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As per the ESPN announcers, the Indiana coach was concerned about the Stanford offense going 1-2-5 or 1-3-5.  Basically passing from the point guard to the shooting guard (Jump) or the wing (Bosgana among the starters and sometime Ogden and Demetre) who in turn feed the ball down low to Brink, or to Iriafen when Brink is out.  (Jump had 3 assists, Bosgana 2, Demetre 1.)  We will know if the triangle is working when the 2 and 3 start piling up assists.  This is the triangle, centered around feeding the ball to a dominant 5 close to the basket where the percentages of a made basket are very high.  It worked today.  Now, however, every future opponent knows what we are doing and will prep for it.   There were games where Connecticut and others shut down our triangle and embarrassed us.  So the key is to perfect it and sustain it.

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For an assist of pure beauty, and illustrating Jump's transition to a guard with multiple ways to score, take a look at the ESPN replay at 3rd quarter with 3:39 left, or 55:58 into the broadcast.  I know that Lepolo is too much of a "pure point guard" for some people's tastes, although nailing 2 three pointers today was a good thing.  But sometimes pure point guards really, really enable the offense of others, and this was a pretty one.

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Someone noted the makeup smudged on Brink's jersey.  You can see it at 57.9 left in the 3rd.  Or 59:55 into the ESPN replay.  Am I crazy, or is it insane that women are wearing makeup to play sports?  Just a feature of image-mongering in the era of NIL?

[81alum]

As per the ESPN announcers, the Indiana coach was concerned about the Stanford offense going 1-2-5 or 1-3-5.  Basically passing from the point guard to the shooting guard (Jump) or the wing (Bosgana among the starters and sometime Ogden and Demetre) who in turn feed the ball down low to Brink, or to Iriafen when Brink is out.  (Jump had 3 assists, Bosgana 2, Demetre 1.)  We will know if the triangle is working when the 2 and 3 start piling up assists.  This is the triangle, centered around feeding the ball to a dominant 5 close to the basket where the percentages of a made basket are very high.  It worked today.  Now, however, every future opponent knows what we are doing and will prep for it.   There were games where Connecticut and others shut down our triangle and embarrassed us.  So the key is to perfect it and sustain it.

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For an assist of pure beauty, and illustrating Jump's transition to a guard with multiple ways to score, take a look at the ESPN replay at 3rd quarter with 3:39 left, or 55:58 into the broadcast.  I know that Lepolo is too much of a "pure point guard" for some people's tastes, although nailing 2 three pointers today was a good thing.  But sometimes pure point guards really, really enable the offense of others, and this was a pretty one.

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Someone noted the makeup smudged on Brink's jersey.  You can see it at 57.9 left in the 3rd.  Or 59:55 into the ESPN replay.  Am I crazy, or is it insane that women are wearing makeup to play sports?  Just a feature of image-mongering in the era of NIL?