[JohnR34231]

Here's what I told my daughter about the game. Cal came out in an aggressive player to player defense that intimidated us from shooting 3s. Oniyeh's shot-blocking ability seemed to cause Nunu problems in the post and her shooting was off all night. We did not seem ready for the game - we were a step slow all night against an aggressive, physical team and second to every 50-50 ball. That can all be fixed with effort. The part that bothers me is that we played terrible defense - some of the worst I've seen from Stanford. I know that defense is partially effort...but that needs to be fixed.

Cal definitely got hot from 3 and it did look like one of those nights when we can't do anything and the other team shoots the lights out. Hoping for a better response on Monday...

Yeah, hopefully that game was an outlier. A little discouraging when you come oh so close to beating a top 5 team and then turn around and get your butts kicked by a team not even in the top 25. Teams are perhaps learning that if you stop Nunu they don't have anyone else who can beat you. Anyway we will find out more when we play Ohio State.

[JohnR34231]

Here's what I told my daughter about the game. Cal came out in an aggressive player to player defense that intimidated us from shooting 3s. Oniyeh's shot-blocking ability seemed to cause Nunu problems in the post and her shooting was off all night. We did not seem ready for the game - we were a step slow all night against an aggressive, physical team and second to every 50-50 ball. That can all be fixed with effort. The part that bothers me is that we played terrible defense - some of the worst I've seen from Stanford. I know that defense is partially effort...but that needs to be fixed.

Cal definitely got hot from 3 and it did look like one of those nights when we can't do anything and the other team shoots the lights out. Hoping for a better response on Monday...

Yeah, hopefully that game was an outlier. A little discouraging when you come oh so close to beating a top 5 team and then turn around and get your butts kicked by a team not even in the top 25. Teams are perhaps learning that if you stop Nunu they don't have anyone else who can beat you. Anyway we will find out more when we play Ohio State.