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The top seeds in this tournament look like basketball players. Everyone else so far has looked like girls.
 
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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!
 
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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) :)
 
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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.
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
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.
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Stanford played great D on Duke, clogging passing lanes and limiting Gray to 4 assists, compared to Kokenis' 8.
 
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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The players we lost would have played major minutes and helped our perimeter game, big time.
 
I love this: Duke and Stanford fans discussing/arguing on a UConn board. Inclusiveness is wonderful! :)
 
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MilfordHusky said:
I love this: Duke and Stanford fans discussing/arguing on a UConn board. Inclusiveness is wonderful! :)
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LOl.

I could go about Joanne P's pressing at the end of the game when it was clearly over, or when Nneka was shooting a FT, (also when the game was over) when one of the Duke players moved in the lane and threw her lower body in to Nneka.

The camera showed Tara telling the ref that, "That's bull-----!"

But I won't. :)
 
cardfan said:
The players we lost would have played major minutes and helped our perimeter game, big time.
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Translation...they were not starters. And major minutes? Think that is stretching it for anyone besides Ruef.
 
Can you two do the play by play for tonight's game? You're very entertaining:)
 
cardfan said:
then you didn't see Camp play vs. UConn and score 14pts.
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One game. Seriously?

Danielle Crockrom dominated the paint in the WNBA/WCBA game back in 2002. And what happened to her?
 
Cam, cry me a river about the injuries, it's a part of the game. Stanford has probably had 10 ACLs (and other season ending injuries) to your 1 or 2 in the last decade. And I won't even go into why Wells isn't playing.
 
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cardfan said:
Cam, cry me a river about the injuries, it's a part of the game. Stanford has probably had 10 ACLs (and other season ending injuries) to your 1 or 2 in the last decade. And I won't even go into why Wells isn't playing.
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CamrnCrz1974 said:
Translation...they were not starters. And major minutes? Think that is stretching it for anyone besides Ruef.
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As I said earlier, Camp was a starter when she was injured.
 
cardfan said:
Cam, cry me a river about the injuries, it's a part of the game. Stanford has probably had 10 ACLs (and other season ending injuries) to your 1 or 2 in the last decade. And I won't even go into why Wells isn't playing.
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Really cardfan? From the same poster who ALWAYS brings up injuries every time there is a big loss or every time the 1998 tournament gets mentioned?
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
Really cardfan? From the same poster who ALWAYS brings up injuries every time there is a big loss or every time the 1998 tournament gets mentioned?
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yes, really. What I object to, which you know, is the media failing to mention the injuries to 2 Stanford starters, who were 1st and 3rd team AAs, days prior to the H game. They were both historic events, but they only mention the loss.
 
cardfan said:
yes, really. What I object to, which you know, is the media failing to mention the injuries to 2 Stanford starters, who were 1st and 3rd team AAs, days prior to the H game. They were both historic events, but they only mention the loss.
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The record book records the loss, not the injuries. And this is after you just posted, "Cam, cry me a river about the injuries, it's a part of the game." That is my point.
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
The record book records the loss, not the injuries. And this is after you just posted, "Cam, cry me a river about the injuries, it's a part of the game." That is my point.
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My point was Stanford has had way more injuries than Duke, including many that affected our post season, beginning in '98 with Folkl/Nygard, followed by Susan King x2, Jamie Carey for good, JJ Hones x2, Mel Murphy, Ros Gold Onwude, Michelle Harrison, Appel, Kokenis last year and this yr with Camp, Green and Ruef. I'm sure there are others I forgot.
 
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