How to beat Washington...make your free throws.

[todbo]

Nothing to add.

Ionescu, Oregon oust Washington in Pac-12 quarterfinals

 

[nwhoopfan]

Or you could saying hitting twice as many 3's as you average per game and having the Huskies hit half as many as they usually do is a way to beat them, but the odds of that are relatively slim. It just happened to occur last night.

 

[1-of-the-6]

Or you could saying hitting twice as many 3's as you average per game and having the Huskies hit half as many as they usually do is a way to beat them, but the odds of that are relatively slim. It just happened to occur last night.

It was that and more. Once again the supposed role players did nothing.

After watching Natalie Romeo for two years at Nebraska, I'm having a really hard time understanding how she's playing this season. She shot three, maybe four, airballs last night. Unfathomable. And down the stretch, she just couldn't stay with her man. Collier passed up shot after shot when she was wide open from 12-15 feet. Johnson's play just gets worse and worse. Oregon was able to double, or even triple team both Osahor and Plum and hardly had to pay for it.

I think the surprise here is that this hasn't happened before.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Earlier in the year the role players were producing, with the notable exception of the Stanford game. Been a bad trend lately. Collier absolutely can stick that 12-15 ft. jumper. She and several other players appear to be scared to take shots in recent games. Huskies need a few other players than Plum and Osahor to step up.

I've been hearing talk about how great of a defender Romeo is a good chunk of the season. Her primary assignment last night was Bando and Lexi absolutely killed UW. Ionescu, Cazorla and Hebard were all good for the Ducks, but Bando was by far their best player last night.

 

[1-of-the-6]

Washington also seemed to get away from the idea of Osahor being the primary high-pick setter, instead keeping her down low or around the foul line. Collier and Johnson are not nearly as good in shaking Plum loose up top. Nor can they find her quickly if she makes a backdoor cut. However, neither one is any good in the low post either. Johnson is afraid to shoot even from point-blank range, instead usually choosing to try to reset the offense. It's disappointing, because it seems as if the team has gone backwards of late.

And, when Plum and Osahor are gone, Washington is in big trouble. They're going to plummet out of the top 50 and find themselves at or near the bottom of the Pac-12.