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If it wasn't 8:34 I'd go to bed!!! and watch west coast feeds of Dancing etc. Dang nab it! May we not emulate this game tomorrow night.
 
Stanford is letting Duke take this game from them not unlike against A&M last season in the Final Four. The difference being Duke seems to lack the chutzpah to take it.
 
alexrgct said:
Stanford is letting Duke take this game from them not unlike against A&M last season in the Final Four. The difference being Duke seems to lack the chutzpah to take it.
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As long as chutzpah is an acronym for criminey how us team zees practice as horrible...we can't win. Or "can't shoot" for short.

Or can't rebound. Did I mention Tinkle comes from my little state of Montana?
 
HuskyNan said:
Holy Moley, triad, what an exercise in futility - Duke shooting layups.
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I'm not going to lie. I am stunned at how far the gap is between the top teams and everyone else. Stanford has toyed with Duke the entire half. Stanford is so much more physical and tougher it's not even funny.

I hope it continues tomorrow.
 
Nneka is going to join a pretty elite company of ladies who have started in four Final Fours. Diana and Maya are the only UConn players to do this, though Tiff has her shot to join that sorority tomorrow. Who else? Tennessee made four straight Final Fours 2002-05, 1995-98, and 1986-89. Did anyone start on all four teams? Maybe Bridgette Gordon in 1986-89? I do't think there was any holdover in terms of starters between 1995 and 1998 for the LVs or 2002-05, but I could easily be wrong.
 
Yup that's what Duke needed a clear out rush to the hoop! Missed.
 
The top seeds in this tournament look like basketball players. Everyone else so far has looked like girls.
 
Last loss for Stanford was UConn November 21 ...that was a useful commenton ESPN!;) On that note I pack it in. :) Go UConn - sleep well tonight women and may you me ASweet3781's "girls" on the floor tomorrow night!
 
You have to give Duke credit for making it this far with all the injuries they've had. I don't think any other team had to endure that many this season.
If they can stay healthy, they will be a force to be reckoned with for the next few years.
 
hoopfan515 said:
You have to give Duke credit for making it this far with all the injuries they've had. I don't think any other team had to endure that many this season.
If they can stay healthy, they will be a force to be reckoned with for the next few years.
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True. Losing Wells (suspension) and Jackson (ACL) for the year hurt. Henson's injury hurt less, mainly depth in the post, but she was not being counted upon for many minutes going into the year.

Stanford turned Duke into a scorer, rather than a distributor/facilitator who could score. This is what Tennessee did to Alana Beard in the 2003 Final Four and what UConn did to Beard in the 2003 regular season game in Cameron. What changed in 2004, when Duke defeated UConn in Hartford, was that there was another player who could create her own shot - Monique Currie (who missed the 2003 games with an ACL injury).

This is where Alexis Jones will help next year and where Chloe Wells/Richa Jackson would have helped this year.
 
triaddukefan said:
crap... excuse my language
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TRIAD--

I thought that was a typo - I thought you meant "carp" (as in too much criticism of a fine Duke team doing its best even tho' the basket had a lid on it) :)
 
hoopfan515 said:
You have to give Duke credit for making it this far with all the injuries they've had. I don't think any other team had to endure that many this season.
If they can stay healthy, they will be a force to be reckoned with for the next few years.
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Stanford had to endure a lot of injuries this year. The Cardinal lost Jasmine Camp to a foot injury in December, Alex Green never got healthy after being injured as a senior in high school, and Mikaela Ruef is redshirting this year after suffering from plantar fascilitis. Not to mention, Sarah Boothe was out of commission for six weeks and Bonnie Samuelson just broke a finger on her left (non-shooting) hand.
 
Sakibomb25 said:
Stanford had to endure a lot of injuries this year. The Cardinal lost Jasmine Camp to a foot injury in December, Alex Green never got healthy after being injured as a senior in high school, and Mikaela Ruef is redshirting this year after suffering from plantar fascilitis. Not to mention, Sarah Boothe was out of commission for six weeks and Bonnie Samuelson just broke a finger on her left (non-shooting) hand.
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Did Camp start? Would Green have started? Would Ruef have started? Would Boothe have started? Samuelson? No to at least four, likely five of those.

Duke lost two starters.
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
Did Camp start? Would Green have started? Would Ruef have started? Would Boothe have started? Samuelson? No to at least four, likely five of those.

Duke lost two starters.
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Camp was a starter at the time she was injured. Ruef was projected by some as a possible starter at the 3, but no one knows if that would have happened since she was injured right from the start of the year.

I don't think the OP was trying to argue that Stanford was hurt by injuries more than Duke was, just pointing out that Stanford had a lot of injuries too.
 
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