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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 3424047, member: 10435"] I have a few observations and will try not to be repetitious. When you are so physically outmatched like last night, a few things have to happen in order to win. First, if the drives are taken away and the body contact fouls are not called, which they weren't, the outside shooting has to be better than usual, not far worse and the turnovers have to be minimal. Secondly, I am a big Meg fan but it may be that the pressure of the biggest games on her as the leading scorer makes her uncomfortable or less confident at this stage of her career especially against older, more experienced, and bigger players. She made huge strides from last year but playing big in big games is the hardest part of the development. I am sure we will see it in her, if not this year, than next year. Thirdly, CW has been off her game for a while and was probably ill or run down for a while also, not just recently. Fourth, I don't think there are simple fixes to this team right now. It is a smaller, younger, not as physical team, that is not deep, that we all hope gets really determined and focused by what happened last night and responds with a very strong outing against SC. However, that remains to be seen. It is now two college games against bigger, elite teams this year, both at home or semi-home that we lost convincingly, so you cannot assume they were aberrations. In a real sense, there haven't been any won-lost surprises this year thus far. We just have to be realistic, but also maintain a modicum of optimism. Their youth is actually a reason for it because these kinds of losses can promote growth and improvement. Plus, we have Geno and they don't! [/QUOTE]

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