Guard play is more critical at this level, and Stanford just doesn't have enough.
I’m not sure they had/have any. Jump is a nice 4th player on a team. Stanford (yes I know they have academic standards) just doesn’t have any guards to actually compete
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I was more impressed with Angel Reese than I expected to be. She's a very good basketball player who just can't score -- sort of like Draymond Green (in more ways than one).
I was more impressed with Angel Reese than I expected to be. She's a very good basketball player who just can't score -- sort of like Draymond Green (in more ways than one).
I expect LSU to take down Iowa.
LSU's post players are the key to winning. Iowa needs someone else besides Clark to score.
My only question is how chippy Iowa/LSU might get.
I'm sure the refs will be told to "let them play" with the hope of some drama.
OK, how exactly does that work? Does the head of officiating for the tournament call up the officials and say "We want you to officiate this game in such a way that there's lots of drama." Or do they say "Don't call any ticky-tack fouls" -- for this one, officials don't call what they feel are ticky-tack fouls, so that's a no-go.
Or "We don't want Caitlin Clark to foul out, so let her do things other players can't."
Conspiracy theories are nice, but how precisely do they work in practice? How are these communicated, and in such a way that these instructions are never, never, ever leaked. (For example, a ref who got those instructions five years ago is fired/not assigned and is upset enough to speak out. But that has never happened.)
And no one can predict how a game will play out. If everybody makes their shots, the game flows and the whistles don't blow as much. But if no one can make anything, there's contact all the time. It's not like the officials can control how a game plays out, and barring extreme measures, they cannot really control how physical it is. It's a contact sport, after all ...