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Post by fightsd on Mar 5, 2023 14:42:57 GMT -6
Need birthdays. For everyone from HC on down. Need to go to the portal. |
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Post by sdyotefan on Mar 5, 2023 15:18:11 GMT -6
ORU is an excellent offensive team averaging over 80 per game and today they played a lot of good D as well which would it hard for any team to beat them!
Thr announcers reminded everyone in Dec they lost in bunnytown 80-82.
Yes the Lady Yotes could have played better which a fan sounds easy. OR was hitting a lot of shots and getting more than their fair share of good bounces so let's over zealous on "the sky is falling!" Starting a soph and two freshmen is challenging! Next season will be much better!
And I'm guessing OR was tired of losing to USD 19-0!
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Post by dbyote on Mar 5, 2023 15:28:47 GMT -6
Need birthdays. For everyone from HC on down. Need to go to the portal. And hope we don't lose pieces to the portal. There are rumors in Vermillion that Grace is thinking about getting out. I'm not sure how reputable the source is. |
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Mar 5, 2023 15:37:37 GMT -6
Yeah, why would you want to be the absolute focal point of an entire team with essentially no limits on what you get to do offensively.
Maybe you could transfer to a high major and come off the bench and score 7 points per game. Makes sense.
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Post by fightsd on Mar 5, 2023 16:12:01 GMT -6
Need to go to the portal. And hope we don't lose pieces to the portal. There are rumors in Vermillion that Grace is thinking about getting out. I'm not sure how reputable the source is. If Grace leaves, Kayla's tenure could be short-lived. Without Grace, next year's team won't be any better than what we saw today. |
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Post by elcoyote on Mar 5, 2023 18:16:07 GMT -6
That game was honestly a good representation of this season. Slow start, picked up toward the middle and then collapsed. I hope we made the right decisions with this staff because I’m looking at ORUs new one and they’re gonna be a force soon. Seven players saw the floor for ORU today: 1 sophomore, 1 junior, 2 seniors and 3 grad students. The Titan's "soon" might be the next few days. |
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Post by yote18 on Mar 5, 2023 20:16:34 GMT -6
That game was honestly a good representation of this season. Slow start, picked up toward the middle and then collapsed. I hope we made the right decisions with this staff because I’m looking at ORUs new one and they’re gonna be a force soon. Seven players saw the floor for ORU today: 1 sophomore, 1 junior, 2 seniors and 3 grad students. The Titan's "soon" might be the next few days. no doubt next years gonna be a “build” year but she’s a proven coach who did really well at the d2 level. Jacks are gonna have yo play well tomorrow, she has that team playing with confidence and are bought into her system at the right time. |
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Post by fanatic on Mar 5, 2023 20:26:02 GMT -6
Yotes had won 19 straight against the until today. Sad.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Mar 5, 2023 20:34:38 GMT -6
Yotes had won 19 straight against the until today. Sad. Yeah, a .950 win percentage is really something to cry about. |
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Post by easmus on Mar 6, 2023 7:26:24 GMT -6
Good start to the second half! Because they backed off the press. As soon as they ramped it back up, we were toast again. |
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Post by kiyoat on Mar 6, 2023 8:27:29 GMT -6
Good start to the second half! Because they backed off the press. As soon as they ramped it back up, we were toast again. This was the most disappointing part for me. Remember in the 2021 NCAA, where Oregon leveraged their length and athleticism advantage over us to great effect, pressing and trapping in the first quarter? We played well down the stretch, but the gap was too big at that point. Then Dawn (or one of the players, I don't' remember which) said in an interview that they had made breaking the press a point of emphasis in the offseason. It really showed in that 2021-22 season when we played Power-5 teams that thought they could just bully us. I saw it multiple times through that season, how well the passing, awareness and cool-headedness was (is that a word?). Fast forward to this year, and it seems that our players have forgotten it. Or maybe its just one of those things that has to be constantly reinforced by the coaches? I don't know, but its disappointing. |
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Post by easmus on Mar 6, 2023 9:19:19 GMT -6
I think there are a couple variables from yesterday and the season.
This was almost an entirely new team. Larkins is obviously the best player, but her role this year vs last is a night & day difference.
The injuries were massive. Losing Bergstrom before the season. Mazurek still not back, Pep hurt in offseason, Grange & Ugofsky hurt in season. That’s a lot of minutes lost.
I am old enough to remember Dawn’s 1st season where we got beat 1st round against Omaha. We basically played that season with 6 players. So there’s a parallel here, but the biggest difference is the HC experience gap. We did not look well prepared yesterday. Have we never practiced to beat a press? My gosh that was bad.
A lot of learning from everyone this season. We better see some growth next year.
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Post by 90yote on Mar 6, 2023 9:23:47 GMT -6
Well, obviously that wasn't good. Nobody should say they're surprised about losing. I was disappointed at the way they went about that first half. They were passive, and they looked scared. That changed in the 2nd half, but the damage was done. Turnovers led to buckets and it allowed them to set up their press. Cooper got going...they had contained her pretty well in the prior two games but once a scorer gets going, it's tough.
They looked like a very young team that only had one player who had played meaningful minutes on that floor. My season-ticket partner was really worried about that before the game, more so than I was. Guess he was right.
And I'll continue to remind people that unless we have a couple players leaving in the portal, there is not any room for bringing in more than one player. I can definitely see them trying to bring in a grad transfer post, or at least someone with length. But not much beyond that without others leaving.
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Post by yote18 on Mar 6, 2023 9:54:10 GMT -6
We were ill prepared for the game and it was obvious. But what’s also very noticeable is that this team, for whatever reason, doesn’t play as a team and have that same energy that other teams have. Yes winning helps fuel that, but theres an overall lack of confidence from the top down which is causing the mental loss before the game even begins.
Side tangent, I’m a critic of coaches (don’t come at me I’ve acknowledged it before) but we cannot solely blame Kayla for lack of preparedness. With her being a first year HC there’s some things that she’s gotta learn and game plans are one of them. I will lay blame on her assistants though who are not new to the coaching game. The coaching staff from every instance I’ve watched do not mesh well which is causing some of this ill preparedness.
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Post by Men's League Waterboy on Mar 6, 2023 10:15:26 GMT -6
Because they backed off the press. As soon as they ramped it back up, we were toast again. This was the most disappointing part for me. Remember in the 2021 NCAA, where Oregon leveraged their length and athleticism advantage over us to great effect, pressing and trapping in the first quarter? We played well down the stretch, but the gap was too big at that point. Then Dawn (or one of the players, I don't' remember which) said in an interview that they had made breaking the press a point of emphasis in the offseason. It really showed in that 2021-22 season when we played Power-5 teams that thought they could just bully us. I saw it multiple times through that season, how well the passing, awareness and cool-headedness was (is that a word?). Fast forward to this year, and it seems that our players have forgotten it. Or maybe its just one of those things that has to be constantly reinforced by the coaches? I don't know, but its disappointing. It's because the players who got their asses kicked by Oregon WERE SENIORS who had seen everything a mid-major could possibly see by that point and then got another year of eligibility after that. There is no substitute for talented experience. All the coaching in the world can't slow the game down for a kid. They can tell you what's coming. They can draw it for you. Until that size and weight and speed is on your ass, it doesn't much matter. And if you're still trying to find yourself as a player, and you've got essentially a whole (eight-person) team trying to gain that experience and mold their own talents and find themselves as college players all the coaching in the world isn't going to make much of a difference. |
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