Pac 12 games 2/2/18

[nwhoopfan]

34-28 OSU, timeout Tara! Pivec has scored 5 quick points this half.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Rebounding was close to even in the first half, but Stanford is pounding the O boards this quarter. Good thing, because they can't shoot. Now OSU going cold after a good start to the quarter. 34-32 OSU.

 

[nwhoopfan]

9-0 run for Stanford, back in front.

 

[nwhoopfan]

39-36 Stanford. OSU can't buy a 3 point bucket. 4-17, 0-4 this quarter. Corosdale is 0-5, most haven't even been close.

 

[nwhoopfan]

43-36 Stanford. OSU forgot how to rebound apparently.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Stanford is on a 17-2 run. McPhee has scored 6 quick points. Timeout OSU. 45-36. Wow this one is getting away in a hurry.

 

[nwhoopfan]

47-40 after 3Q. OSU is usually a good rebounding team, but Stanford got one O board after another in the quarter and whole bunch of 2nd chance points. That's what turned the game around.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Tudor is invisible. Still scoreless, didn't even get a shot attempt in the quarter. I'm not quite sure how Stanford has been able to blanket her, while still double and even occasionally triple teaming Gulich at all times. Maybe they have 7 or 8 players on the floor?

 

[HuskyFan1125]

To my eye Stanford is doing a couple things. 1. O boards. 2. Pressuring Pivec. I love her game but she isn’t a PG. Oregon State isn’t helping by missing 3’s. Has Corosdale hit any??

 

[Frodo]

I’ve tried to watch PAC12 basketball...I really have! But I can’t do it for anything more than small doses. The conference seems to be afflicted with a stunning lack of ability to score...and it’s not like the conference has a great reputation for tough defense. Outside of Oregon and occasionally UCLA or Oregon State most the conference struggles to put up points. The Stanford/OSU game may not get out of the 50’ or low 60’s. Worse yet, the lack of rhythm and fluidity to the offenses causes surprise when they do score.

 

[nwhoopfan]

OSU is incapable of grabbing a D board. Unbelievable.

 

[nwhoopfan]

To my eye Stanford is doing a couple things. 1. O boards. 2. Pressuring Pivec. I love her game but she isn’t a PG. Oregon State isn’t helping by missing 3’s. Has Corosdale hit any??

Corosdale has been brutal tonight. Pivec is practically the only Beav to score in the second half.

 

[nwhoopfan]

and it’s not like the conference has a great reputation for tough defense.

OSU, Stanford and Arizona St. have been playing stingy defense for years.

 

[nwhoopfan]

OSU finally got a little momentum, then give up yet another O board and 2nd chance point. That is just killing them in the 2nd half. 54-47, 4:50 left.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Kalmer w/ a nice boost w/ 12 off the bench. Doesn't make up for Tudor and Corosdale doing nothing and Gulich having a way below average game. Can't have 3 out of 5 starters play badly and expect to win.

 

[Frodo]

OSU, Stanford and Arizona St. have been playing stingy defense for years.

Arizona State, yes. OSU only the last couple of years, Stanford hasn’t had really good defensive teams in awhile, but the conference as a whole is not strong defensively.

 

[nwhoopfan]

56-51 2:50 left, McPhee going to the line.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Arizona State, yes. OSU only the last couple of years, Stanford hasn’t had really good defensive teams in awhile, but the conference as a whole is not strong defensively.

OSU has won the conference 3 years in a row, largely because of their defense. Including this year that's 4 years of good D.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Was 57-54, but Stanford got 2 O boards on 1 possession, finally got a hoop. I cannot ever remember seeing a Rueck team rebound so poorly.

 

[Frodo]

OSU has won the conference 3 years in a row, largely because of their defense. Including this year that's 4 years of good D.

Isn’t that what I said?

 

[nwhoopfan]

59-56 52.5 seconds left.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Isn’t that what I said?

You said a couple years. That means two to me.

Also disagree w/ you about Stanford. They've been able to shut the opponent's water off w/ their D for several years now.

 

[nwhoopfan]

59-57 OSU possession, 19.4 seconds left.

 

[Frodo]

You said a couple years. That means two to me.

I don’t think there’s a substantive difference between 3 and the colloquial expression “a couple of”.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Gulich missed a contested layup (terrible game from her). Stanford ball, 14.3 seconds left.