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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 9:24:29 GMT -8
Now I'm REALLY excited about next year's team. We've got 6'7 and 6'9 coming in, but with the blooming Pivec and then Destiny Slocum on the floor at the same time, we'll have effectively 2 great floor leaders able to feed the ball inside. I hadn't expected Pivec to show up like she has. But man, her and Slocum? Who's gonna stop that pair? ===== CORVALLIS — If there is trouble in paradise, it sure didn't look that way Sunday morning at Gill Coliseum. Sure, 18th-ranked Oregon State couldn't get it done against sixth-ranked Notre Dame, falling 72-67 after leading for most of three quarters. But on a day when 7,570 spectators were on hand to see the breakfast-session marquee matchup, as well as the unveiling of a banner commemorating a third straight Pac-12 championship, optimism for the immediate future prevailed. "Disappointing to lose, because we had our chances," OSU sophomore Mikayla Pivec said. "But this gives us a lot of confidence that we can play with the best teams in the nation." What they learned
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Post by ricke71 on Nov 21, 2017 9:56:13 GMT -8
Pivec and then Destiny Slocum on the floor at the same time, we'll have effectively 2 great floor leaders able to feed the ball inside. I hadn't expected Pivec to show up like she has. But man, her and Slocum? Who's gonna stop that pair?
That’s funny, it looked to me like Pivec was the real deal right from the first month of last season. If I compare her ‘initiation’ to Corosdale (so far) or even Weise (way back when), there’s literally NO Comparison. Pivec’s court sense is simply off the charts. She hadn’t played point guard since very early HS - you’d have never known it based on performance so far, including v. Notre Dame. Many good years lie ahead.
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Post by mrazz on Nov 21, 2017 18:09:45 GMT -8
I'm gonna second that, ricke71. But I will temper the comparison a little by saying I think that Pivec's "step up" comes as a dividend to having played with Sid and Gabby for a year. Think of it as Compounding Interest. Every year the system gets stronger. Every year the leaders build on what came before them and impart what they've learned (along with motivation, drive and intensity) to those that follow.
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