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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 2475191, member: 1220"] Miss state is for real. However teams are never as good as their best game or as bad as their worst. Match ups are also important. McCowan is a really good player but she does have her weaknesses and those can be exploited by a smart game plan. Most of her damage was done on offensive put backs. Take that away and it is an entirely different game. The Oregon coach did not make the proper adjustments. One of which you mentioned. Putting a tall and quicker player on her defensively to[B] keep her off the Glass.[/B] Graves didn't even try that with his tall quicker 6'6" post, probably because he overvalues offense and didn't want to give up the tradeoff. Other wise players like McGowan and Baylors Brown will just eat shorter players alive underneath. Especially when they can not double team because of their teammates hitting from the outside. I was thinking the same thing about Uconn's Stephens. One other weakness McCowan has is she is really slow and if you can speed up the game you take her out of the equation. Oregon did not have the team speed to do that. Uconn will match up better with Mss st. Better this year precisely because of Stephens. [/QUOTE]