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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 4276670, member: 10435"] I'm sorry to belabor this thread but I just had to weigh in on this. There weren't any coaching fixes, player fixes or offense or defense fixes that would have changed last night. We were tired, spent, worn down or whatever words you want to use. It was our 3rd intense game in 6 days, and this one on 1 days rest in a non-restive environment known as the Final Four. SC had an extra days rest, had two easier preceding games including a cakewalk in the Elite 8, had bigger bodies in bigger numbers and when you are tired and smaller, better rested bigs usually have their way. We also did not have Dorka who gives you a completely different inside-outside game and bulk underneath and has more basketball skills than either Liv or Aaliyah. I think it is unbelievable that we even got to the NC game. We kept the most incredible, never to be broken, streak alive with a gut wrenching Elite 8 game. Think of the injuries, the sicknesses, the lineup changes, the unthinkable losses, and then the final crushing injury to Dorka. I mean, really? You could see in the beginning of the game how it was going to be called by the refs, which was sickening in and of itself and I thought unfairly deferential to Boston and completely inappropriate for a showcase for women's basketball. 3 fouls in 6 games for Boston in the entire NCAAs? I counted that many fouls on her last night. It just wasn't happening. We had gone as far as we could with surgeries ( 3 including Aubrey and Dorka ), stitches, plates, screws, antibiotics, neurological exams, bedrest, braces and crutches. We needed our A game and a fairly called 40 minutes last night. We had neither. Our ladies did great this year. As bad as they feel today, they will realize soon that they proved they could overcome adversity working together with grit and focus. They don't give a trophy for that but if they did is there any doubt which team would be the recipient? . [/QUOTE]

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