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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4535882, member: 12088"] To [USER=6872]@visitingcock[/USER] and [USER=11559]@The deacon[/USER] , Stanford has athletes, but not as many game-ready ones as SC. Tara can bring in Betts and Prechdel if/when Brink and Iriafen get in foul trouble. But neither of them can really run with Cardoso, and Boston is not as foul prone as Brink. Jump and Demetre are good perimeter shooters, but I think Beal & Co can manage them easily. The X factor is Jones, of course, and she’s capable of changing a game just through force of will. But she’s also capable of blowing a game, especially if the opponent has someone with the physical skills to run with her, and there’s a few of those on SC. I think SC’s starting 5 is better. If it came down to it, who would I favor, SC’s bench or Stanford’s? I don’t think this is really in doubt. And I don’t think that early nail biter is representative of what SC is now. This is just my sense of things. It doesn’t mean it won’t be a great game — I never said that. And strange things can happen in the final four. The oddity is that in most matchups I ask myself if another team’s backcourt can outscore SC’s frontcourt. With Stanford, it’s tempting to think their frontcourt is really competitive with SC’s. I think this is an illusion. [/QUOTE]