Uarizona v SC
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nwhoopfan
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If Pili is still out, I give USC almost no chance in this one.
Arizona hasn't looked great so far, but I think they actually have better ingredients than last year's team and it's just a matter of them having some time to gel. I think eventually they will start to live up to the high expectations for them.
Arizona hasn't looked great so far, but I think they actually have better ingredients than last year's team and it's just a matter of them having some time to gel. I think eventually they will start to live up to the high expectations for them.
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27-25 USC. Arizona looks like much less than the sum of the parts. Yeaney in particular seems to be having trouble fitting in so far. She's active on defense, but on offense she just doesn't seem to know where to be or what to do.
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Have to agree. I still think they have the potential, but they are not even close to being there currently.
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Totally expected. No experience being a favorite. Only the one OOC game against NAU, not the quality of a PAC team and after that game Adia said if we played the way we did we would lose to almost any PAC team.
l am not getting to see these games, but I expected us to struggle. Not because we actually lost so many players, but because we are depending on a different support cast to Reese and McDonald.
Coach Barnes have so many excellent pieces. I think the challenge of trying to coach and play basketball during a pandemic really is reflected on the lack of progress with the cats.
I suspect you could watch the cats play on live stream. I've been very pleased to be able to watch both NAU and ASU. The Big Sky live streams all conference games and the home team for non-conference games can decide whether or not to live stream. ASU also has a live stream option so I'd be surprised if you Uarizona doesn't.
The Cats really are loaded. I think part of it is adjusting to different playing styles particularly with the number of transfers they've brought in.
Also the level of expectations may be pressuring the players in the program. McDonald is a projected top five WNBA pick and Reese and Thomas showed strong potential last year.
I'm really looking forward to their play against the top tier teams. One reason for hope if you're a Cat's fan was their gutty performance against UCLA Although ASU revealed UCLA's weaknesses yesterday.
I suspect you could watch the cats play on live stream. I've been very pleased to be able to watch both NAU and ASU. The Big Sky live streams all conference games and the home team for non-conference games can decide whether or not to live stream. ASU also has a live stream option so I'd be surprised if you Uarizona doesn't.
The Cats really are loaded. I think part of it is adjusting to different playing styles particularly with the number of transfers they've brought in.
Also the level of expectations may be pressuring the players in the program. McDonald is a projected top five WNBA pick and Reese and Thomas showed strong potential last year.
I'm really looking forward to their play against the top tier teams. One reason for hope if you're a Cat's fan was their gutty performance against UCLA Although ASU revealed UCLA's weaknesses yesterday.
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Pretty much agree with everything.
Some games are live-streamed but so far as I know if the game is "controlled" by the PAC 12 network, then it is not (or rather, you have to have the network to get it online). I "think" some services bypass that (we used to have Roku and were able to watch a football game that was on the PAC network) but we currently have nothing like that. Basically, because we have the TV on most of the time.
Just to be clear, we are rarely watching the regular stations, but we watch a lot of sports (I can tape 9 feeds at once and we have NFL Sunday Ticket), a lot of HGTV and some Food Network. 60 Minutes and some other news specials from time to time. Bill Maher, John Oliver and Colbert's Late Show for some humor. So there isn't a lot of time to stream a game that happens when it happens.
Lol. I had to smile when you said very little time to stream a game. Since I've been retired I can't believe how busy I am. Can't hardly find time to watch women's basketball.
Thursday afternoon I bet we both are watching the big Uarizona ASU game. Based on our relative performances against the SoCal schools it may be a game that's closer than really should be.
Iris Mbulito went down with a shoulder injury so she may not play Thursday.
The path to victory for the Sun Devils is very narrow. It would require the Cats to get in foul trouble early, the pace to be extremely slow, Eboni Walker to play the game of her life, the Devils hitting 10 threes and keeping turnovers under 10, and Aari to sprain both ankles during pre-game warm-ups. Since the likelihood of all these happening simultaneously Thursday is close to zero I'm expecting the Cats to win their fourth straight against ASU.
Barnes has done a remarkable job in Tucson.