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Monday 11/4

What happened to Rayah Marshall? I thought she was going to be a star. Scoreless today, only took 1 shot. von Oelhoffen didn't score until a pair of FTs very late in the game. USC needs more balance than that. It was pretty much Juju, Iriafen and Kennedy Smith scoring.

26 TOs is a major red flag. Of course some of that is a credit to Ole Miss' defense, but plenty of it was just sloppy ball handling and really poor passing. Juju had 9 of those, and only 4 assists.

KK Deans hit a bunch of big shots. Juju took over in Q2, but other than that she really wasn't much of a shot maker, her scoring is dependent on drawing fouls.
 
Drake was in some trouble early but a big 2nd half carried them to the win against North Dakota St. 22 pts/13 reb for Anna Miller and 19 pts/6 assists for Katie Dinnebier.
 
nwhoopfan said:
So...why are these games in Paris? Lower bowl is mostly full, but the upper bowl the lights are out and nobody is home. Gotta think they could've drawn a much, much better crowd if this was in Vegas or somewhere else in the U.S.


Angel McCoughtry is in the house.
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Paris is an event that teams will go for. Probably can do an alumni tie-in who want to travel, like they’ve started to do with CFB. Also could grow the game a bit by exposing it elsewhere.

A nonconference game in Vegas (or elsewhere) to start the season isn’t as appealing.
 
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Juju did have a nice stat line w/ 27 pts/10 reb/4 assists/3 steals/5 blocks. It was the blocks that really stood out to me.
 
Vanderbilt wins by 52 (congrats!), but Leilani Kapinus didn't play. What's tea? Is she injured or?
 
It's early, but man--I'm not impressed with Southern Cal. The talent is clearly there, so hopefully they'll gel as the season progresses.
 
Seemed like two tough tournament teams but the offense seemed a concern for both.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
So...why are these games in Paris? Lower bowl is mostly full, but the upper bowl the lights are out and nobody is home. Gotta think they could've drawn a much, much better crowd if this was in Vegas or somewhere else in the U.S.


Angel McCoughtry is in the house.
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The politically correct answer is "to help grow the sport globally". Not sure how many men's games are being played in Europe this season; but if there aren't any, then the women's game isn't gonna be the trend setter, IMO.
 
UCLA bringing Gardiner and Barker in off the bench...not many teams have a pair of starting front court players that good. Unfortunately w/ Rice and Leger-Walker out, the back court is where they need help.

Another sloppy, grind it out game here in Paris.
 
southie said:
The politically correct answer is "to help grow the sport globally". Not sure how many men's games are being played in Europe this season; but if there aren't any, then the women's game isn't gonna be the trend setter, IMO.
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Yeah, I'm not really sure what the end game is. How much do people watch American sports in Europe? I know the NFL and NBA have some games internationally, but I have no idea what the actual pay off is for doing this.
 
nwhoopfan said:
UCLA bringing Gardiner and Barker in off the bench...not many teams have a pair of starting front court players that good. Unfortunately w/ Rice and Leger-Walker out, the back court is where they need help.

Another sloppy, grind it out game here in Paris.
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Yep. I stated in the summer that UCLA has the deepest and most talented front court in the country. Gardiner was a steal from the portal and can help stretch the opponent's defender all the way to the 3 point line.

Dugalic will see her minutes dissipate if Gardiner keeps playing like this.
 
Not very pretty, but UCLA will get the win. Betts tallied 5 assists, most of those were on kick outs to Gardiner for 3's. Timea was 5-7 behind the arc, the rest of the team was 3-16.
 
66-59 final. Betts w/ 18 pts/13 reb/5 assists/4 blocks.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
So...why are these games in Paris? Lower bowl is mostly full, but the upper bowl the lights are out and nobody is home. Gotta think they could've drawn a much, much better crowd if this was in Vegas or somewhere else in the U.S.


Angel McCoughtry is in the house.
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Yeah not going to lie, coincidentally I'm actually in Paris right now, and even I couldn't be bothered to go see this. Not sure who the natural audience is here.
 
southie said:
Yep. I stated in the summer that UCLA has the deepest and most talented front court in the country. Gardiner was a steal from the portal and can help stretch the opponent's defender all the way to the 3 point line.

Dugalic will see her minutes dissipate if Gardiner keeps playing like this.
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Dugalic is not a bad player, but I don’t understand starting both Gardiner and Barker off in the bench. I’ll be especially curious if cori does that against the two uscs.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Yeah, I'm not really sure what the end game is. How much do people watch American sports in Europe? I know the NFL and NBA have some games internationally, but I have no idea what the actual pay off is for doing this.
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The answer is a lot more than what people may expect, especially when you consider the NFL has expanded into Germany with their games. As to the NCAAW market, that's an unknown but who knows if it's given enough time. We're talking year two of the experiment and we were spoiled with ND vs South Carolina last season. Only time will tell.
 
The French have their own professional league that has done fairly well with Bourges historically challenging for the top four in the Euroleague Women, and Villeneuve-d'Ascq making a run to the finals last year. The French Women's National Team is also always a perennial challenger on the international level. I'd agree with the others that this is more of a fun lark for the teams involved and it seems to generate interest to have some top teams playing this early in the season. I wonder if there's local organizers involved who are trying to use this novelty as a springboard into driving interest in the French league when it starts back up.

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nwhoopfan said:
So...why are these games in Paris? Lower bowl is mostly full, but the upper bowl the lights are out and nobody is home. Gotta think they could've drawn a much, much better crowd if this was in Vegas or somewhere else in the U.S.


Angel McCoughtry is in the house.
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It's a destination event for fans and the team. It also draws a lot of eyes. The crowd is irrelevant much like the small arenas in the Bahamas that teams crave to play in.
 
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This calls for a spicy lamb meatball gyro and dessert to celebrate
 
Well, must be time for a massive over reaction statement after just 1 game! I really can't see either UCLA or USC winning a Championship. I just don't think they have coaches that can get it done. I've sort of defended Close at times, but yeah, she doesn't have the chops. Neither does Gottlieb. Both teams have plenty of talent, but so will the other teams when you get to the last weekend of the season.
 
triaddukefan said:
This calls for a spicy lamb meatball gyro and dessert to celebrate
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Some of the games looked a little rough, but you are already in mid season form!
 
WBBTakeover said:
It's early, but man--I'm not impressed with Southern Cal. The talent is clearly there, so hopefully they'll gel as the season progresses.
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They have 9 new players and only 2 returnees that will likely play big minutes. A lot to integrate.
 
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Stagnant said:
Ole Miss and USC is the most interesting of the three imo. With the worst time slot of course.
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TIL people are either MUCH higher on Southern Cal than I realized or haven’t paid attention to Ole Miss.

I expected a game that could go either way in the final 4 minutes, but a lot of coverage is acting like someone took the 92 Dream Team to the wire.

Southern Cal added three new starters to a team that was leas than the sum of its parts every 3rd game last season. This felt about right.
 
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