We went with our strength. Dorka is rebounding like every ball belongs to her. WOW! With this being only her 5th game of the season, she has shown incredible growth with both bigs being complements to each other. If Amari can join the rebounding party, our front line will be difficult to handle.
Seems like Paterson is several layups away from being an important piece of our team. It should happen soon. Would be good to see her really elevate on rebounds and move more toward the ball on passes to her. Her game needs more passion. Perhaps this is due to her playing quality minutes with proven players that she is deferring to too much. Hope the coaches can change that. Both she and Caroline need to slow their game down from 120 MPH to 90 when shooting.
For someone like Caroline Ducharme, I would have thought she would have been able to put a 20 points game easily, especially given the amount of minutes she played. Missed several bunnies. Something is still just night right with her. And now with that knock in the side of her head, having ab big ice pack placed on it, is a big concern. I hope and pray that she can finally snap out of it, this team needs a healthy and fully productive Caroline Ducharme to win it all this season
Boston doesn't hav to lead her team in scoring and she will still be the NPOY..even though I think Clark should get it..same goes with Haley Jones..she does so much more for her team than scoring..my point was that someone would have to have a really down year to bounce them down from 1St team AA..considering these girls are some of the best in the nation it seems unlikely this would occur..I do agree that AE is playing like an AA like we all thought she would last year and hopefully this will continue for the rest of the year thru the Ncaa championship game
The box score said there was only 2336 people there with a capacity of 2900 although at the start of the game I expected more crowd noise
When you get in the 20s for two items, it should have a different name, such as a Double Double, or we could just term it an "Aaliyah"!
I saw the same thing you did. Aaliyah has been feasting on that right side baseline drive. When Ronsiek closed off the baseline I wondered for a second if Aaliyah would pass it back out. But she gathered herself without hurrying, pivoted left and went around her to score. Wow, indeed! That was an AA level move. Both efficient and effective.
Her shot was off slightly- some of her 3 point tries went in & out or were just a tad strong. She is getting closer. I loved the pull-up jump shot she had in 2nd quarter. If she can develop that consistently, it will add to her arsenal.
I would have said Lou was key until I saw the pregame on SNY. Kara Wolters called it, she said she expected huge games from both Aaliyah and Dorka.
I agree with you about Ines. I know the Geno can do no wrong folks will not agre withme, but in a blowout game like last night there is no reason to risk injury to our engine while leaving Ines sitting on the bench for all but a cup of coffee. With no other back up PG Nika needs as much rest as possible and Ines needs court time to learn and improve. It's interesting that CD used Ines much more in the SH game than Geno last night and I think Ines did just fine against the Hall.
Ines got stitches in her nose after getting whacked in practice. She may have been played sparingly to prevent her getting hit again so soon
Ines went in to the game injured. I didn't quite catch want happened but someone said Ines was sporting a "massive" bandage on her forehead. I heard a later comment about "several stitches". I thought that was in reference to Lou but I suppose it could have been Ines.
I can't comment on that because I've only seen Stanford play 3 times..i do know everything goes thru jones and even though I'm not a fan Brinks seems to have stepped up her game ..of course she's always in foul trouble..as great as AE is playing she is really aggressive but not picking up the silly fouls she has in the past
I don't think it's a matter of snapping out of it..I just think she's not healthy enough to play like she did last year..she certainly doesn't move well at all on either ends of the court
One thing... regarding one previous AA... I have always liked Haley Jones and wish she had chosen UCONN instead of Stanford. But, as far as AA this season, her numbers are way down..
Well said. I was worried about this game against Creighton as well, especially after hearing that we would be playing with only seven players. We dodge a bullet because Creighton could not hit the barn with a baseball. Holy smokes! Someone posted that they were shooting 15% from the field and an eye popping 5% from three-point land. That helped a lot.
I watched the game 10 rows from the floor. You read a box score. I said in an earlier post, that Stanford could have picked the score. We have eyeballs, so we can make observations and we can analyze what we see and we can come to valid conclusions. Creighton can be heralded for a team truly reaching its potential last year. It’s a delicate formula. Partly, they are not playing as well, partly they do not have a positive attitude, and partly it is other teams learning how to defend them. Geno and Tara took away their open 3’s. All outside shots were contested. They cannot take advantage of inside action, players have no skills to finish inside, so teams are just covering the 3 point line.Except for the first quarter against Stanford the Bluejays basically played them even up for rest of the game, outscoring them 49 to 45. Also, @Urshurak and @cferraro04 the game against Marquette this Saturday is at Gampel not in Marquette, so there is no "on to Marquette".
I'd say, these are not 1st team AA numbers... yet. But if she's widely perceived as being the key to Stanford's success in all sorts of other intangible ways, she will still get some support.
My money is on the Croatian Sensation.
It's like an initiation at this point. You're not officially a Husky until you get a mask, stitches, or a brace.
BoneDog, it really is about the role Haley plays for Stanford. A quick check of her career numbers at Stanford shows she's right about where she was each of the past several seasons.
