Florida St (17) @ Louisville (5) - 2/06/20

[Shades]

Have to hand it to the Nole women....beating a #5 team on the road...

But...like some teams, the Noles run hot and cold...

They can lose games they shouldn't and win games that they shouldn't....

Just like Louisville. Luckily for FSU, their tap was running hot while Louisville’s was running cold.

 

[billybud]

Just like Louisville. Luckily for FSU, their tap was running hot while Louisville’s was running cold.

The FSU men also went into Louisville and beat the current AP # 5 Cards by 13....

Must be the air in Louisville.

 

[ConnecticutBB]

Just love Jeff's up beat attitude during the press conference...never did he throw his team under the bus nor did he speak badly toward Florida State..one classy guy.

 

[donalddoowop]

I have no idea but let's just say she's not breaking any records with her work ethic. She loves to jog slowly.

But she plays well. Sometimes the final result should be looked at, the reality and not the ideals. Maybe she had some traits Geno did not like but that did not stop her from becoming the player she has been this season. UConn could have used a player of her caliber this season.

 

[billybud]

Didn't see the Louisville-Oregon game....but I saw that the Cards outscored the Ducks in 3 of the 4 periods....

It was early...so I suppose that Oregon has gotten better with play.

 

[Shades]

Didn't see the Louisville-Oregon game....but I saw that the Cards outscored the Ducks in 3 of the 4 periods....

It was early...so I suppose that Oregon has gotten better with play.

What may be a factor, it was a holiday tournament played at the Virgin Islands in the equivalent of a high school gym. Stuff like that may throw the better team off. I believe SC also got knocked off at a holiday tournament.

Louisville 72-62 Oregon (Nov 30, 2019) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Louisville Cardinals vs. Oregon Ducks NCAAW game, final score 72-62, from November 30, 2019 on ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[billybud]

Soooo...it is the unfamiliar gym that loses games...not the early play?

And the gym affects Oregon more than Louisville?

 

[Gamecockfan77]

why does an odd gym throw the better team off?

 

[billybud]

Maybe....Oregon's three pointers were off...but that could be that the Oregon shooters were being defended...

Oregon hit a higher percentage of free throws on that court than at UConn...did not affect that shot.

My thought is that Oregon's coordination of offense improved with play....as players got a feeling about how their team mates played...Minyon was an experienced guard...but was playing one of her first games with the Duck's team. Her stats, however, do not look any different than at UConn.

 

[Floridaduck]

I watched the Louisville-Oregon game on FloHoops. My general thinking is that after four days of fun in the sun the Ducks just weren’t in the mood to grind it out. I think they felt going all “flash and dash” would do the job and thus the 35 (35!) 3 point shots. Atypical for a Graves team. 6-35 from the 3 line is worse than just bad...
So glad for both those losses (Louisville and ASU) in the end.
Certainly focuses the mind. Not sure they would be playing as well now without those wake up calls. "The biggest lesson we took from that game (ASU) was definitely being aggressive, and that we were constantly the hunted one," Sabally said. "And that we're a beatable team; we're not unbeatable. We have to give our all and cannot be satisfied with people just talking about us."

 

[billybud]

I think coaching also had something to do with Louisville's win...

So with each team playing for the third time in as many days during the holiday tournament, Louisville came up with a defensive look that Oregon couldn't have anticipated and that few opponents likely have the personnel to replicate. For long stretches of the game, 6-foot-4 senior post player Kylee Shook operated at the top of Louisville's defense, using her long reach to disrupt Oregon's Minyon Moore specifically, while Dana Evans, Jazmine Jones and others worked on Sabrina Ionescu.

“They wanted it more than us, basically, and they played like it,” Oregon coach Kelly Graves said. “They were more intense and physical, and we got out of the way we want to play or normally play. We got very 1-on-1-minded, and we’re just not built that way. We were completely out of sync, and credit them for doing a good job of getting us out of sync.”

 

[willtalk]

Basically Oregon brought their D game ( with a lot of help from the Cards ). Louisville is not the type of team you want to take lightly. If you do they will make you pay. Attempting 35 three's- come on now. And making only 6???.

 

[billybud]

Louisville unnerved them with the defensive scheme...without the guards feeding inside or slashing with kick outs...a lack of offensive coordination.....the Ducks were playing one on one and that often left contested outside shooting of 3s.

I give Louisville credit....credit for throwing up a very disruptive defensive scheme that Kelly Graves said got them "out of sync".

I do understand that saying that Oregon brought their D game is a way of downplaying a hated entity's upset win.

Oregon brought their game...the Cards took them out of it.