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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4276451, member: 37"] These two quotes are, imo, the analysis that summarizes this game and why SC was the superior team. [USER=115]@EasyEd[/USER] explains how SC's bigs helped their guards get open to make uncontested threes or allowed them to have an easier time to drive to the basket. @TeamFirst explains how their bigs prevented our guards from performing well because they allowed their guards to over press the perimeter plus the bigs successfully hedged when we tried to set picks. They negated UConn's perimeter game. Add the illness to Fudd, the game injury to Evina, the groin injury that ONO played with and the absence of Dorka I was amazed that we kept this game as close as we did. I would add that Paige expended a lot of energy that first period. I feel that she still isn't completely back to game shape so add that to the equation of loss differential. It was against teams like SC, Stanford and to a lesser extent UCF that Griffen's absence was missed. My only two quibbles were with Geno keeping Azzi in the first period as long as he did. She was clearly struggling and a big liability on defense. And I have to question Gabriel's development/absence. I was hoping he would put in Amari and or Piath because this game necessitated one or both get minutes. [/QUOTE]