I'm so sad to have missed the game and what a bummer about the unreliable live feed. Still if anybody captured anything I'd love to see it.
Seeing the stat sheet after-the-fact bowled me over. We wound up doing considerably better against them than last year, even though they kept the core of their players and we lost our two leading scorers (Prechtel and Jones) from that game.
Iriafen is is truly impressive on the stat sheet. Sunday will tell us a whole lot more.
I'll say it again: Agara is our best in-traffic player since the days of Carrington and McPhee. I'll be interested to see how she got her points. Were most of them on drives? She got a lot of free throws so it looks like she took it through traffic to the basket a lot. We have desperately needed a player who could do that. This bodes well....
Nobody here has mentioned rebounding. But we had a 60:18 rebounding advantage. I am not sure if I have EVER seen that kind of rebounding dominance by Stanford or anybody else. What were we doing? At the start of the season I was very worried about who would start to replace Jones's rebounding, and it is now obvious: Iriafen. But Bosgana, Brink, and Demetre had 8 each indicating that team rebounding was truly superb and spread around.
Ogden did not miss a shot, but fouled out. Great offense and having trouble adjusting to defense? Were her fouls all legit?
We would have expected our bigs to be considerably better than the Hawaii bigs. But Hawaii has had good, speedy guards and it seems as if they shut down Lepolo and Clardy. The point guard stat line does look pretty bleak, with no points and more turnovers than assists. Did they do something positive that you could only see if you were watching? Did they break a Hawaii press and stand up to Hawaii pressure, or was the Hawaii defense fairly straightforward but they still had mediocre stats?
Seeing the stat sheet after-the-fact bowled me over. We wound up doing considerably better against them than last year, even though they kept the core of their players and we lost our two leading scorers (Prechtel and Jones) from that game.
Iriafen is is truly impressive on the stat sheet. Sunday will tell us a whole lot more.
I'll say it again: Agara is our best in-traffic player since the days of Carrington and McPhee. I'll be interested to see how she got her points. Were most of them on drives? She got a lot of free throws so it looks like she took it through traffic to the basket a lot. We have desperately needed a player who could do that. This bodes well....
Nobody here has mentioned rebounding. But we had a 60:18 rebounding advantage. I am not sure if I have EVER seen that kind of rebounding dominance by Stanford or anybody else. What were we doing? At the start of the season I was very worried about who would start to replace Jones's rebounding, and it is now obvious: Iriafen. But Bosgana, Brink, and Demetre had 8 each indicating that team rebounding was truly superb and spread around.
Ogden did not miss a shot, but fouled out. Great offense and having trouble adjusting to defense? Were her fouls all legit?
We would have expected our bigs to be considerably better than the Hawaii bigs. But Hawaii has had good, speedy guards and it seems as if they shut down Lepolo and Clardy. The point guard stat line does look pretty bleak, with no points and more turnovers than assists. Did they do something positive that you could only see if you were watching? Did they break a Hawaii press and stand up to Hawaii pressure, or was the Hawaii defense fairly straightforward but they still had mediocre stats?