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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4391502, member: 12088"] Not so fast, pardner. I already handled the outlier NC game in my comment: [injury questions, blah blah blah]. We surely don't need to go down that rabbit hole again, do we? And as for your second suggestion, if I weren't such a hometown fan, I could credibly say, "[B]Stymied? Pfffft.[/B]" Watch some tape. That's a bit like the little boy who comes home and says, "Mommy, guess what? Me and daddy killed the bear." Yes, on a day when we had next to zero frontline depth, Azzi with the flu and an injured Caroline had trouble getting open. And it wasn't your returning freshmen who even did that -- it was mainly Brea Beal and Zia Cooke. But two years ago, Beal had the unfortunate assignment of defending Paige, and got torched. If you think Azzi won't be able to do the same, you have a very short memory. Or maybe you think Zia can cover her, lol. Or Amihere? Hahahaha! I'm confident the rematch will look a lot different in the back court. I think it's an open question what will happen in the front court. And just to be clear, in that game two years ago, SC probably should have won. It came down to a muffed put-back by Boston, and several key turnovers by Henderson. I mean Paige single-handedly outplayed the entire SC squad, but that's a lot of talent to overcome, and Olivia and Aaliyah were not really a match for Boston. It's a different Aaliyah this year. I also think SC probably should have beaten Stanford in that year's Final Four match -- again, another muffed put-back lost a game that was already won. I know Boston took an important lesson from those experiences and Dawn challenged her to improve her stamina, and she became awesome last year. Here's an experiment for you: go to the SC boards and try to make the case I just did and see what sort of reaction you get there. [/QUOTE]

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