Everybody saying WSU isn't any good?

In basketball often the best team does not even win. It is a game where matchups and timing play a major role. By timing I refer to either team or players on those teams having a good of bad shooting day. It also includes things such as injuries and officiating which might vary from game to game. Often even consistant officiating might favor one team over the other. If the devide between teams is too great then neither timing or match ups would make a difference. But if the teams are close enough in talent they can make all the difference.

To often fans put too much credence into a small sample. Especially in college ball where the teams do not really play that many games, those samples are often not really a good measure of a teams actual strength. One has to also look at how the results and out comes were determined. We they a result of aome out of the ordinary effort by individual player or even the team as a whole?

As I often say, No team or player is ever as good as their best game or as bad as their worst. Teams and players production varies, on a sliding scale, from game to game. It takes more than one or a few games to really get a perspective of the abilities of a team. Especially this season with so many variables at play.

Skeems eh? We don’t play man because we don’t have the quickness to play man. Also, I don’t know what to tell you if you cant see that they have more talent.

The first half the Beav's were outscored by 21 pts playing the zone.  The second half the Beav's won by a point playing man.  Not sure your lack of quickness works out by the facts.

Rueck may be playing more zone defense to keep Goodman out of possible foul trouble, and any other starters.
Backup point guard not too strong presently.

I think you might have a point. I don't think Scotty knows yet what he wants to do with is rotations. Her still seems to be experimenting. 

 Just an example of my earlier post on  using a small sample to evalutate teams. The Clippers beat the Lakers in their opener. The Lakers beat the Mav's by twenty leading the entire game. Playing the Clippers a few games ago the Mave's set a new NBA record by having a 50 pt half time lead. Now based on these games alone it would be difficult to decide which team was the best. But the NBA plays enough games that it soon becomes evident. This is something that does not happen in college ball. 

This is an example of catching teams at the right time- or as I say timing. In college they do not play as many games and most of the time, except for league they never play each other twice. In evaluating teams by outcome one has to also consider how and one team beat another team along with the circumstances to get a clear picture of actual team strength. Most college fans, however, never consider those variables. 

As another poster pointed out, defense often makes no difference. Often players have open shots and just miss. If a player is hot they can dictate a game. One thing I noticed and did not like about their man to man defense. It is when a defender follows their assignment around a pick rather that cutting across the player setting the pick. I understand that is what Scott teaches. Goodwin got picked off on a key basket by Washington state when she could have challenged the shot by going around the pick on the other side rather than following their assignment. Players should be taught to fight through a screen. 

Great, we just barely lost the 2nd half to their bench. That’s encouraging.