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Message: [QUOTE="tchalla1, post: 4145966, member: 9866"] I agree with you but the refs did not lose that game for Stanford--Tara did--like Geno, she is embedded into doing the same thing the same way she's always done it, and without doing any reaction strategy. Example, she takes Brink out and she's just eating Boston alive, has completely snuffed her, but what does Tara do? She takes Brink out with the two fouls. When will traditional coaches understand the the points you score in the second quarter--or the ones that don't score in the second quarter--count just as much as the ones you score in the 4th quarter! Perhaps they count even more in the second quarter because with a couple more baskets and the Sanford lead would have been by 24 points or more and this would have broken SC. But no, let's take Brink out--which makes no sense because even if she were to foul out, Stanford has plenty of depth in its front court. But let's take Brink out and allow Boston to recharge and regain her confidence. Then Tara takes both Jones and Wilson out and since there's no one to bring the ball up court, they have Hull and all getting their pockets picked repeatedly by a much smaller and quicker player--Henderson--who is much adept to imitating steals and so Stanford commences to turn the ball over about 7 or 8 times in 3Q due to guard play and then Henderson and SC score a quick 14 points. How stupid--why?, because we must stay with our regular substitution patterns... Forget the managing to the course of the game, which BTW, Dawn does a great job of. I can't get on Tara too much because Geno pretty much does the same thing--and he fails to realize this small but evident fact: Before, when you had Stewie, Tuck, KML, Hartley, Dolson, et al, yes you didn't have to react so much to what the other team is doing and change philosophies during the game because your talent level can win you games of and by itself. Having five AA's helps an awful lot. But now with the equity and party in the WBB, can you still afford to coach this way? Programmed coaching? [/QUOTE]

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