[TheWildJacko]

The tournament will decide this season.  Either we will redeem ourselves and get to the Final Four or more.  Or we will lose in the Sweet Sixteen and it will be a toilet bowl season relative to the potential of this team.

Agreed about the importance of the Big Dance now.  We just have to see how far our coming 2 seed can carry us.  I guess I would be content with the 2008 model when we knocked off #1 seed Maryland and made it all the way to the title game, but I worry about the 2013 model (loss to Georgia in the sweet 16).  

We have enormous talent on this team, but it has not completely come together and jelled all year.  It has been a very uncharacteristic year as far as improvement goes.  We now have 5 losses for the season, with the likelihood that we will wind up with six.  That is high for Stanford WBB, but is especially surprising with our current talent level.

Let's see if a little time for sober reflection and intense practice can give us a much better 2nd tourney than our first.

In all sincerity, I disagree that there is "enormous talent" on this team. Cam, Jump, and Jones, YES. But I don't see enormous talent beyond that. Jury is still out on Betts; she has great size but is slow and couldn't cover Boston-type opponents. Don't yet see much ability to shoot when she's further than 4-5 feet away. Btw, I agree with another poster that Cam is the only one on the team who plays with relentless intensity. SC is light years ahead of SU on that front. Teams reflects their coaches personalities. I venture to predict that the women's game is going to get progressively more intense and feisty over the next five years. It's not going to be (relatively) mellow, low-contact, and "polite" like it used to be. It's going to require teams that want to win to adapt to the new reality.

Please, in the future, if your inclination is to comment on how our team is not talented or they don't "want to win," consider not posting. Just give it a thought.

[TheWildJacko]

The tournament will decide this season.  Either we will redeem ourselves and get to the Final Four or more.  Or we will lose in the Sweet Sixteen and it will be a toilet bowl season relative to the potential of this team.

Agreed about the importance of the Big Dance now.  We just have to see how far our coming 2 seed can carry us.  I guess I would be content with the 2008 model when we knocked off #1 seed Maryland and made it all the way to the title game, but I worry about the 2013 model (loss to Georgia in the sweet 16).  

We have enormous talent on this team, but it has not completely come together and jelled all year.  It has been a very uncharacteristic year as far as improvement goes.  We now have 5 losses for the season, with the likelihood that we will wind up with six.  That is high for Stanford WBB, but is especially surprising with our current talent level.

Let's see if a little time for sober reflection and intense practice can give us a much better 2nd tourney than our first.

In all sincerity, I disagree that there is "enormous talent" on this team. Cam, Jump, and Jones, YES. But I don't see enormous talent beyond that. Jury is still out on Betts; she has great size but is slow and couldn't cover Boston-type opponents. Don't yet see much ability to shoot when she's further than 4-5 feet away. Btw, I agree with another poster that Cam is the only one on the team who plays with relentless intensity. SC is light years ahead of SU on that front. Teams reflects their coaches personalities. I venture to predict that the women's game is going to get progressively more intense and feisty over the next five years. It's not going to be (relatively) mellow, low-contact, and "polite" like it used to be. It's going to require teams that want to win to adapt to the new reality.

Please, in the future, if your inclination is to comment on how our team is not talented or they don't "want to win," consider not posting. Just give it a thought.