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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 2912237, member: 6034"] I was really surprised as well, but I haven't heard anything from the coaches. Graves has said that Boley is as good a shooter as Lexi Bando was, and he has been very enthusiastic about the various options she provides given her size. She won the 3-point shooting contest (vs. Ionescu and the best 3 point shooter on the men's team) in Oregon's version of First Night, at one point hitting (if I remember correctly) about 8 in a row, and she couldn't miss during the warm up for Saturday's game. To me, most of the shots she took were good ones--and uncontested as well--as were, as far as I could see, almost all of the 3 point shots Oregon took, since Syracuse really packed in their zone around Hebard. They just didn't fall. It's also my sense that Graves has decided to let the team play its way in and out of trouble--at least to some extent--probably as a way of toughening them up mentally. That certainly seemed to be what he was saying about the last 2 minutes, when he chose not to call a timeout when Syracuse went up by 6 and looked like it would run away with things. (I certainly thought the game was lost at that point.). As Lotrader has said, I think he's looking long term at this point and that likely means letting Boley find her way. [/QUOTE]