In Reply to: Final posted by barrya on December 28, 2025 at 14:03:24
Seemed like our defensive intensity has continued to improve. On the other hand, we gave up a ton of open threes. If OSU hit 1/3 of their 3's, they'd have nine more points. We won by 7.
But, their shooting 28% on threes for the season, and they hit 28% tonight. Maybe that was the game plan, not to challenge their threes.
Lauren didn't go at any triple teams that I saw. That's good. Sienna went at a double team once and didn't score. She should hold off on that until she gets more settled in.
We cut our T/O's in half in the second half, Close must have made some kind of adjustment.
I'd take that Jaloni Cambridge over Booker or Latson (last season's scoring leader that tf'd to SoCaro). Booker and Latson can get to their spots, but so can Cambridge and her spot is a lot closer to the rim than Booker or Latson typically get. I'm wondering what their respective shooting %'s are, but don't have time to look them up. And, I think Cambridge is probably a better defender than either of them.
Overall stressful game for us, a good game for team development. Here's the scary statistic of the day: Early in the season OSU got smoked by UConn 100-68. OSU had 24 TO's to UConn's 13