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What an ugly win.  We should expect to get pressed on every possession in the following games.

That was agonizing. Without Lara we don't have enuf ball handlers. I assume we should beat Quinnipiac, but we only used 6 players. MLS was in for a few inconsequential minutes. We have no bench, period. Nunu may have been saving herself for the 4th qtr, and, in hindsight, I'm glad she did. The refs let them play, and that disadvantaged us because our 6 players couldn't afford to get in foul trouble. Sorry, but that's on us.

I knew that ball handling point would be curious the instant I posted it. You are right that it is not Lara's main skill,, but we have used her as an outlet to get the ball down the court. Nunu could also do it, but she has to do everything else and was exhausted in the 4th qtr.

Re "that's on us" I'm including Tara and the rest of the staff for not recruiting and developing more players we could put on the floor.

Lara is a fine player, but I don't see her ball-handling as one of her strong points. Without her, we really only have 7 players counting MLS.

But what do you mean "that's on us?" Without Lara, we only have 7 players that play regularly and I agree with the coach's decision...the rest of them aren't really ready to play at this level. The only two that I would add would be Ezike and Amborn - none of whom are ball handlers.

LMU was a pretty frantic pressing team - more so than Tennessee and Duke - but not a quick as them, fortunately. They were trapping us in the front-court...double and triple-teaming at times and we finally started to be able to handle it in the fourth quarter. But we do not have a large group of great ball handling guards on this time and that has cost us more this season than any lack of size.

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[quote="martyup" pid='447248' dateline='1773980164']
What an ugly win.  We should expect to get pressed on every possession in the following games.

That was agonizing. Without Lara we don't have enuf ball handlers. I assume we should beat Quinnipiac, but we only used 6 players. MLS was in for a few inconsequential minutes. We have no bench, period. Nunu may have been saving herself for the 4th qtr, and, in hindsight, I'm glad she did. The refs let them play, and that disadvantaged us because our 6 players couldn't afford to get in foul trouble. Sorry, but that's on us.

I knew that ball handling point would be curious the instant I posted it. You are right that it is not Lara's main skill,, but we have used her as an outlet to get the ball down the court. Nunu could also do it, but she has to do everything else and was exhausted in the 4th qtr.

Re "that's on us" I'm including Tara and the rest of the staff for not recruiting and developing more players we could put on the floor.

Lara is a fine player, but I don't see her ball-handling as one of her strong points. Without her, we really only have 7 players counting MLS.

But what do you mean "that's on us?" Without Lara, we only have 7 players that play regularly and I agree with the coach's decision...the rest of them aren't really ready to play at this level. The only two that I would add would be Ezike and Amborn - none of whom are ball handlers.

LMU was a pretty frantic pressing team - more so than Tennessee and Duke - but not a quick as them, fortunately. They were trapping us in the front-court...double and triple-teaming at times and we finally started to be able to handle it in the fourth quarter. But we do not have a large group of great ball handling guards on this time and that has cost us more this season than any lack of size.

Sorry. I totally messed up post placement here. Old Spanish Trail

[old spanish trail]

What an ugly win.  We should expect to get pressed on every possession in the following games.

That was agonizing. Without Lara we don't have enuf ball handlers. I assume we should beat Quinnipiac, but we only used 6 players. MLS was in for a few inconsequential minutes. We have no bench, period. Nunu may have been saving herself for the 4th qtr, and, in hindsight, I'm glad she did. The refs let them play, and that disadvantaged us because our 6 players couldn't afford to get in foul trouble. Sorry, but that's on us.

I knew that ball handling point would be curious the instant I posted it. You are right that it is not Lara's main skill,, but we have used her as an outlet to get the ball down the court. Nunu could also do it, but she has to do everything else and was exhausted in the 4th qtr.

Re "that's on us" I'm including Tara and the rest of the staff for not recruiting and developing more players we could put on the floor.

Lara is a fine player, but I don't see her ball-handling as one of her strong points. Without her, we really only have 7 players counting MLS.

But what do you mean "that's on us?" Without Lara, we only have 7 players that play regularly and I agree with the coach's decision...the rest of them aren't really ready to play at this level. The only two that I would add would be Ezike and Amborn - none of whom are ball handlers.

LMU was a pretty frantic pressing team - more so than Tennessee and Duke - but not a quick as them, fortunately. They were trapping us in the front-court...double and triple-teaming at times and we finally started to be able to handle it in the fourth quarter. But we do not have a large group of great ball handling guards on this time and that has cost us more this season than any lack of size.

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[quote="martyup" pid='447248' dateline='1773980164']
What an ugly win.  We should expect to get pressed on every possession in the following games.

That was agonizing. Without Lara we don't have enuf ball handlers. I assume we should beat Quinnipiac, but we only used 6 players. MLS was in for a few inconsequential minutes. We have no bench, period. Nunu may have been saving herself for the 4th qtr, and, in hindsight, I'm glad she did. The refs let them play, and that disadvantaged us because our 6 players couldn't afford to get in foul trouble. Sorry, but that's on us.

I knew that ball handling point would be curious the instant I posted it. You are right that it is not Lara's main skill,, but we have used her as an outlet to get the ball down the court. Nunu could also do it, but she has to do everything else and was exhausted in the 4th qtr.

Re "that's on us" I'm including Tara and the rest of the staff for not recruiting and developing more players we could put on the floor.

Lara is a fine player, but I don't see her ball-handling as one of her strong points. Without her, we really only have 7 players counting MLS.

But what do you mean "that's on us?" Without Lara, we only have 7 players that play regularly and I agree with the coach's decision...the rest of them aren't really ready to play at this level. The only two that I would add would be Ezike and Amborn - none of whom are ball handlers.

LMU was a pretty frantic pressing team - more so than Tennessee and Duke - but not a quick as them, fortunately. They were trapping us in the front-court...double and triple-teaming at times and we finally started to be able to handle it in the fourth quarter. But we do not have a large group of great ball handling guards on this time and that has cost us more this season than any lack of size.

Sorry. I totally messed up post placement here. Old Spanish Trail