[BillBradley]

To the game and to the season...

We have the game tied with the ball to inbounds and 40 seconds left. Offense gets tied up but Lepolo misses seeing a wide open Nivar close to the basket and Tara has to call another TO. Then with 28 seconds left, Jones throws it to Jump who is trapped in the corner. Haley could have passed to Lepolo instead. Then Jump panics; could have passed into Brink who had position or called a TO. Then dumb foul by Haley which basically sealed the game. 

Bitter tast at the end of the season losing to Utah, Ucla, and now this one.

Too many turnovers, especially bad ones. Too many gimme missed shots. Too many acrobatic types shots around the basket that missed. Too weak rebounding. Too much Haley trying to force things rather than find open teammates.

When is Stanford going to learn that it needs to defend tightly on the perimeter (applies to MBB too) and not give so many open looks from three?

But in the end, we were what we knew we were; not strong enough at the guard positions to be championship caliber. On O, our guards cannot create and penetrate nor hit threes at any decent level. On D, they cannot pressure to force turnovers, bad shots, or rebound. 

I'll leave this on a positive note. Hats off to Brink. What a warrior! She had to be weakened after being sick, and puts up 20, 13, and 7. And an amazing 10 of 10 from the line. She hasn't missed a FT since Feb.12, and has made at least 46 in a row (had 5 of 6 prior, don't know when she had her miss) and she has made 70 of her last 72 FT attempts since Jan.27 and 85% for the season. Take away her first 5 games of the season and she would have been 89%. Her spirit and fight were incredible. Without her, we get blown out by 25. She needs to rub off onthe rest of the team.

Couldn't have said it better. To build on a few of your points:
- So disappointed in our perimeter D. Especially in the first half. We should have come out and stepped on their throats. Instead we let them take open elbow jumper after jumper, without even a hand up. And the freshman that hit 3 threes in a row, no one was within 10 feet of her. Just ridiculous.
- Why on earth doesn't Tara use a couple of the timeouts to save a few possessions, including Nivar on the floor and Hannah being stuck in the corner. Instead, she saves them up to advance the ball late. I'd trade a few of those possessions for the 2 seconds it takes to dribble the ball to half court any day. 
- I am so sick of our team inexplicably choosing not to throw the ball into our 6' 4", 85% FT shooter, all-everything on the block when she has her player pinned and instead reversing it away from her. Lepolo on her own must have done that 3 or 4 times. People watching with me were getting so tired of me screaming "Give it to her!". The only person more frustrated than me was probably Cam herself. I could hear her screaming for the ball on the TV and pleading with her teammates to throw it to her. And I do put some of this on Tara. I've always been a fan of Tara, but since the USC loss she just hasn't made the adjustments that I would have expected from a coach of her caliber. I really am shocked and can't explain it. Massive overreaction in my book. I thought she did a great job (obviously) on the natty run and last year so it's not like she's a coach who has gone years without success. But this team has really limped in. But...as the head coach, you make the calls. With it comes the accolades when you win and the criticism when you lose. Whatever calls she made clearly were off this year.
- Let me get this straight...Kiki and Fran are struggling mightily. Not scoring, not defending, barely rebounding (actually Kiki with a big goosegg in her 5 mins). Might we give our 6' 3" forward Brooke Demetre a try? She can't be any worse on D or on the boards, and we know she can spread the court and feed the ball to Cam and she can get awfully hot...nah. Minute here, minute there, but that's it. Baffling to me. She could have completely altered that game.
- Feel badly for Haley. For all the great things she's done in a Stanford uniform, those last couple minutes should not have been how her career ended. 
- Cam...wow. She is a warrior. By the time she's done, she'll be the best ever to wear a Stanford uniform. She'll also have the most successful pro career out of all our players. 

Time to get over this one and look toward next year. Glad Hannah is coming back and hopefully the incoming frosh will give us some new options.

[BillBradley]

To the game and to the season...

We have the game tied with the ball to inbounds and 40 seconds left. Offense gets tied up but Lepolo misses seeing a wide open Nivar close to the basket and Tara has to call another TO. Then with 28 seconds left, Jones throws it to Jump who is trapped in the corner. Haley could have passed to Lepolo instead. Then Jump panics; could have passed into Brink who had position or called a TO. Then dumb foul by Haley which basically sealed the game. 

Bitter tast at the end of the season losing to Utah, Ucla, and now this one.

Too many turnovers, especially bad ones. Too many gimme missed shots. Too many acrobatic types shots around the basket that missed. Too weak rebounding. Too much Haley trying to force things rather than find open teammates.

When is Stanford going to learn that it needs to defend tightly on the perimeter (applies to MBB too) and not give so many open looks from three?

But in the end, we were what we knew we were; not strong enough at the guard positions to be championship caliber. On O, our guards cannot create and penetrate nor hit threes at any decent level. On D, they cannot pressure to force turnovers, bad shots, or rebound. 

I'll leave this on a positive note. Hats off to Brink. What a warrior! She had to be weakened after being sick, and puts up 20, 13, and 7. And an amazing 10 of 10 from the line. She hasn't missed a FT since Feb.12, and has made at least 46 in a row (had 5 of 6 prior, don't know when she had her miss) and she has made 70 of her last 72 FT attempts since Jan.27 and 85% for the season. Take away her first 5 games of the season and she would have been 89%. Her spirit and fight were incredible. Without her, we get blown out by 25. She needs to rub off onthe rest of the team.

Couldn't have said it better. To build on a few of your points:
- So disappointed in our perimeter D. Especially in the first half. We should have come out and stepped on their throats. Instead we let them take open elbow jumper after jumper, without even a hand up. And the freshman that hit 3 threes in a row, no one was within 10 feet of her. Just ridiculous.
- Why on earth doesn't Tara use a couple of the timeouts to save a few possessions, including Nivar on the floor and Hannah being stuck in the corner. Instead, she saves them up to advance the ball late. I'd trade a few of those possessions for the 2 seconds it takes to dribble the ball to half court any day. 
- I am so sick of our team inexplicably choosing not to throw the ball into our 6' 4", 85% FT shooter, all-everything on the block when she has her player pinned and instead reversing it away from her. Lepolo on her own must have done that 3 or 4 times. People watching with me were getting so tired of me screaming "Give it to her!". The only person more frustrated than me was probably Cam herself. I could hear her screaming for the ball on the TV and pleading with her teammates to throw it to her. And I do put some of this on Tara. I've always been a fan of Tara, but since the USC loss she just hasn't made the adjustments that I would have expected from a coach of her caliber. I really am shocked and can't explain it. Massive overreaction in my book. I thought she did a great job (obviously) on the natty run and last year so it's not like she's a coach who has gone years without success. But this team has really limped in. But...as the head coach, you make the calls. With it comes the accolades when you win and the criticism when you lose. Whatever calls she made clearly were off this year.
- Let me get this straight...Kiki and Fran are struggling mightily. Not scoring, not defending, barely rebounding (actually Kiki with a big goosegg in her 5 mins). Might we give our 6' 3" forward Brooke Demetre a try? She can't be any worse on D or on the boards, and we know she can spread the court and feed the ball to Cam and she can get awfully hot...nah. Minute here, minute there, but that's it. Baffling to me. She could have completely altered that game.
- Feel badly for Haley. For all the great things she's done in a Stanford uniform, those last couple minutes should not have been how her career ended. 
- Cam...wow. She is a warrior. By the time she's done, she'll be the best ever to wear a Stanford uniform. She'll also have the most successful pro career out of all our players. 

Time to get over this one and look toward next year. Glad Hannah is coming back and hopefully the incoming frosh will give us some new options.