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It looks like Stanford will advance as far as Jones and Brink can carry them. I wonder if some of the younger players on the team are reluctant to try to step up in close games, instead deferring to Brink and Jones.

I was wondering the same thing. I crunched some numbers and came away with the same impression you did. 
I broke down scoring in the 4th quarter and OT of our non-blowout P12 games and compared against the results for the entire season. For the season, Brink accounted for 19.5% of our total scoring but 25.9% of our 4Q+ scoring in tight P12 games. For Jones, the difference was even greater: 17.5% of our total scoring for the season, but 31.8% in the 4Q or OT of tight P12 games.
So it does seem that, late in tight games, we have been relying much more on Brink and Jones for our scoring, either by design or due to deference by the other players.

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It looks like Stanford will advance as far as Jones and Brink can carry them. I wonder if some of the younger players on the team are reluctant to try to step up in close games, instead deferring to Brink and Jones.

I was wondering the same thing. I crunched some numbers and came away with the same impression you did. 
I broke down scoring in the 4th quarter and OT of our non-blowout P12 games and compared against the results for the entire season. For the season, Brink accounted for 19.5% of our total scoring but 25.9% of our 4Q+ scoring in tight P12 games. For Jones, the difference was even greater: 17.5% of our total scoring for the season, but 31.8% in the 4Q or OT of tight P12 games.
So it does seem that, late in tight games, we have been relying much more on Brink and Jones for our scoring, either by design or due to deference by the other players.