#6 Stanford @ Washington St - 1/29/21

[nwhoopfan]

67-43 just under 5 minutes left. 16 apiece for Jones and Williams.

 

[nwhoopfan]

72-44. WSU pretty much hasn't scored since late in Q3. This was a 8 or 9 point game not all that long ago. Benches have been cleared, a bit over 2 minutes left.

 

[nwhoopfan]

77-49 final

 

[nwhoopfan]

Leger-Walkers had an even worse time of it today than Wednesday. Combined 7 pts. on 2-16 shooting, 1-7 behind the arc, 7 TOs.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Belibi was productive after getting pushed further down the rotation. 8 pts/6 boards in 10 minutes. Pretchtel's 3 3's in the first half were big. Brink didn't have the same kind of impact today as she did Wednesday, but she did block 5 shots again. Also 2nd game in a row she stayed out of foul trouble.

Murekatate was killing Stanford, and then she just disappeared after the mid point of the 3rd quarter.

 

[Lorcan]

Somebody has to tell Tara to quit doubling on drivers and leaving Bella all alone. It ain't working. Bella has 17. That's mostly on Tara, not Brink. Massive breakdown in their defensive scheme.

45-36, lead was just 15. Stanford forced to call a timeout.

edit--new career high for Bella, on 8-11 shooting; 9 just in this quarter, and we just hit the midway point

Its hard though, because by focusing on the drivers, Stanford was able to take away the Leger-Walkers who are having a great year. If I’m Tara, I’d rather let Mureketete try beat you on her own as more of an unknown quantity than letting the Leger Walkers go off from the floor.

 

[Lorcan]

69-0 for Stanford against Wazzu all time.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Its hard though, because by focusing on the drivers, Stanford was able to take away the Leger-Walkers who are having a great year. If I’m Tara, I’d rather let Mureketete try beat you on her own as more of an unknown quantity than letting the Leger Walkers go off from the floor.

She tweaked something, because the lobs to Bella off of the double team stopped happening. I know Belibi came in, for a little while they had a big lineup w/ Jones, Pretchtel and Belibi.

But yeah, completely taking the Leger-Walkers away 2 games in a row was quite a feat and as shown WSU is going to have a hard time winning games without those 2 scoring much.