and almost everyone plays exceptional defense. This is a strong team and Anna's emergence as a stabilizing and effective PG has solved our main early concern. No other team vcan match us in the post, and with Haley and Lexie available to slash, hit mid range or finish at the basket with 3 point snipers available we are very tough to defend. If Haley could consistently hit from 3, the other teams might as well concede the game. 

The one vulnerabiity that we have all seen is when teams like WSU or Colorado to name a couple play us ugly and disrupt our flow. But remember we still won those games - not as easily as we would like, but a W is a W. Regardless, we'll figure it out if need be going forward on better ways to attack and paly better when team stry ot play us ugly. 

BTW, the officiating last night was poor. Bugs me that Brink was called for a couple of non-existent fouls whereas with about 4 minutes left in the game, she was shoved to the floor when we were in transition and no call was made. And I couldn't believe that the refs called O fouls on a few of our screens. It's not that they weren't fouls - they were - but rather that 55 for WSU was fouling on almost every screen she set. She was constantly moving, sticking our her hip, banging, etc. Her screens looked more like football blocking.

[treetop11]

As usual, I find Chimera's comments spot on and agree. WSU has a lineup of beefy, chunky players who play physical and bump and body up a lot. Credit to them in how tight on D thye played our players giving little room for passes and movements. Between their physical play and D pressure, it messed up our O especially with Lexie out and Tara wanting to expand the rotation in view of the upcoming tournaments. Frankly, I think it was great that we played a team like WSU and their style of play. It's something we need to see and adapt to because we don't know what we will run into in the tourney. 

I've noticed that besides Tara and coaches obviously being able to adapt to different things we run into, our players do a good job too. But the best thing is that this team has such a great variety of talented players that it makes it tougher for opponents to throw stuff at us that works for a full game. We can go big or small or in between. We can can go with length or bulk, quickness or slow down, transition or half court, and almost everyone plays exceptional defense. This is a strong team and Anna's emergence as a stabilizing and effective PG has solved our main early concern. No other team vcan match us in the post, and with Haley and Lexie available to slash, hit mid range or finish at the basket with 3 point snipers available we are very tough to defend. If Haley could consistently hit from 3, the other teams might as well concede the game. 

The one vulnerabiity that we have all seen is when teams like WSU or Colorado to name a couple play us ugly and disrupt our flow. But remember we still won those games - not as easily as we would like, but a W is a W. Regardless, we'll figure it out if need be going forward on better ways to attack and paly better when team stry ot play us ugly. 

BTW, the officiating last night was poor. Bugs me that Brink was called for a couple of non-existent fouls whereas with about 4 minutes left in the game, she was shoved to the floor when we were in transition and no call was made. And I couldn't believe that the refs called O fouls on a few of our screens. It's not that they weren't fouls - they were - but rather that 55 for WSU was fouling on almost every screen she set. She was constantly moving, sticking our her hip, banging, etc. Her screens looked more like football blocking.