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

[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.