When I posted my comment about tonight's refs, I was thinking the same thing. It was a guess on my part who was the culprit, especially when it came to a charge vs a block and a blocked shot vs a foul...
I have had questions about Betts’ toughness since she was ranked the number one prospect. But, she has time to toughen up before her draft day iin two years
It's more about skills to me. I don't see much variety in her low post moves. There's certainly time to improve that, some players completely transform their game as they mature. Also, she's a black hole, she has 10 assists this season. She needs to figure out how to pass out of a double/triple team.
Yeah. Two great teams + high altitude. Congrats to both.
After that initial quick foul by KSt, I'm guessing Baylor thought it was going to happen again so they threw up a 3 hoping they could turn that into 3 free throws.
Cal appears to be improved enough that you can't just overlook that part of the Bay Area road trip. 3 of the 4 Northwest schools left Berkeley with a loss this year.
I’m pretty sure coaching will keep them both out of the final four but we will see!
Littlejohn is your best chance of avoiding the score if it's going well for the Gamecocks.
I mean look, I realize I risk a serious accusation of sour grapes here, but there’s a reason I just wasn’t that devastated that she transferred. If anyone wants to make the case for why she should have started over Brink or Iriafen on our squad, I’m waiting… and from her mother’s embarrassingly half-anonymous posts on our fan board made clear, her transfer was predicated on expecting to start this season and leaving when she wouldn’t be given that guarantee.
I've had the same thoughts about Betts for a while now -- as far back as her last appearance in the FIBA games. She has a good shooting touch around the rim and seems to have good hands. She is also painfully slow, lumbering even. Kamila is much quicker running the floor and moving her feet in the paint. And in tonight's game she looked somehow even slower, so much so that Close took her out in the final minutes and in OT. Clearly the coach sees her as a liability in clutch situations. I wonder if this decline is indicative of an undisclosed injury. If so, she might recover later this season and become again the pivotal player UCLA needs. But as she is now, I'm not sure they can beat Stanford, much less be competitive against SC.
Betts has always looked like that which is why I’ve always been flummoxed by how unhappy she seemed to be with her minutes at Stanford. No way should she starting over Brink and Kiki has made it obvious why she wasn’t starting over her as well. I’m skeptical of Close’s player development so I feel she would have been much better off at Stanford than potentially staying the same at UCLA but with more minutes.
I don’t read those numbers the same way I guess. 13/7 against UConn looks like a red flag to me. What sort of resistance could Edwards and Brady have posed to an effective big flanked by two other quality bigs? The real question mark is defense. She’s a good rim protector but too slow to guard much more than a few feet from the rim. That was clear last night. I think this was why Close took her out for much of the 4th and the OT.
Doesn't come across as sour grapes to me. Unfortunately, we're in a generation where this attitude exists among a lot of players, regardless of their ranking. In the end, it was best that she move on to where she feels appreciated. Better for the morale of Stanford in my opinion.
Who are the other two quality bigs on UCLA flanking Betts? Dugalic is a very solid player but not exactly a world beater (and she was 1-7 against UConn).
