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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.

It really helps to get 43 out of 47 rebounds at their end (91.5%).  Getting 17 of 31 at our end (54.8%) is darn good too.
Hawaii was outmatched by every player, so they missed many contested shots.  We almost always had the better rebounding position simply from guarding them, not from rushing to the basket to rebound (or leaving players open to get in position for a rebound).  I hope I'm wrong but I don't think the rebounding disparity will translate to great numbers against a good team.  If we play this tight a defense against any team, we'll probably have good rebounding numbers.

Given the interior offensive advantage we showed, I'm not concerned about the relatively few 3s we took for most of the game.  Hawaii did use a player on Jump to minimize her 3s, but she converted in other ways.

It really seems that Tara and her coaches asked where could the 2022-2023 team have done better, and they and the players made that happen.  Faster ball movement, great FT shooting, strong defense, stronger rebounding, stronger interior play.  We'll see if those still look as good against better teams.  Oh yea, I noticed we got the ball into the front court faster.

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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.

It really helps to get 43 out of 47 rebounds at their end (91.5%).  Getting 17 of 31 at our end (54.8%) is darn good too.
Hawaii was outmatched by every player, so they missed many contested shots.  We almost always had the better rebounding position simply from guarding them, not from rushing to the basket to rebound (or leaving players open to get in position for a rebound).  I hope I'm wrong but I don't think the rebounding disparity will translate to great numbers against a good team.  If we play this tight a defense against any team, we'll probably have good rebounding numbers.

Given the interior offensive advantage we showed, I'm not concerned about the relatively few 3s we took for most of the game.  Hawaii did use a player on Jump to minimize her 3s, but she converted in other ways.

It really seems that Tara and her coaches asked where could the 2022-2023 team have done better, and they and the players made that happen.  Faster ball movement, great FT shooting, strong defense, stronger rebounding, stronger interior play.  We'll see if those still look as good against better teams.  Oh yea, I noticed we got the ball into the front court faster.