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Post by ffymdr123 on Jan 21, 2024 15:50:48 GMT -8
I don't watch wbb as close as others here but is there something wrong with TVO physically or otherwise. She just looks like something is off. She's fine. She runs the court fine, defends fined, rebounds well and passes the ball well (most of the time). Maybe a few too many turnovers at times. Her shooting has continued to be spotty. Rueck has been more about playing anybody who is playing well in a given game or provides a better matchup this season. Not just automatically giving big minutes to any one player. It was about how she looked when she was out there today, not her minutes. She did not look herself today. She appeared sluggish and not herself from the get go I thought. Something seemed different today specifically.
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Post by grayman on Jan 21, 2024 15:52:28 GMT -8
She's fine. She runs the court fine, defends fined, rebounds well and passes the ball well (most of the time). Maybe a few too many turnovers at times. Her shooting has continued to be spotty. Rueck has been more about playing anybody who is playing well in a given game or provides a better matchup this season. Not just automatically giving big minutes to any one player. It was about how she looked when she was out there today, not her minutes. She did not look herself today. She appeared sluggish and not herself from the get go I thought. Something seemed different today specifically. Yeah, you caught this while I was adding that I wasn't really watching TVO much today.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 21, 2024 16:00:31 GMT -8
She's fine. She runs the court fine, defends fined, rebounds well and passes the ball well (most of the time). Maybe a few too many turnovers at times. Her shooting has continued to be spotty. Rueck has been more about playing anybody who is playing well in a given game or provides a better matchup this season. Not just automatically giving big minutes to any one player. It was about how she looked when she was out there today, not her minutes. She did not look herself today. She appeared sluggish and not herself from the get go I thought. Something seemed different today specifically. FWIW she looked fine to me. Stanford wasn’t allowing her much space to operate today.
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Post by beaverwbb fan on Jan 21, 2024 16:00:54 GMT -8
Always tough missing out on a good opportunity.
Iriafen is a tough matchup for Beers on the defensive end. She’s really good and vastly improved.
I think this team may go as far as the guards can take us. Beers is Beers. She’s been consistently really good. Our guards struggle to score it and it’s tough to watch Talia have such little impact given her talent and skillset. This team needs her to step up.
Still like where we’re at, but we have a very tough weekend coming up.
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Post by bmoc on Jan 21, 2024 16:03:38 GMT -8
I think this weekend was enough to get us into the top 25 tomorrow.
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Post by beaveragain on Jan 21, 2024 16:05:38 GMT -8
The only way Kiki could stop Beers inside was to foul her. If they'd given Beers the ball inside more instead of just using her for screens they could have fouled Kiki out (she ended up with 4 fouls) and more than half of Stanford's points would have been gone. Ah well, on to the next game.
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Post by beaveragain on Jan 21, 2024 16:08:33 GMT -8
Once again the Beav's PG's aren't an offensive threat. Hunter and Shuler are just ignored at the perimeter, which makes it hard for anyone else to get open.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 21, 2024 16:09:43 GMT -8
The only way Kiki could stop Beers inside was to foul her. If they'd given Beers the ball inside more instead of just using her for screens they could have fouled Kiki out (she ended up with 4 fouls) and more than half of Stanford's points would have been gone. Ah well, on to the next game. Or deny the entry to Beers, which Stanford did a good job of.
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Post by grayman on Jan 21, 2024 16:12:43 GMT -8
I think this weekend was enough to get us into the top 25 tomorrow. It should be, especially with some lower ranked top 25 teams losing.
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Post by grad1973 on Jan 21, 2024 16:15:53 GMT -8
We wont have another chance like today to beat the crap out of stanford. Next time will be harder.
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Post by grayman on Jan 21, 2024 16:16:28 GMT -8
I think this team is about as good as we could expect right now considering how young it is. Is it short a second consistent scorer? Yes. That will most likely be a problem against the better teams, particularly ones that play good defense like Stanford. Overall, I really like this team. I hope Rueck can figure out a few things to boost the offense.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 21, 2024 16:20:51 GMT -8
We wont have another chance like today to beat the crap out of stanford. Next time will be harder. I don’t think “beating the crap out of Stanford” was ever in the cards. A close W was the best-case scenario for a road W at Maples, even w/o Brink.
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Post by rgeorge on Jan 21, 2024 16:23:21 GMT -8
The only way Kiki could stop Beers inside was to foul her. If they'd given Beers the ball inside more instead of just using her for screens they could have fouled Kiki out (she ended up with 4 fouls) and more than half of Stanford's points would have been gone. Ah well, on to the next game. Or deny the entry to Beers, which Stanford did a good job of. Yeah tough to get too excited about post play when the opponent doubles you up! Plus, pretty sure Beers disappeared the last 11-12 minutes. She had 0 pts, 1 board from near the 1:40 mark left in the 3rd. She had 10/6 before then. Whereas Iriafen's 12 in the 3rd followed by 10 in the 4th. Rewatching the 4th right now to see wtf was the cause. Stanford D? OSU's scheme? Bit of both? I know she had a good game at Cal. But, if Timea can't get wide open looks she provides little help to this team. She simply wanders the 3 pt line. She should be a matchup nightmare inside, but rarely ventures anywhere near.
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Post by bvrbooster on Jan 21, 2024 16:36:02 GMT -8
I think this team is about as good as we could expect right now considering how young it is. Is it short a second consistent scorer? Yes. That will most likely be a problem against the better teams, particularly ones that play good defense like Stanford. Overall, I really like this team. I hope Rueck can figure out a few things to boost the offense. I agree with that. The moment just proved too big for our very young team, particularly our freshmen. We're a year away from being able to contend for a championship in a conference like this - just a damn shame that we won't get that chance. Going forward, we need to win 1 of 2 next weekend, and then beat Oregon. That would put us at 6-4 in conference, 17-4 overall, and set us up for a strong enough finish to get a good seeding in the tournament. I can see us winning 2 in March if we're a 6 seed - not going to be any 3 seed that's better than the teams in this conference that we're hanging in with.
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Post by Werebeaver on Jan 21, 2024 16:37:32 GMT -8
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