[81alum]

Thanks, 81. Another great preview. One thing really struck me, if I read your text right. I. Their San Diego St game, 52 of their 77 points came from two guards. And then another 10 from the center. That means 15 points from everybody else.. That's a far cry from our hugely spread out scoring. I wonder what D Kate is going to come up with to deal with these two, and can she take advantage of possibility and unbalanced offense

Yes, I think you nailed it.  In that game their two guards each scored 27 points, their center scored 13 points, and 4 other players scored 2-4 points each.  I think Demetre can probably control Norris by herself, and we can rotate Lepolo, Clardy, Heal, Harriel and Ijiwoye on their two high scoring guards.  They just played an overtime game, and we have a lot of high energy guards.  Hopefully we can defend them well, even bring extra help from time to time, but at the least I bet they can be worn down.

They do have a 6'2" starting forward, but she played 39 minutes and made 2 points.  Perhaps she was kept in for defense, or maybe she usually scores more.  But that means we will need two "bigs" in the game, so expect to see MAS rotating in with Agara and Demetre quite a bit.  It would be fun to see more of Harper Peterson, but that will probably depend on how the game is going.

[81alum]

Thanks, 81. Another great preview. One thing really struck me, if I read your text right. I. Their San Diego St game, 52 of their 77 points came from two guards. And then another 10 from the center. That means 15 points from everybody else.. That's a far cry from our hugely spread out scoring. I wonder what D Kate is going to come up with to deal with these two, and can she take advantage of possibility and unbalanced offense

Yes, I think you nailed it.  In that game their two guards each scored 27 points, their center scored 13 points, and 4 other players scored 2-4 points each.  I think Demetre can probably control Norris by herself, and we can rotate Lepolo, Clardy, Heal, Harriel and Ijiwoye on their two high scoring guards.  They just played an overtime game, and we have a lot of high energy guards.  Hopefully we can defend them well, even bring extra help from time to time, but at the least I bet they can be worn down.

They do have a 6'2" starting forward, but she played 39 minutes and made 2 points.  Perhaps she was kept in for defense, or maybe she usually scores more.  But that means we will need two "bigs" in the game, so expect to see MAS rotating in with Agara and Demetre quite a bit.  It would be fun to see more of Harper Peterson, but that will probably depend on how the game is going.