[MV72018]

1. Six Stanford players off the bench racked up 53 minutes of playing time and scored a rousing total of 3 points in the entire game! 

2. Two of the starters were non-factors: Iriakin (0 points) and Lepolo (2 points) in 37 minutes. Both of them desperately need to develop a reliable shot or it will be 5 defenders of theirs on 3 offensive players of ours. 

3. Brink, Jones, and Jump scored 44 of Stanford's 49 points. 

Mind-boggling. Only 8 assists in this game for Stanford.

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And, for all those who claim Tara does not take responsibility, she does. 

"This last month has been really hard.  We tried to rest our team as much as possible.  We needed to be playing better than we are right now.  I think our offense really struggled, and when that happens people try to do it by themselves, and I saw that throughout the whole game.  Both Haley and Cam felt like they needed to do it by themselves and that's on me.  We worked really hard every day to run offense, move the ball, set screens, and we struggled with it."

Okay but the offense has struggled all year, and the only change she ever made was putting Agnes or Kiki in the starting lineup, and she had a lot more “offensive” options to compliment Brink’s  or Haley’s skillset.

I am glad she said “it is on [her].” That’s refreshing. Because the announcers kept saying from the beginning of the game and throughout the game that Tara said her team was in for a “rude awakening” re: Ole Miss’ defense. Those were her exact words to the announcers pregame and I kept thinking: aren’t you the coach? Why would your team be in for a rude awakening if you prepared them? Isn’t that your job?

Precisely. She had ample time to prepare them after an easy game (after the first quarter) against SHU. Didn't the other coaches have specific game plans and plays ready to install on Saturday and go over again early today? What a strange thing for Tara to say before the game. Sounds almost fatalistic. Looking forward, this will not be the last time Tara's team will face this kind of athletic defense. It's going to happen with increasing frequency. So Tara needs to change both the kinds of players she recruits and the O she installs. Will she? Remains to be seen.

[MV72018]

1. Six Stanford players off the bench racked up 53 minutes of playing time and scored a rousing total of 3 points in the entire game! 

2. Two of the starters were non-factors: Iriakin (0 points) and Lepolo (2 points) in 37 minutes. Both of them desperately need to develop a reliable shot or it will be 5 defenders of theirs on 3 offensive players of ours. 

3. Brink, Jones, and Jump scored 44 of Stanford's 49 points. 

Mind-boggling. Only 8 assists in this game for Stanford.

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And, for all those who claim Tara does not take responsibility, she does. 

"This last month has been really hard.  We tried to rest our team as much as possible.  We needed to be playing better than we are right now.  I think our offense really struggled, and when that happens people try to do it by themselves, and I saw that throughout the whole game.  Both Haley and Cam felt like they needed to do it by themselves and that's on me.  We worked really hard every day to run offense, move the ball, set screens, and we struggled with it."

Okay but the offense has struggled all year, and the only change she ever made was putting Agnes or Kiki in the starting lineup, and she had a lot more “offensive” options to compliment Brink’s  or Haley’s skillset.

I am glad she said “it is on [her].” That’s refreshing. Because the announcers kept saying from the beginning of the game and throughout the game that Tara said her team was in for a “rude awakening” re: Ole Miss’ defense. Those were her exact words to the announcers pregame and I kept thinking: aren’t you the coach? Why would your team be in for a rude awakening if you prepared them? Isn’t that your job?

Precisely. She had ample time to prepare them after an easy game (after the first quarter) against SHU. Didn't the other coaches have specific game plans and plays ready to install on Saturday and go over again early today? What a strange thing for Tara to say before the game. Sounds almost fatalistic. Looking forward, this will not be the last time Tara's team will face this kind of athletic defense. It's going to happen with increasing frequency. So Tara needs to change both the kinds of players she recruits and the O she installs. Will she? Remains to be seen.