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Post by nwhoopfan on Mar 8, 2024 20:05:23 GMT -8
If I take off my orange-colored glasses, and reflect back, I think you have to be happy with the season. It looked so easy for the Beavs in the 1st quarter. The high screen and ball movement were great. Gardiner caught fire. But, shots stop falling, and the grind begins. We were not quite up to the grind with Stanford, maybe due to the 2OT game, or maybe other reasons. I think the calls were fair, maybe inconsistent, but what you expect from Pac-12 refs. There are 3 good bigs in the conference: Brink, Betts, and Beers. Remember Raegan is a sophomore. You can build a team around her. Gardiner is so improved. I think she can be Maurice Lucas on the 77 Blazers. Donovyn gives us everything we need. I just think 2-4 (backup 4) need more consistency, and that is what we need to work on for next year. There's a reason the top teams have 4th and 5th year seniors. I'll only disagree on one minor point... (3) true. But, Iriafen is much MUCH better than Betts. Betts is average, tall and very weak. Agreed. I've been fairly underwhelmed several times I've watched Betts.
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Post by grad1973 on Mar 8, 2024 20:16:19 GMT -8
Betts will be much inproved by her senior season like beers they came from a state without alot of competition. They were both behind the 8 ball comming into college. As hard ss that seems. They are both talented!
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Post by grayman on Mar 8, 2024 20:17:42 GMT -8
Care to provide a link to your preseason conference rankings? I don't remember seeing them back in October. I mean this isn't just an exercise in 20/20 retrospective prognostication, surely not. Oh, so clever. Of course I didn't make a Pac-12 preseason list. Did you think OSU was going to finish 10th? I'm so sure you did. And if you did, you were way off. As I added to my post after you posted this response, the predictions were made by the coaches (supposedly) and media members. And they picked Utah to win it. How dare I imply that maybe the Beavers were better than 10th going in based on the players they had. That's impossible for a mere message board commenter to do! You have to coach the game. Or be the team's social media person. Or a media member. LOL. If you have a problem with me, maybe don't die on this hill. Counter my posts about OSU's offense or something. Actually, reading back through all of this I'm not really sure if you're mostly just trying to joke around with me or what. So I'm going to go ahead and assume that and take back my attitude behind my responses. No sense in getting into it over minor stuff with someone who is also clearly a big OSU women's basketball fan.
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Post by Werebeaver on Mar 8, 2024 20:22:43 GMT -8
Yeah, what the hell do Pac-12 head coaches know? Certainly not as much as internet message board posters. Team (First-Place Votes) Points 1.Utah (7) 116 2.UCLA (3) 109 3.Stanford (2) 100 4.Colorado 90 5.Washington State 84 6.USC 70 7.Arizona 51 8.Oregon 49 9.Washington 46 10.Oregon State 43
11.California 22 12.Arizona State 12 Hey, they got ASU right Didn't even get ASU right, Oregon beat them to the cellar. My god, you're right. How tf did I miss that? LOLOL. fml
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Post by bdudbeaver on Mar 8, 2024 20:25:12 GMT -8
I'll only disagree on one minor point... (3) true. But, Iriafen is much MUCH better than Betts. Betts is average, tall and very weak. Agreed. I've been fairly underwhelmed several times I've watched Betts. Not going to disagree, since I am not that tuned in. What I did see, in the 2nd half at the game in Gill, after Raegan went down, it seemed like she scored every time she touched the basketball. Probably had Paurova on her, sure. And she does have 3 inches on the others.
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Post by Werebeaver on Mar 8, 2024 20:31:48 GMT -8
Oh, so clever. Of course I didn't make a Pac-12 preseason list. Did you think OSU was going to finish 10th? I'm so sure you did. And if you did, you were way off. As I added to my post after you posted this response, the predictions were made by the coaches (supposedly) and media members. And they picked Utah to win it. How dare I imply that maybe the Beavers were better than 10th going in based on the players they had. That's impossible for a mere message board commenter to do! You have to coach the game. Or be the team's social media person. Or a media member. LOL. If you have a problem with me, maybe don't die on this hill. Counter my posts about OSU's offense or something. Actually, reading back through all of this I'm not really sure if you're mostly just trying to joke around with me or what. So I'm going to go ahead and assume that and take back my attitude behind my responses. No sense in getting into it over minor stuff with someone who is also clearly a big OSU women's basketball fan. I honestly had no idea. I knew Timea was highly rated but nothing she did last season prepared me for her breakthrough (all-conference) performance this year. And of course Talia's sophomore campaign ended inauspiciously so I wasn't sure what to expect from her. I'm optimistic by nature but I also know that recruits don't always live up to expectations. So the coaches on average felt that 9 teams were likely to finish with a better conference record than OSU. I just took that for what it was worth, a mark of informed expectations - their 'educated guess'. I know one thing for certain. All 12 Pac-12 head coaches know more about basketball than I do. Not that that's saying much.
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Post by Judge Smails on Mar 8, 2024 20:51:19 GMT -8
This game was our game to win…. Very disappointing but only because the kids were to star struck to kick stanfords ass. These kids dont realize yet they were the better team in e very faze! Lets prove it in NCAA’s We were the better team in every phase (faze?), but yet we lost to them all 3 times? lol
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Post by osu82 on Mar 8, 2024 21:03:27 GMT -8
This game was our game to win…. Very disappointing but only because the kids were to star struck to kick stanfords ass. These kids dont realize yet they were the better team in e very faze! Lets prove it in NCAA’s We were the better team in every phase (faze?), but yet we lost to them all 3 times? lol If they play defense like they’re capable of and shoot 48-50% from the field, then yeah they can beat Stanford. But otherwise, Stanford beats this team 8 games out of 10.
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Post by rgeorge on Mar 8, 2024 21:13:51 GMT -8
We were the better team in every phase (faze?), but yet we lost to them all 3 times? lol If they play defense like they’re capable of and shoot 48-50% from the field, then yeah they can beat Stanford. But otherwise, Stanford beats this team 8 games out of 10. Well, OSU is on a 15 game slide so?? But, not the longest kidding streak. That'd be 29... 69-9 overall, 62-8 in conference as far as I can tell.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Mar 8, 2024 21:19:05 GMT -8
Rueck played the exhausted group that played the double overtime game. The major thing about this team is it's depth, and he ignored it completely. Sometimes I really scratch my head about his decisions. Maybe because they are the best players?
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Post by osu82 on Mar 8, 2024 21:30:06 GMT -8
If they play defense like they’re capable of and shoot 48-50% from the field, then yeah they can beat Stanford. But otherwise, Stanford beats this team 8 games out of 10. Well, OSU is on a 15 game slide so?? But, not the longest kidding streak. That'd be 29... 69-9 overall, 62-8 in conference as far as I can tell. Yeah, lol. That’s a good point.
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Post by rgeorge on Mar 8, 2024 21:30:32 GMT -8
Rueck played the exhausted group that played the double overtime game. The major thing about this team is it's depth, and he ignored it completely. Sometimes I really scratch my head about his decisions. Maybe because they are the best players? And they didn't seem too exhausted screwing around having fun walking the casino?? Not to mention they are 18-21, 22 with over 24 hours to recover. But, the extreme emotional high of the 1st quarter followed by the frustrating next two quarters would be very emotionally draining.
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Post by rgeorge on Mar 8, 2024 21:36:50 GMT -8
Rueck played the exhausted group that played the double overtime game. The major thing about this team is it's depth, and he ignored it completely. Sometimes I really scratch my head about his decisions. Maybe because they are the best players? And they didn't seem too exhausted screwing around having fun walking the casino?? Not to mention they are 18-21, 22 with over 24 hours to recover. It was 10 extra minutes of hoops. Stressful? Sure. But, these ladies can play for hours. But, the extreme emotional high of the 1st quarter followed by the frustrating next two quarters would be very emotionally draining. OSU lost...
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Post by Werebeaver on Mar 8, 2024 22:15:37 GMT -8
Maybe because they are the best players? And they didn't seem too exhausted screwing around having fun walking the casino?? Not to mention they are 18-21, 22 with over 24 hours to recover. But, the extreme emotional high of the 1st quarter followed by the frustrating next two quarters would be very emotionally draining. I think “screwing-around” is uncalled for. Maybe I’m over sensitive but so be it. I respect these gals.
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Post by beaverstever on Mar 8, 2024 22:25:14 GMT -8
After watching the UCLA/USC game (and this season in general), the one major difference I feel about this year in general is that none of the Pac-12 teams are going to get bullied by the good SEC and ACC teams like has what seemed to happen often a decade ago. South Carolina will probably still bully anybody, but this is the most battle-hardened group of teams going into the tournament that I can recall. You never know how it will actually go, but I will not be surprised if any of 7 Pac-12 teams make a deep run (I'm including UA). A bad matchup can out anybody, but all of these teams know how to battle extremely well. The top 5 in particular are SUCH good defensive teams. I can't recall a tournament where I was so interested in watching how all the Pac-12 teams fare, and of course very optimistic that OSU can make a deep run themselves.
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