Honest John Law

https://hailstate.com/sports/womens-basketball/stats/2019-20#individual

We let this one slip away.

I don’t think Vic wanted us to foul as early
as we did in that last sequence with only
5 seconds left in the game. Let a few
seconds run off the clock and then foul.
Anyhow, Alabama ran a good play at the
end. I thought for sure we would have
put them away earlier on in this game.

I think her injury slowed her down a step.

https://hailstate.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster

Wiggins, Danberry, Espinoza-Hunter, Mingo-Young,
Matharu, Hemingway and Myah Taylor are listed as
guards.

Jackson, Carter and Bibby are listed as forwards.
Sidney Cooks is listed as a forward, but I think
she is sitting out this season as a transfer from
Michigan State.

Morris and Promise Taylor are listed as centers.

That tends to stretch the defense.

It is a pleasure to watch a team that’s coached this well.
Vic is arguably our best coach in any sport. Even when
they hit a rut, you figure they can work themselves out
of it. We have a young team and a deep team. The
future looks bright.

I watched the men’s game yesterday, and our defense
was atrocious. A&M has one of the worst scoring
offenses in all of NCAA Division 1 basketball. They
currently rank #335 as a team at less than 63 points
per game. Naturally, they torched us for 87 points.
I simply can not figure out what sort of team our
men’s team is. I don’t think it is an NCAA team.
We might have to win at least 5 more games to
make it.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketball-men/d1/current/team/145/p7

Keep pouring it on.

Hail State!

Things were looking iffy before the 4th quarter.
Well, it goes in the books as yet another "W".
We’ll take it.

Hail State!

We should be attacking the basket there.

That’s one reason why I detest playing man-to-man
so much. You can pick up a lot of cheap fouls.

We cut the lead down a bit.

As a side note, that sure is an empty arena.

If you didn’t, the last ~36 seconds of that game were
as chaotic as I can remember. We did so many things
wrong in that spurt that it was like the Keystone Cops.

Hail State!

… but the last ~36 seconds of that game was chaotic.
We were leading by 9 points with ~36 seconds to go,
and they scored 11 points in ~30 seconds. We made
so many mistakes over that last ~36 seconds that it
looked almost comical.

I would guess we need at least 4 more wins to go to
the Big Dance this season.

Hail State!

Nice way to start off a new season.

We play Auburn next.

They look unusually sloppy. They are in a rut.
Kentucky is also feeling it.

Kentucky has a line-up where I don’t think any
two of their players on the floor have the same
hair color. One is red, one is blue, one is blonde,
one looks brown, and one looks black.

Maybe we will take this contest.

This seems like the opposite of the men’s game
against Arky. It seems like Jones, for Arky, was
getting sent to the free-throw line all day long.

We need to slow her down.