Game thread 11/25/21 - vs #22 West Virginia 5 PM
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I won’t be watching live (FloHoops????) either but will listen to streaming broadcast.
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Lost 65-57. The reserves really carried them. Good games by Moore (13) and Woltman (9). Madison still in a slump.....and that's a killer.....I think she had maybe 6 or 7 points. Hardin hit a few threes and had 12 or so.
Wow, Kyle with ZERO pts & rebs in less than 5 mins. I know she had 3 PFs but sounds like KG was not happy with her.
Likewise Ellis with zero points, 3 rebs and 3 assists in just over 14 mins.
Weird. Wonder what KG was thinking?
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Looking at the pxp. RK had two fouls in the first 2:11 of 1Q and got her third 18 seconds into 3Q
I'm sure she's really disappointed. This looks like it was a winnable game. It would have been a big one too. If they would have got something from their Big 3....Layden, Ellis and Kyle.
Hopefully they can bounce back quickly Saturday morning against another ranked opponent.
I just read dubjell’s write-up of the game on the H&R site. Sounds like they played with a lot of heart and energy, and had a chance…. But 24 TO’s and stretches of cold shooting are hard to overcome.
It’s a rebuilding year for sure. Easy to get unrealistically hopeful when they exceed expectations (guilty). But If they sustain the effort and reflect the coach’s persona, things will trend positive.
It’s a rebuilding year for sure. Easy to get unrealistically hopeful when they exceed expectations (guilty). But If they sustain the effort and reflect the coach’s persona, things will trend positive.
Agree, like Painter's first year when he took over a sagging program, we want to see that effort and competitiveness. Right now, if we can win some of the more winnable pre-season games, I can see only 6 teams in BT that are probably likely losses. Thus, we can win enough maybe to make the NIT which would be a great goal. So far I am very happy seeing the team play hard. Last year it became almost unwatchable. Katie has at least made it exciting.
So you never put her in when you get to the 4th Q even though she only had 3 PF? Sounds to me like Coach was frustrated with her.
But what do I know… maybe she was ill or injured?
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I'm going to speculate that CKG sends messages through the bench. I've noticed a couple of times this season that she's pulled Ellis very early in the game and it appeared not to be planned or due to injury or anything. My theory in both instances was that perhaps she was not doing something that she had been instructed to do. I would guess the same was true yesterday of Kyle although I did not see the game. We need her in the game but if she doesn't learn how to defend without fouling, we're not going to be able to count on her on a game-to-game basis. Like I said, I don't know what her three fouls looked like but she's had issues with staying vertical and not bringing her arms down to try to block shots. If those were what those fouls looked like, perhaps that's Coach trying to enforce the message. Again, this is all based on my speculation from watching every game this season until yesterday.
I thought we could compete, whether we would or not I wasn't sure. I wouldn't have thought we'd be that competitive given what we got from Ellis/Kyle/Layden yesterday. If they keep competing like that, they'll have their days.
Kyle had to be banged up I would think. She’s played well lately, no way she only gets 5 minutes if she was healthy. I get the early foul trouble, however, unless she mouthed off I can’t see her only logging 5 minutes.
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