I could be wrong, but I imagine you think Paopao's absence hurt Oregon significantly and could have contributed or did contribute to their 2 losses to Oregon State. Interestingly, that is not the same as Kelly Graves's take...as he states at the start of the post-game presser after Sunday's game....in the absences of a star, other players step up in the short term, thereby minimizing the impact of the lost player.
Benefitted is a good word. I think strategized is another. From what I heard Rutgers had quite a plan in place that kept all of the players in the loop while dealing with the pause. If recollection is correct, OSU worked out a lot of kinks as well.
That’s WBB for yuh. A team scores 6 in one quarter and 30 in the next
This year, huge mystery how each team will be seeded. I don't think this OSU team is concerned about where they will be seeded--they just want to play.
Yes, exactly. He's not going to bemoan that one of his best players was unavailable for the game because he knows that it would come across as making excuses and he doesn't want to take away from the opponent's win. But of course it goes without saying Oregon is a lesser team without Paopao.
As is Oregon State without Kennedy Brown. It's "funny" how many folks ignore or "forget" this fact yet push the Paopao argument.
I didn't realize Brown had played this year.
Doesn't matter. If she didn't get hurt she would have/would be and no doubt making a major impact.
Irrelevant to the original point.
It is totally relevant. Ducks are/were missing an important player and so are/were the Beavers. People are free to point out the loss of a key player and so am I. And yes, not everything is an attack...you are very right about that. Finally, I'm not into boxing, but I do like Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer".
There is a significant difference between losing a key player midseason and not having a key player available all season long for an injury sustained 12 months ago. If the latter were the case with Paopao, then our friend @maccca3232 would certainly not have bothered to point out the issue.
! agree that Oregon State had a lot more time to try and adjust to the loss of a key player (Brown) compared to Oregon which had very little time to adjust to the sudden loss of Paopao. However, I don't see how Oregon State ever made up for the huge loss of Brown, even as others of less skill and ability have practiced and played her position in her absence. And, surely Oregon practiced with other gals running the point long before Paopao's injury. Graves would have been derelict in his duty not to do so. Surely Oregon was not caught completely off "guard" - pun intended
My qualification was made based on what is assumed. Most following this season would assume that Paopao was their starting PG.
Another qualification I am a Huskies fan. If I am being honest I more of a Ducks fan than Beavers one but overall I am very objective.
I have similar ideas about Kennedy Brown, in that Brown was (and hopefully will be again in the future) OSU's best defender of the opponent's bigs (as in, no way do Prince and Sabally light up the scoreboard and garner so many rebounds with Brown in the lineup). The impact of Prince and Sabally being more neutralized during the 2 OSU wins over Oregon would have been huge.