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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 3419966, member: 6034"] A couple of points. First, as much as some folks like to mention the 40-point beat down of several years ago, it has absolutely no relevance to this game. That Oregon team started 3 freshmen, a sophomore, and a junior, had barely made the tourney on the strength of upsetting Washington in the Pac 12 tournament, and had already criss-crossed the country twice on the way to upsetting, as a double digit seed, the #7, #3,and #2 seeds in their bracket. UCONN was obviously a bridge (way) too far after a miraculous run like that. Second, Hebard will likely cover Olivia, with Sabally on Makurat, at least initially, in order to (ideally) keep her out of foul trouble. That means Boley will probably start on Megan; how long she stays there will depend on whether her shooting makes up for her defense, which has improved but is still a work in progress; if not, then I think Graves will put Taylor Chavez on Megan and likely go, as he has quite often this year, with what seems to me Oregon's most effective lineup: Hebard, Sabally, Ionescu, and some combination of Moore, Chavez, and Shelley. In many ways, Moore's situation is the opposite of Boley's, with the key question being whether her activity on defense (she had 6 steals last night) makes up for the fact that UCONN will likely sag off her and clog the post when she has the ball. As for Sabrina, I don't think face guarding has ever worked in her case, and she's faced guards in the Pac 12 who are, imo, as quick as Crystal. [USER=1220]@willtalk[/USER] is right: think Didi Richards. And there are also some really good guard pairs in the Pac 12. [/QUOTE]

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