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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 3021904, member: 6034"] A couple of points after just coming back from the game. First, Ionescu's shooting slump continues and Graves even talked about it some in the radio postgame. She did seem to get going a bit toward the end, but for most of this game--and in fact for most of the Pac 12 season so far--she has been missing open shots that she used to make at a very high percentage. That's the bad news, but--and this is my second point--if last year, or for most, if not all, of this year for that matter--someone had said that Oregon could beat a good team (and Utah is for real) with Ionescu having scored only 3 points midway through the fourth quarter and not going off in the final minutes, most Duck fans (even) would have called that fan delusional at best. But--and this is the good news (for Oregon fans, anyway)--here we are early in February and Oregon did just that, with the final push being triggered by a bunch of drives to the basket by Sabally and key baskets by Cazorla, with some help from Boley and Hebard. And defense played a role as well. This is still Ionescu's team, but it is far less reliant upon her talents than in the past, and if she returns to form and no one gets hurt they will be imo considerably stronger than last year. [/QUOTE]