[teejers1]

Happy for the win, but there were plenty of times during the game that this looked the Stanford of the previous five years. At least the offense improved from the first half to the second: 36% to 50% FG, 10% to 46% 3-pointers, 5-7 to 11-15 FT. And Harrison Ingram was awesome. But 12 assists and 14 turnovers is stomach-churning.

We'll see how the team performs at Santa Clara on Friday.

Offense improved in the second half based on the personnel, mostly getting O'Connell, Murrell and Kisunas off the floor and giving a lot of minutes to Silva, Ingram, Delaire and Raynaud. As others have said, the true freshmen were really, really good, esp Ingram but Silva was dynamic and created shots for others in a way that O'Connell can't and Raynaud moved well and is promising as a young big. Admittedly it was only one game, but my hot take on the flip side: Murrell should barely see the floor, Keefe should never see the floor, O'Connell should be backing up Silva, and Kisunas is fine coming off the bench as a banger but will hopefully be backing up Raynaud soon. Haase seems to love "his guys" to a fault, meaning the floor burn types with limited talent (which describes him back at Cal/Kansas plus a lot of last night's starters), but I'm encouraged he kept with the young crew in the second half and as a season ticket holder hope that continues. In the first half I was admittedly already thinking it was going to be a lot of painful nights at Maples, but second half line-up gave me a lot of hope.

Interesting.  I have opposite takes on Kisunas (12 and 5 is damn good) and Delaire (bailed out by refs; still leads with his off arm too much); and I'm not ready to designate Silva as the starter over MOC.  It's one game, and their games were comparable last night.  Let's see how things play out, including against better competition.  I do agree that Maxime has a higher ceiling than Kisunas, so there is greater upside there.  But in terms of realizing it . . . again, we'll see.

[teejers1]

Happy for the win, but there were plenty of times during the game that this looked the Stanford of the previous five years. At least the offense improved from the first half to the second: 36% to 50% FG, 10% to 46% 3-pointers, 5-7 to 11-15 FT. And Harrison Ingram was awesome. But 12 assists and 14 turnovers is stomach-churning.

We'll see how the team performs at Santa Clara on Friday.

Offense improved in the second half based on the personnel, mostly getting O'Connell, Murrell and Kisunas off the floor and giving a lot of minutes to Silva, Ingram, Delaire and Raynaud. As others have said, the true freshmen were really, really good, esp Ingram but Silva was dynamic and created shots for others in a way that O'Connell can't and Raynaud moved well and is promising as a young big. Admittedly it was only one game, but my hot take on the flip side: Murrell should barely see the floor, Keefe should never see the floor, O'Connell should be backing up Silva, and Kisunas is fine coming off the bench as a banger but will hopefully be backing up Raynaud soon. Haase seems to love "his guys" to a fault, meaning the floor burn types with limited talent (which describes him back at Cal/Kansas plus a lot of last night's starters), but I'm encouraged he kept with the young crew in the second half and as a season ticket holder hope that continues. In the first half I was admittedly already thinking it was going to be a lot of painful nights at Maples, but second half line-up gave me a lot of hope.

Interesting.  I have opposite takes on Kisunas (12 and 5 is damn good) and Delaire (bailed out by refs; still leads with his off arm too much); and I'm not ready to designate Silva as the starter over MOC.  It's one game, and their games were comparable last night.  Let's see how things play out, including against better competition.  I do agree that Maxime has a higher ceiling than Kisunas, so there is greater upside there.  But in terms of realizing it . . . again, we'll see.