OSU vs Arkansas Pine Bluff: November 6, 2023

I was so impressed by Hunter. Boy can she hang on both ends of the floor. And I never felt nervous when the ball was in her hands- haven’t felt like that since Aleah left. I won’t be surprised if she’s starting at the 1 pretty soon here.

I think the apb player was frustrated because she couldn't do anything with Raegan.  No matter how hard she pushed she couldn't move her.  When the foul was called on her she must have said something.  With how quick the call was made either she was either way over the line or had been complaining before.  

Sad thing is that it took away any chance apb had of winning.  

Well sad for her team and especially her.   

They used a lot of energy today, I hope they can recuperate before their next game. At least it's a couple days. 

It's just one game, with a couple exhibitions under their belt but here's some early thoughts.
Beavs have a lot of talent, but don't play well as a team yet. I think it will take a while to find out which players work best together to form that team. That is what the non-conference season is all about, so playing 11 tonight was a good thing. I think we need to remember that the Beavs lost 4 starters, and the two players who handled the ball the most from last season (Bendu, Noelle, Jelena and Shalexxus). Nor do they play defense until they get in trouble. I would feel a lot better if they came out playing aggressive defense from the start. This seems to be a hangover from the last few seasons, and a bit surprising since Coach is so big on defense.
AJ may have still been playing on a sore ankle, so I can only hope she will be more productive as the season goes along.
Timea has all the talent in the world, but doesn't seem ready for prime-time yet. I don't think we will see her full potential until she gets a lot more minutes. Non-conference season is the time to get those minutes.
There were a lot of missed shots right around the basket tonight. I hope that was more first game jitters and not a sign of bad shooting.
The Dom and Dono show was fun tonight. I've said all along that the freshman class was underrated, and it looks like they are a great follow up class to last season's freshman group. Dom continues to look like Mik, and I want to see more of her this season. I don't know if Dono is ready to go against Pac-12 talent, but I think she'll hold up pretty well. There is certainly a bright future within her reach.

I didn't notice anything physical during the live stream but I had recorded the live stream to my computer so I went back and looked at the play and during the scramble for the ball RB inadvertently pushed the APG player out of her way and she didn't take kindly to it and went after RB and gave her a quick shove in the shoulder area and also mouthed off to RB. The T was called because of the shove to RB.  My sound was not working on the stream so what I didn't understand was why we got 4 FT's on the T---2 by RB and then 2 by Lily. Was there a 2nd T called for the mouthing off or maybe on the coach---anyone know?