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Message: [QUOTE="Papa33, post: 3936074, member: 682"] Many Boneyard posts after our loss ot Arizona on Friday found many villains and scapegoats for our failure to run Arizona off the court: Geno's poor prep for Arizona's unique challenges, and his offensive and defensive plans; our players failure to match the energy and determination of Arizona; etc. And many of those same couch wizards predicted that Stanford would make quick and easy work of Arizona. Well, I did watch much of tonights game for the Championship and then compared the stats. Stanford won, but with a more seasoned and taller squad scored 5 fewer points against Arizona than UConn did. Did that surprise anyone? But Stanford did lead decisively in turnovers: 21. Uconn had only 12. We outshot Stanford from the arc, 41% to 28.6%. So how to fathom Stanford's "success" and our failure to win? I decided to watch the full replay of our Friday night game. This is what I saw: most obvious was our failure to cash in on our height superiority in the paint, to deliver points when our guards found them open in the lane. Many of the misfires were bunnies, non-pressured misses: AE– 3 for 7: one blocked, another nullified by travel Ono– 0 for 7, including two air balls Other point blank misses or failure to get shot off or draw a foul when open at the basket: CW– travel call negates basket; 1' jumper miss; lay-up miss; lay-up miss; wide-open lay-up miss PB- missed 3' floater EW– missed bunny NM– dribbled too far under hoop Total= at least 18 misses of gimmies or near gimmies. If we made good of only 50% of those obvious scoring opportunities, we score 18 points and beat Arizona 77-69. Our offense, so maligned by new posters after the Arizona loss, gave us ample opportunities to outscore Arizona. As many of you have noted (including Geno) we need to become more efficient scorers in the lane; perhaps hire Napheesa Collier to teach control, footwork, shooting touch, etc. (That's half joking.) [/QUOTE]

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