11-28-2014, 06:20 PM
The good news is that Lili has got her offense back. The bad news is that we are behind by 12 with 11 minutes to play. They are making more treys and have 15 O boards compared with 7 for us. It is not looking very good for us.Â
McCall missed two free throws and then we gave up a trey at the other end. It felt an awful like like the end, even though there are 10 minutes left, with NC 51 and Stanford 36. Points are just so hard to come by. Then they hit another 3.
McDaniel, one of their big forwards, is pulling a Ruef on us. It somehow seems appropriate. Like Ruef, she has almost never made 3 point shots. So far today she has made three. It is the mirror image of what Ruef did to them last spring.
In any case, with NC up 54 to 38 it just does not seem very hopeful with 8 minutes left. NC is now 9/24 from three point range. The announcer said that at one point we were playing zone. It sounds as if we schemed to shut down their bigs with a zone, and then NC began shooting threes successfully, including with one of their bigs, and we never responded.
With NC already up with a big lead, Latifah Coleman just made two consecutive three point shots. NC is now shooting 42% from three point range. We obviously need to work on our perimeter defense. This one is depressingly over--a twenty point deficit with five minutes left. At least the loss to Texas went to overtime and was a close, hard fought game. This is turning into an embarrassment. The further behind we get the more accurate the NC players become and the less accurate we become.  We have gone more than 5 minutes without a point. Tara sends in Tess, who gets a block! She is also giving McPhee some time in this lost game.
This seems like the longest game I can remember--just psychologically of course. The game seemed to be decided with so much time left in the half, it has actually taken some fortitude to listen to a bad loss become worse.
A few bright spots. Erica Payne got a steal and a layup, Roberson caught some offense in the end, Tess got a block, McPhee sinks some free throws. Camp and Rooks get some time. I guess losing by a bundle does open up some opportunities for the non starters.
McCall missed two free throws and then we gave up a trey at the other end. It felt an awful like like the end, even though there are 10 minutes left, with NC 51 and Stanford 36. Points are just so hard to come by. Then they hit another 3.
McDaniel, one of their big forwards, is pulling a Ruef on us. It somehow seems appropriate. Like Ruef, she has almost never made 3 point shots. So far today she has made three. It is the mirror image of what Ruef did to them last spring.
In any case, with NC up 54 to 38 it just does not seem very hopeful with 8 minutes left. NC is now 9/24 from three point range. The announcer said that at one point we were playing zone. It sounds as if we schemed to shut down their bigs with a zone, and then NC began shooting threes successfully, including with one of their bigs, and we never responded.
With NC already up with a big lead, Latifah Coleman just made two consecutive three point shots. NC is now shooting 42% from three point range. We obviously need to work on our perimeter defense. This one is depressingly over--a twenty point deficit with five minutes left. At least the loss to Texas went to overtime and was a close, hard fought game. This is turning into an embarrassment. The further behind we get the more accurate the NC players become and the less accurate we become.  We have gone more than 5 minutes without a point. Tara sends in Tess, who gets a block! She is also giving McPhee some time in this lost game.
This seems like the longest game I can remember--just psychologically of course. The game seemed to be decided with so much time left in the half, it has actually taken some fortitude to listen to a bad loss become worse.
A few bright spots. Erica Payne got a steal and a layup, Roberson caught some offense in the end, Tess got a block, McPhee sinks some free throws. Camp and Rooks get some time. I guess losing by a bundle does open up some opportunities for the non starters.