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Message: [QUOTE="Littlemin, post: 3401541, member: 10363"] My take on last nights game was mostly positive. Accepting this team is a work in progress, I saw Makurat assert herself a bit more, a drive or two, at least one pull-up. Williams got good shots but missed; my feeling from afar is, maybe for the first time in her life she just has lost confidence. Shooting her way out is the only solution. I agree with, I think it was Husky Nan, who posted that this team needs to “just play”. Stop thinking and just play, that’s when the team will get gack an even rhythm and stop playing too slow - holding on to the ball too long, or too fast - walking or throwing a pass that is just not there. I saw some fight for lose balls better last night, some players start to get on the floor. I know a somewhat popular mantra is to reiterate how highly these players were ranked, well lofty rankings in high school maybe mean that “dirty work” was not necessarily part of your responsibility at that level, it is now. Against a borderline dirty, certainly very physical team, I thought Ono rebounded well, and more telling, I thought she went and “got” some with determination as opposed to just “height” rebounds. Finally, just terrific defense, especially in the middle two quarters. Ono and Walker need to protect those fouls like gold though, because a cheap one or two and a phantom call or two changed the complexion of that game in the 4th quarter. As for the refereeing, relatively new to the women‘s but frankly, it is just consistently horrible. [/QUOTE]

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