I arrived at the game just before the end of the first quarter. The game I saw after that looked sloppy for Stanford on both offense and defense. The Stanford players, on offense, were
On defense, the opponents were able to get open shots and too many rebounds. A game or two back, the TV announcer was saying how Stanford needed to stay back after a shot to try to get a rebound. That's something that we've been seeing for a long time, presumably because the coaches wanted to stop fast breaks and transitions. I think other teams are taking advantage of that. Percentage-wise Stanford was out rebounded. Stanford got 35/46 = 76.1% of their possible defensive rebounds, and 6/31 = 19.4% of the offensive rebounds, for a total of 95.5% (os Syracuse totaled 104.5).
I'm glad we were able to hit our 3-pt shots (45%) when the other team was weaker. After missing the first 3 FT, we were 16 of 17.
It was painfully obvious that Shay was not put on the shortest opponent. Clardy got that assignment, it seemed.
Some will say Bosgana had a great game with 18 points and 11 rebounds. But, she played 29 minutes and had a +/- of 0. So, Stanford scored all its 21 point advantage in the 11 minutes that Bosgana was on the bench. I did not expect that!
The officials were nothing special either. Remember the "obvious" travel call on Umeh. Uh, ref, it isn''t traveling until she puts her pivot foot down, when you're shooting. Her pivot foot hadn't come down; it wasn't a travel when the whistle blew. Yeah, it looked ugly, but that's the rule.
- making weak passes
- telegraphing passes
- in at least one case, passing into an already established triple team!
- dribbling into spots from which they couldn't pass when double teamed
- all too often getting a short defender on a much taller offensive player
On defense, the opponents were able to get open shots and too many rebounds. A game or two back, the TV announcer was saying how Stanford needed to stay back after a shot to try to get a rebound. That's something that we've been seeing for a long time, presumably because the coaches wanted to stop fast breaks and transitions. I think other teams are taking advantage of that. Percentage-wise Stanford was out rebounded. Stanford got 35/46 = 76.1% of their possible defensive rebounds, and 6/31 = 19.4% of the offensive rebounds, for a total of 95.5% (os Syracuse totaled 104.5).
I'm glad we were able to hit our 3-pt shots (45%) when the other team was weaker. After missing the first 3 FT, we were 16 of 17.
It was painfully obvious that Shay was not put on the shortest opponent. Clardy got that assignment, it seemed.
Some will say Bosgana had a great game with 18 points and 11 rebounds. But, she played 29 minutes and had a +/- of 0. So, Stanford scored all its 21 point advantage in the 11 minutes that Bosgana was on the bench. I did not expect that!
The officials were nothing special either. Remember the "obvious" travel call on Umeh. Uh, ref, it isn''t traveling until she puts her pivot foot down, when you're shooting. Her pivot foot hadn't come down; it wasn't a travel when the whistle blew. Yeah, it looked ugly, but that's the rule.