[81alum]

Doing postmortems is not that much fun. 

But in reflecting on this season, we did far better than most observers would have predicted after losing Kayla and Jeanette.  And we have seen some outstanding development of talent over the year.

I have to put Nneka's performances over the last four years down as among the most entertaining and exciting I have ever seen in any Stanford sport.  I shall miss her.

In this particular game, I think Tara had a brilliant defensive strategy that was somewhat ruined by the officiating--but it would have been enough to win had our offensive plan been equally creative.

If we shot the 3 as well as we have in previous seasons, we could well have won this game.  11.8% is particularly bad, but Stanford has been a team that season after season makes threes at a 35-38% rate.  We have been a sub-par three point team all season and it hurt us badly in this game as well.

I also noticed many other shots that we routinely make coming out of the basket almost as if a Baylor fan had a rubber cord attached to the ball.  Shooting 33.3% was horrible, and it mostly was not Griner that was causing it. 

Too bad.  I got the feeling that this game, like Connecticut, was a winnable game.  But a couple of losses will not take away the scores of hours of happy times that Nneka and this year's team have given me.  I will remember this season with affection.

Question:  What happened to Taylor?

[81alum]

Doing postmortems is not that much fun. 

But in reflecting on this season, we did far better than most observers would have predicted after losing Kayla and Jeanette.  And we have seen some outstanding development of talent over the year.

I have to put Nneka's performances over the last four years down as among the most entertaining and exciting I have ever seen in any Stanford sport.  I shall miss her.

In this particular game, I think Tara had a brilliant defensive strategy that was somewhat ruined by the officiating--but it would have been enough to win had our offensive plan been equally creative.

If we shot the 3 as well as we have in previous seasons, we could well have won this game.  11.8% is particularly bad, but Stanford has been a team that season after season makes threes at a 35-38% rate.  We have been a sub-par three point team all season and it hurt us badly in this game as well.

I also noticed many other shots that we routinely make coming out of the basket almost as if a Baylor fan had a rubber cord attached to the ball.  Shooting 33.3% was horrible, and it mostly was not Griner that was causing it. 

Too bad.  I got the feeling that this game, like Connecticut, was a winnable game.  But a couple of losses will not take away the scores of hours of happy times that Nneka and this year's team have given me.  I will remember this season with affection.

Question:  What happened to Taylor?

[washingtonismoney]

If we shot the 3 as well as we have in previous seasons, we could well have won this game.  11.8% is particularly bad, but Stanford has been a team that season after season makes threes at a 35-38% rate.  We have been a sub-par three point team all season and it hurt us badly in this game as well.

I don't know that the disparity had to be quite that bad, but I wouldn't be surprised, given the quality of threes attempted, if the shooting were be quite bad in most scenarios. A lot of those threes were heaves at the end of possessions, and we don't have the players/mentality to (relatively) thrive in such situations.

[washingtonismoney]

If we shot the 3 as well as we have in previous seasons, we could well have won this game.  11.8% is particularly bad, but Stanford has been a team that season after season makes threes at a 35-38% rate.  We have been a sub-par three point team all season and it hurt us badly in this game as well.

I don't know that the disparity had to be quite that bad, but I wouldn't be surprised, given the quality of threes attempted, if the shooting were be quite bad in most scenarios. A lot of those threes were heaves at the end of possessions, and we don't have the players/mentality to (relatively) thrive in such situations.