[81alum]

I was at that Wake Forest game, and had a recollection of it tonight as well… except for an entirely different reason. It struck me that Gottlieb’s plan was to absolutely maul Brink (and, to some extent, Kiki) and not care how many fouls were called on their bigs.  That was Monty’s strategy against Duncan. It worked then and it worked tonight. Cam didn’t have a horrible night, but she was clearly rendered much less of a force than she generally is.

Too bad Tara didn’t come up with something anywhere near as effective against their star.

I thought about that game too.  Gottlieb used her 3 bigs including Rayah Marshall like Monty used Tim Young, Pete Van Elswyk, and Mark Madsen.  But only Young fouled out of that one, while Gottlieb lost all 3.  Tonight was maul-ball at its finest.

[81alum]

I was at that Wake Forest game, and had a recollection of it tonight as well… except for an entirely different reason. It struck me that Gottlieb’s plan was to absolutely maul Brink (and, to some extent, Kiki) and not care how many fouls were called on their bigs.  That was Monty’s strategy against Duncan. It worked then and it worked tonight. Cam didn’t have a horrible night, but she was clearly rendered much less of a force than she generally is.

Too bad Tara didn’t come up with something anywhere near as effective against their star.

I thought about that game too.  Gottlieb used her 3 bigs including Rayah Marshall like Monty used Tim Young, Pete Van Elswyk, and Mark Madsen.  But only Young fouled out of that one, while Gottlieb lost all 3.  Tonight was maul-ball at its finest.