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Post by rgeorge on Nov 12, 2024 20:37:43 GMT -8
Tipping Point game. We needed to start putting it, good basketball, all together. Third quarter happens Gill goes wild. Heide has a career game, 26 points, 11 rebounds, more importantly she showed she will be a top Center in the WCC conference games. Reese contributes 16 point and solid defense and solid leadership end to end. We had 52 points in the paint tonight. More, Bolden and Ferrira have outstanding skills. They bring positive energy every seond their on the court. In short they are game changers. This clearly is AJ and Shuler’s team now. Both dynamic on and off the ball. Total gamers. Schimel is growing every minute she’s on the court. Starter tonight. Played hard, smart, fast, basketball. Going to be special, very special. Yepes, Vacina, Navarro, showed they can play Div-1 basketball and play it well. Like how quick they learned their place on the court. Saw Mehyar play for the first time tonight. Fun to watch, lots to hope for in your game. This game showed we belong in the new season. Very impressive new team. Team found itself tonight. You do realize they just beat a DII team, right? You’re making a lot of assumptions off of playing a lower division team. A team in '23-24 that was 9-15 / 7-11 in a said lower division conference. I haven't watched WCC wbb that often, but I'm thinking NNU doesn't win a game in the WCC. OSU learned more from the road loss at a 20 win CSU than this win. |
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Post by beaveragain on Nov 12, 2024 22:06:23 GMT -8
The lessons the team and we learned from this game.
If they get the ball inside to Rees, and more importantly Heide, the team has a good chance for getting some points.
If they help each other with the rebounding they will be a decent rebounding team. If they don't help they won't.
This team could be the worst three point shooting team of the Rueck era.
There are players who can drive, now if the rest of the team can learn to help clear things out for the drives to succeed more often.
Defensively most of the players do just fine one on one so (against the teams they have faced). The problem is the newbies getting it down as to where they are supposed to be so that coverage is complete. ie, still too many open three's.
Rees is pretty close to being a lockdown defender against anyone except true bigs and the exceptionally quick. She hasn't had to play against any of those yet.
The only real problem I foresee for this team is their ability to shoot the three. Otherwise I could see them winning the WCC and getting to the tournament.
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Post by boydo on Nov 12, 2024 23:41:54 GMT -8
I wish I was as optomistic as you, but I think we are probably going to finish in the bottom half of the WCC. Their biggest player was 6-1 and they were not a quick team. Shuler made the same mistakes as last year and kept losing her dribble near the sideline and getting double teamed. The defense against Colorado State was terrible with wide open shots given up repeatedly. I think we will have difficulty scoring against more athletic teams.
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Post by jimbob on Nov 13, 2024 6:14:18 GMT -8
I just watched the replay of the game and I tend to agree with the above posters boydo, rgeorge, and Judge. NW Naz. is a D11 team with no height (tallest player was 6'1"), and not quick---I will give them credit for being scrappy and making the Beavers look terrible the 1st 5 min. or so of the game. We were behind 9-4 to this severely overmatched team after a succession of turnovers and poor shots and bad passes with our only points coming from Sela's uncontested point blank layins. At that point the coach brought in Cat and Tiara which infused some life into our team with their speed and quickness. And from that point on we were much better but it was such easy pickings for Sela and Kelsey with NW's lack of height that I would say about the only thing we got out of this game was confidence building for our players against an overmatched opponent. I honestly learned nothing about our team from this game, but I think we will learn a whole bunch about this team this weekend when they take on Minnesota and ASU. Let's hope this confidence building exercise will result in some better game play this upcoming weekend.
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Post by brewster on Nov 13, 2024 7:06:58 GMT -8
Reflective thinking about last night’s game against NW Nazarene. OSU 3 pointers will improve eventually. OSU was defiantly working on going inside last night and it was epically successful. This OSU Team is growing, inching its way forward like good teams often do. Putting up 80 points is significant for a group of players who are just starting to know about each other. That OSU scoring bust from consecutive steels in the third quarter, bam, bam, bam, seemed like a basketball dimension seldom seen at Gill.
Transition. On a positive note. I went the entire game without doing some short of mental gyration comparing this year’s team to last years. That felt great.
I get it, we have a bunch of challenges ahead of us, but come conference play, when it counts, we’ll be ready for it.
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Post by greybeav on Nov 13, 2024 15:13:41 GMT -8
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Post by greybeav on Nov 14, 2024 6:24:21 GMT -8
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