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TheFarmFan said:
Did you watch Betts last season? Honestly, most of the time she was a step slow, pretty tentative on offense, and got the ball stripped from her under the basket with surprising frequency. And here's the thing: she was in a post lineup behind a 6'4" Brink, 6'5" Prechtel, and 6'2" Belibi, all of whom were key cogs in our national championship run. Plus 6'3" Iriafen, who's much faster down the court, and a 6'1" Jones, who often played the 4 and was tied as our leading rebounder with Brink. I think it just wasn't a good fit for the roster we had, and not anyone's fault. But that said, I agree she's playing much more like a #1 recruit this season than she did last year.
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Betts should have gotten more of Prechtel's and Belibi's minutes. They barely improved from their sophomore years, and only had one season left. Betts had more upside and was a freshman. She was slow last season, but she needed time to play.
 
Betts is still a step slow, or more. But Close has surrounded her with an athletic group of kids, so she isn't as easily exposed. Tara could have done that last year too. Jones was the star at Stanford for 4 years, but it came with a cost, in this case of team speed if she wanted to play Betts more. A lineup of Betts Brink Jones Jump and one of the guards would be formidable in the half court, but vulnerable to teams that could make them run.

UCLA this year has much better team speed even with Betts on the floor for 30 mins. It's not just Rice Osborne and Londynn Jones who are quick, but Jaquez and Brown too. And their bigs are both big and strong, and Sontag and Dugalic are much quicker than Betts. Bessoir was maybe the quickest of their bigs, so losing her is a blow, but they are still very athletic. And it's easy to forget how strong Betts is. It's not that easy to move her off the low block. I suspect Cardoso or Ayoka Lee will have a hard time boxing her out in a head to head matchup with UCLA.
 
I was not impressed with Betts as a prospect. Her turn around, fall/away jumper looked good but I thought it a waste for a player of her size because it took her away from the post and the rebound. All in all, I just thought she looked slow soft against other to bigs.

Last year confirmed my thoughts - I thought! Not so sure now. She may have turned a mental corner and toughened up. It will be interesting to watch her this season against Brinks and other quality bigs.
 
"Betts should have gotten more of Prechtel's and Belibi's minutes. They barely improved from their sophomore years, and only had one season left. Betts had more upside and was a freshman. She was slow last season, but she needed time to play."

Prechtel and Belibi may have improved more if they got more playing time
 
Plebe said:
This has gotta be Cori's best team ever. Really a nice balance of speed and size, and of stars (Rice, Betts, Osborne) and role players. Right now I am sensing UCLA as the Pac-12 favorite just ahead of Stanford, Utah and USC. But that's a really strong top 4.

OSU drew some blood early with the press and took a 10-2 lead. Then it was all UCLA for about 30 minutes. Nothing seemed to be work well for the Buckeyes, but they scrapped and showed heart to close the gap in 4Q. Got it down to 4 points in the final minute but ran out of time.

It's gonna take me a while to wrap my brain around the fact that these two teams will be in the same conference in 9 months.
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Betts has really opened things up for the rest of the team both offensively and defensively. She draws so much attention on offense that other players are waltzing to the basket when the double team won't leave her. On one possession last night, Dugalic sneaked under the basket for an easy lay-in because OSU was watching Betts run down the court, trailing the ball. That's living in the other team's head.

Defensively, UCLA is not sagging off perimeter players because they think that Betts has the middle covered. And, opposing players are not driving in on her. She gets surprisingly few fouls.

Her main backup, Christeen Iwuala, has stepped up her game quite a bit as well, and is able to run up and down the court in a way that Betts can't, presenting a nice change of pace without going small.

This core group of sophomores (Rice, Jones, Betts, Iwuala, Jacquez, Sontag) will be together for 3 more years.
 
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In exchange for reneging on the Toronto game with UConn, coach Verdi and his Pitt squad take an L to Ball State.

But at least he's getting to work on his tan in Tampa
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nwhoopfan said:
Is Pitt losing to Ball St. today enough reason to disband the league?
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Every game that Pitt plays is grounds for disbandment :p
 
Oregon just lost to Utah Tech. What? It's not like the Ducks have no talent. What is going on in Eugene this year?

edit--but at least it wasn't by 30 or 40 points, like their previous bad losses to mid majors
 
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triaddukefan said:
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I had to look up finna. I know I've looked it up before, but I didn't remember. That's one of those new words that hasn't worked its way into my vocabulary so far. Which is different than old words that are given totally new meanings. Like drip. And fire. I need a "you kids get off my lawn" sign.
 
redhat said:
"Betts should have gotten more of Prechtel's and Belibi's minutes. They barely improved from their sophomore years, and only had one season left. Betts had more upside and was a freshman. She was slow last season, but she needed time to play."

Prechtel and Belibi may have improved more if they got more playing time
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They had 4 years to show improvement.
 
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How do you beat a team that has a huge size and athleticism advantage over you? Simple: hit 21 of 31 three-pointers.

Utah Tech, the former Dixie State, upsets Oregon, 92-86.

Is Oregon the second-worst team in the Pac-12 this year? Quite the free-fall in just four seasons.

Check out the Utah Tech 3-point shooting. One player shot 8-10, another went 6-10, a freshman off the bench (Calyn Dallas) went 4-5, and another freshman off the bench (Willardson) hit two 3s and a layup in crunch time to help seal the win.

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nwhoopfan said:
I had to look up finna. I know I've looked it up before, but I didn't remember. That's one of those new words that hasn't worked its way into my vocabulary so far. Which is different than old words that are given totally new meanings. Like drip. And fire. I need a "you kids get off my lawn" sign.
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That’s because you didn’t know contraction “finna” in its uncontracted form: “fix in’ to.”
 
visitingcock said:
That’s because you didn’t know contraction “finna” in its uncontracted form: “fix in’ to.”
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That actually makes sense. Yeet is another word that has me wondering "where did that come from?"
 
Plebe said:
How do you beat a team that has a huge size and athleticism advantage over you? Simple: hit 21 of 31 three-pointers.

Utah Tech, the former Dixie State, upsets Oregon, 92-86.

Is Oregon the second-worst team in the Pac-12 this year? Quite the free-fall in just four seasons.

Check out the Utah Tech 3-point shooting. One player shot 8-10, another went 6-10, a freshman off the bench (Calyn Dallas) went 4-5, and another freshman off the bench (Willardson) hit two 3s and a layup in crunch time to help seal the win.

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So is Oregon just incredibly unlucky? Santa Clara went nuts shooting 3s against them as well. Or maybe they have just about the worst 3 point defense in history. I watched SCU against Oregon St. and they looked BAD.
 
visitingcock said:
That’s because you didn’t know contraction “finna” in its uncontracted form: “fix in’ to.”
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nwhoopfan said:
That actually makes sense. Yeet is another word that has me wondering "where did that come from?"
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It may have been an autocorrect fail, but it’s fixin’ (one word) as in fixing.

kellykazek.com

Here’s why Southerners say ‘fixin’ to’

Below is an excerpt from a column that appeared on It’s a Southern Thing (SoutherThing.com). To be immediately directed to the full column, click here. When I was at Auburn University, I went…
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Plebe said:
In exchange for reneging on the Toronto game with UConn, coach Verdi and his Pitt squad take an L to Ball State.

But at least he's getting to work on his tan in Tampa
:)





Every game that Pitt plays is grounds for disbandment :p
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I would gladly trade Pitt and BC for any other two teams.

Think Chicago State would be interested in joining the ACC?
 
nwhoopfan said:
So is Oregon just incredibly unlucky? Santa Clara went nuts shooting 3s against them as well. Or maybe they have just about the worst 3 point defense in history. I watched SCU against Oregon St. and they looked BAD.
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Kelly Graves has got to go
 
Oklahoma has missed 23 consecutive THREEs and has only 3 FG in the second half.
 
LETTERL said:
Oklahoma has missed 23 consecutive THREEs and has only 3 FG in the second half.
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Both teams look awful. I've basically seen two things--missed shots and fouls. That's all that either team is doing.
 
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Texas Tech is about to pick up their first loss of the season...to Tulsa.
 
The number of unbeatens is now 11, after Tulsa handed Texas Tech its first loss of the season, 66-58.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Texas Tech is about to pick up their first loss of the season...to Tulsa.
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Tulsa is a power 5 killer this season. Wins now over Clemson (the ACC leader), Florida (from the mighty SEC) and now previously undefeated juggernaut Texas Tech Lady Raiders.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Both teams look awful. I've basically seen two things--missed shots and fouls. That's all that either team is doing.
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It was a really ugly game. 24 fouls in the first half alone. UNC looked ragged early, but wow OU looked "turrible" in the 2nd half, kinda like a toddler up way past bedtime. Just ice cold in the 2nd half, and 1 of 26 for the game from 3.

The experience of Kelly, Ustby and Donarski really carried the 2nd half for UNC. The Tar Heels look dysfunctional a lot of the time, but they held it together better than OU. I still don't understand how they gave South Carolina such a close game.

It's not often I root for an ACC team over a Big 12 team, but UConn needs the UNC win to hold up as semi-significant and, meanwhile, OU's loss to Tennessee means they're on my thumbs-down list for the rest of the season :)
 
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Vowelguy said:
Wow, first child of a player since I started following the sport in 95.

Neveah Tot of Oklahoma is the daughter of Helen Darling. Darling was on the 2000 Penn St team that lost to UConn in the final 4.
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Helen Darling was a fantastic player, one of my favorite point guards from that era.

It's easy to forget now that Penn State was really good there for a while.
 
Thanks for nothing Boomer Sooner. Just when I was about to break out the Rogers and Hammerstein :oops:
 
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