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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4817686, member: 12088"] You’re right. KK was matched up on Kelly at least as much as Nika. The only way to save my misstatement is to say that Nika contributed to some of those turnovers. She had one statement steal at half court, but most of Kelly’s turnovers were bad passes or losing the ball out of bounds. So Nika may have contributed to those by generally ratcheting up the pressure. But KK was mostly the one on her when they occurred. I also made another misstatement (along with a few other folks) that the missed charge call was Kelly stiff arming Nika. It was actually KK who suffered that injustice. Kelly got away this a couple of times. And rewatching the replay, it occurred to me that there was a bit of frustration in Kelly’s face on both of them. I don’t need to remind you how much I dislike players who hunt foul calls. Kelly is the worst in D1 for this, and that she’s still doing it as a senior speaks volumes about her. I wonder if she thinks this will work in the W. At least Caitlin and Latson outgrew this tactic after their freshman seasons. But here we have Kelly trying to beat up on a freshman who’s defending her too well. That’s not the height of sportsmanship in my book. Kelly is a great talent whose game is marred by this cheesy behavior. Edited to add: didn’t Nika have a statement block on one of Kelly’s layup attempts? I’ll have to rewatch the replay yet again to check it. [/QUOTE]