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Stanford Postgame Thread

Will this game be re-broadcast? I lost cable/power at the beginning of the third quarter, some idiot took out a pole in a neighboring town :mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
mbr33ct said:
You seem to have answered your own question, IMO it was a risky pass to begin with, the Stanford players especially the player going into the paint area made Evina throw the pass further under the basket and frankly I don't know if it would have been an uncontested layup. With 30 seconds left and UConn with 27 seconds on clock, the best Evina could have done there was to just pull it back or keep dribbling under the basket and back out until they foul her. Regardless it worked out in the end.View attachment 75183
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Not any Stanford player, but a 6'5" Prechtel racing into the paint. It was a situation reminiscent of the lay-up in the last game, but with much more time on the clock and a 4 point lead. Much better to pull back and take the seconds off the clock than make that pass. A simple pass back to Paige after she crossed half court with all the Stanford players running to the paint would have been better and eventually led to free throws and Stanford once 'organized would have had to foul.
 
UcMiami said:
Good point - Uconn fans seem to see disrespect around every corner and let nothing go. in 1996 there was tension between Geno and Tara, but it was really about outside factors - Tara was annoyed with USA basketball for saddling her USA senior team with Lobo fresh out of college and didn't play her, and Geno was annoyed for Lobo not getting minutes over the older centers/forwards. Geno and Tara buried that dispute decades ago, but fans have long memories.

I get tired of the: losing coach didn't praise Uconn enough, didn't chat in the handshake line, forgot to mention ______ Uconn player, didn't smaile enough, etc.

This Uconn video shows a very cordial greeting between the two coaches at the start of the game - after the game and in the interviews is mostly about your own team.
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Couldn’t agree more. The crap these people manufacture out of comments made after a high level competition are just ridiculous. There wasn’t anything in VanDerver’s comments that was remotely disrespectful to UConn at all. They just twist them for their own purposes. These coaches are competitors after a tough game, not fanboys sitting in their dens.
 
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Redux said:
My TV malfunctions as well; an old Samsung plasma I otherwise love. Shows UConn committing fouls and missing open shots all the time. I've fiddled with the settings and just can't get it right.
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Replay of Bird/Taurasi commentating on ESPNU Sunday 1:30 PM. Otherwise it may get posted on the board.
 
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HopJim said:
In the many years of watching them coach, never heard one say a negative word about the other.
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jaundicedeye said:
You do know that Stanford is saying the same thing about their own play right now?
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yeah but they are wrong...:) just kidding. what i mean is the last 2 -3 minutes, we made some serious bonehead errors that cost us a ten point win. out of bounds fiasco, poor passing and inability to do anything against the press, just to name a few. two of these are unforced and the third was just silly but ok, the length of stanford had something to do with it as well. i think i am forgetting one, but somebody will remind me.
 
Oldbones said:
Surprised about the cold, no-look postgame handshake between Geno and Tara, after 35-plus years of being at the top of NCAA WBB coaching. Any thoughts?
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Their pregame sideline handshake was much more cordial even with smiling. I think after the game it was more like Stanford wanted to leave asap and let the Huskies have their well deserved spotlight.
 
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hookshot said:
She uncharacteristically made one early in this game from top of circle, and that fooled her into thinking that she could continue to shoot from there
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Wow, hookshot! That is quite a gift you've been given. I wonder why no one else picked up on that one?
 
Centerstream said:
Their pregame sideline handshake was much more cordial even with smiling. I think after the game it was more like Stanford wanted to leave asap and let the Huskies have their well deserved spotlight.
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Agree. Without the pre-game cordiality it could have been mistaken for something else.
 
TeamFirst! said:
Personally, I think Stanford didn’t get a lot of open looks from 3. I also think Haley is a great player but if you look at her numbers this year she shot something like 27% from 3 so it’s no surprise she was 0-5 from 3 tonight. She really should not have been selected as an all American this year. We outrebounded them with maybe our best rebounder hurt. They were beatable. Our defense reduced their scoring output. If you guard Lexi Hull closely she cannot convert 3 pointers like she does when she’s wide open. They seemed to score almost at will in the paint but Brink does miss jump shots sometimes. Stanford was successful shutting down Azzi and to a degree Paige but our depth, hustle and defensive strength were enough to win.
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I nearly always agree with your points, TeamFirst, but I'm a big advocate of Haley Jones, in general and that she definitely deserved All-American recognition. She is one of those players for whom the numbers sometimes don't measure up to her contributions. Last night, during a game in which her teammates all struggled, Haley had 20 and 11 against a defensively superb UConn team.

And if you remember, while agreeing Haley is not an especially good three-point shooter, at least three of those five misses were rather hurriedly hoisted up in the final minutes when Stanford absolutely had to fire up threes.

If I had my druthers (and I know I don't... LOL), Haley would join Paige, Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark among the first five players I'd have on my team. The fifth? Maybe NaLyssa Smith?
 
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jaydee602 said:
For every UCONN fan upset because we should have won by a larger margin without the turnovers, there is a Stanford fan lamenting all of those missed open shots. That team is lethal from outside, but they missed 43 shots and were 4 for 23 from 3 point range.
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Beemer said:
That is one amazing statistic.
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Nika at 5'10 & playing 18 minutes; Brink at 6'4 & played 27 minutes! WoW!!!!
 
HopJim said:
Will Dee ref the championship game? Please tell me "no."
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She is a nightmare in a big game. Considering the quality of the refereeing last night in our game, that is saying a lot. She and her fellow womens' refs have transformed this game into a mens' wannabe. No body fouls, no fouls for restriction of movement on cuts, no fouls for over the backs which are really pushes, but every screen is a moving one, every touch foul has to get called even if inconsequential in the backcourt or forecourt, and every walk gets called off of a received pass but no shuffle of the feet under the basket by a big is ever called. The NCAA controls the referees and the referees control the game. It's the continuation of a painfully slow deterioration of the sport despite everything these great players and coaches try to do. The amount of contact they now allow in the women's game is just startling and someday, after a bad injury to a player because of the excessive contact being regularly allowed, that player is going to try to get satisfaction in the only place the NCAA pays attention to, in a legal forum.
 
eebmg said:
You have a TV that yells? Pretty cool.
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We are going to set-up a new tv today to replace one that’s at least ten years old. I eagerly await reading about the yelling feature!

Better yet, maybe I can get a feed from the set to the UConn bench so it can give suggestions to Chris D as it surveys the full court! .
 
Stinger92860 said:
For Sunday, we need to clean up the offensive fouls 25 feet out and the reach in’s. Unfortunately, it’s muscle memory at this point
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Actually, Stinger, it is not muscle memory. They are just bad habits. Muscle memory is neuromuscular and pertains to the engraining of motor movements through repetition.
 
The good news about Nika is all the talk about her playing time will end in one game. She will be a fixture in the rotation for the next two years.
Waquoit said:
I don't Geno's getting enough love for last night. He managed the minutes great, kept everyone in the game, was one step ahead of Stamford tactically the entire game. And he kept crazy Geno to a minimum, even with the poor whistle we were getting in the 1st half. I liked the exchange early where he just gave the ref the low wave.
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There was a moment in the first half where Stanford was just finding their groove and had hit two wide open, uncontested shots. Geno called a timeout right after the second one and the defensive intensity was up and there to stay. It was perfect timing and whatever he said created a spark. The intensity level rose obviously and drmatically.
 
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