Dorka and AE's best game this year although that 17 rebound game Dorka had was right there with it. I'm surprised Dorka had it in her as she looked like she was struggling badly last game but we really needed her tonight and she came up huge. Part of that was that Morrow was playing AE a lot and Dorka had a mismatch on her.
CW real solid again tonight. People think she's inconsistent but she's as consistent as just about anyone on the team not named Paige.
Nika's best game of the year but I still would make her a 5-10 minute per game player as soon as everyone's healthy. She's valuable as a back up and probably future coach. She may end up making a lot of money as a coach someday. Love her effort and intensity.
Personally, I didn't see the great floor game Azzi is reputed to have had tonight. I saw a lot of standing around tonight, very few screens set for her and not that much different in defense. They got past her several times on corner drives to the basket and overall I thought her defense was about what we have seen recently, which is good. I think overall, it was a bad game for her. It seems as though the plan was to be out there to open up spacing for drives, but that created very few shots for her as well. De Paul didn't leave her open and she generally stayed behind the 3 point line, often in the corner. If the plan was for her to be sacrificed to open up the lanes it worked. I don't think that was the plan though.
Solid game by Evina, including lots of things not necessarily easy to see. Great mature, team player.
Overall though, the Tennessee game and tonight's game were mainly won because the other team imploded to a degree. If the other team doesn't make it's 3 pointers and we don't turn it over a lot we probably win. We usually hold our own in shooting percentage and rebounds. Losing their 2nd best scorer was harder for De Paul to overcome as they are not that deep in talent.
We still get beat by a top 10 team unless we get most of Liv, Caroline and Paige back.
