Column on Oregon's Loss to Stanford

[DEpup]

MJ was not a PG? She IS the best PG in the world, and will prove it when she takes over the USA/Olympics from Sue. (pulling your leg)
I read MJ --Moriah Jefferson, old 23 no longer enters the brain.

I think MJ=Michael Jordan in this particular post.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm not sure you are disagreeing to my statement AAC teams would beat them or the acknowledge of an error in judgement and saying it was hyperbole (BS)
https://the-boneyard.com/threads/O
If you disagree with either you are more than right. ON that championship night, Stanford was bad that night --USF with a full team may have beaten them. The rest, without UC, could not beat that team (maybe?). Thanks I appreciate varying and different opinions--thats why I'm so different.

The Pac 12 Championship game was ugly, but I thought it was mostly due to two good teams who know each other very well slugging it out. I think much of Oregon's struggles were due to Stanford's defense, and some vice versa. Stanford doesn't press or trap usually, they don't force a ton of turnovers, but they play really solid scouting report defense and take away what you want to do. It's been that way for years. Oregon came into the game averaging in the mid 80's, had just scored 88 (in OT) the night before, Stanford held them to 30 points below their average. I gotta think if they could do that to Oregon's offense, they would've held some AAC teams under 50 points. If you can do that, your offense doesn't have to be pretty. Not to mention many AAC teams would probably struggle to handle the trio of Smith, Carrington and Williams. Sometimes Stanford gets almost no scoring outside of their Big 3, but it's usually enough having those 3 carry them.

 

[triaddukefan]

The Pac 12 Championship game was ugly, but I thought it was mostly due to two good teams who know each other very well slugging it out. I think much of Oregon's struggles were due to Stanford's defense, and some vice versa. Stanford doesn't press or trap usually, they don't force a ton of turnovers, but they play really solid scouting report defense and take away what you want to do. It's been that way for years. Oregon came into the game averaging in the mid 80's, had just scored 88 (in OT) the night before, Stanford held them to 30 points below their average. I gotta think if they could do that to Oregon's offense, they would've held some AAC teams under 50 points. If you can do that, your offense doesn't have to be pretty. Not to mention many AAC teams would probably struggle to handle the trio of Smith, Carrington and Williams. Sometimes Stanford gets almost no scoring outside of their Big 3, but it's usually enough having those 3 carry them.

3 games in 3 days might have something to do with it.... maybe?

 

[BroadwayVa]

The Pac 12 Championship game was ugly, but I thought it was mostly due to two good teams who know each other very well slugging it out. I think much of Oregon's struggles were due to Stanford's defense, and some vice versa. Stanford doesn't press or trap usually, they don't force a ton of turnovers, but they play really solid scouting report defense and take away what you want to do. It's been that way for years. Oregon came into the game averaging in the mid 80's, had just scored 88 (in OT) the night before, Stanford held them to 30 points below their average. I gotta think if they could do that to Oregon's offense, they would've held some AAC teams under 50 points. If you can do that, your offense doesn't have to be pretty. Not to mention many AAC teams would probably struggle to handle the trio of Smith, Carrington and Williams. Sometimes Stanford gets almost no scoring outside of their Big 3, but it's usually enough having those 3 carry them.

I have watched a ton of Stanford games but none that I remember against Oregon or Oregon st. My expectation from Tara's teams is precision, not of the Uconn kind but they usually have a flow to their games.
I liked that they both battled in the final seconds. But earlier there were long periods, it seemed, that neither side could find the rim. Ugly is expected from the UCF's .

 

[JoePgh]

I will admit that I haven't watched a ton of Ionescu's games, but I have watched enough to form the impression that she has difficulty guarding quick opponents, and her own ability to drive to the hoop against competent defenders is limited. She is an excellent shooter and passer, and obviously has an extremely competitive motor.

But still, given her apparent shortcomings in speed and quickness on both sides of the ball, how does she qualify as NPOY or as the #1 overall WNBA draft pick?