[2006alum]

We finished that game much better than we started, for all the reasons 81 said: we started hitting mid-range zone busters (thank you Demetre) and a lot of outside shots dropped (thank you Jump and Bosgana). And Norfolk St was unlikely to keep up that energy for 40 minutes when it was nearing midnight, body clock wise. 

Lepolo was superb on Johnson even though her offense was non-existent - and Norfolk St needed Johnson's offense much more than we needed Lepolo's, so I'll take that tradeoff every day. Did anyone notice how harsh their coach was to their players? He was pacing all over the floor and screaming at the ref. Johnson had one bad pass to a teammate and after she attempted a "my bad" hand slap to her teammate, the teammate rebuffed her, which she then pointed out to the coach. I got some bad vibes from their bench in a way that made me feel sort of bad for her, because she's a real gem of a player. 

I'll reiterate my hypothesis about Brink - I feel like her depth perception is off. Every once in a while she seems to completely misperceive where the ball is on a pass toher,  and it results in a TO or at least a really sloppy hand-off, and I feel like she's now back to twisting her body quite far to one side on free throws as she used to do in prior seasons, rather than squaring up, which makes me think she's favoring one eye over the other. Just a hunch, and I could be wrong, but receiving passes and throwing the ball at distance are the two times you need absolutely precise depth perception, and those are the two areas she seems to have regressed over the season.

Still. We nearly beat the spread and we had balanced scoring from 4 of our starters. Take the win against a bad matchup for us, and move on.

[2006alum]

We finished that game much better than we started, for all the reasons 81 said: we started hitting mid-range zone busters (thank you Demetre) and a lot of outside shots dropped (thank you Jump and Bosgana). And Norfolk St was unlikely to keep up that energy for 40 minutes when it was nearing midnight, body clock wise. 

Lepolo was superb on Johnson even though her offense was non-existent - and Norfolk St needed Johnson's offense much more than we needed Lepolo's, so I'll take that tradeoff every day. Did anyone notice how harsh their coach was to their players? He was pacing all over the floor and screaming at the ref. Johnson had one bad pass to a teammate and after she attempted a "my bad" hand slap to her teammate, the teammate rebuffed her, which she then pointed out to the coach. I got some bad vibes from their bench in a way that made me feel sort of bad for her, because she's a real gem of a player. 

I'll reiterate my hypothesis about Brink - I feel like her depth perception is off. Every once in a while she seems to completely misperceive where the ball is on a pass toher,  and it results in a TO or at least a really sloppy hand-off, and I feel like she's now back to twisting her body quite far to one side on free throws as she used to do in prior seasons, rather than squaring up, which makes me think she's favoring one eye over the other. Just a hunch, and I could be wrong, but receiving passes and throwing the ball at distance are the two times you need absolutely precise depth perception, and those are the two areas she seems to have regressed over the season.

Still. We nearly beat the spread and we had balanced scoring from 4 of our starters. Take the win against a bad matchup for us, and move on.