*****Baylor vs Iowa Game Thread*****

BioHawk2

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I get she’s a freshman. I get the competition is tougher. But what have you seen that shows you she’s going to be great?

Rodrigues is a damn spaz on the court, but her athleticism shows. It’s easy to watch her and say, “she’ll be great once she plays under control.” Same with Ava a year ago. She flashed great touch and ability around the rim. She just needed time to become consistent.

I just don’t see anything from Deal.
I've seen her play in limited action over the course of 7 games. I would say I haven't seen enough of her to make any judgements about her potential for the future. I will say the fact she has only seen limited action is telling on it's own, though. I'm just going to give her time to figure it out.
 
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The Big Z

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Well you’re not saying anything with this post. Since you’re apparently the expert, answer the damn question. What should we expect to see from her fame going forward?
What do you want me to say? She’s a 5 star recruit! She has played against the best competition in both high school and AAU. Not sure if you know that but that’s how you get rated. Is she struggling? Yes. We played the number 7 team in the country who was really really good on defense. She played 4 freaking games. Grow up and quit being a child.
 

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It's good to win the ugly ones.
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AFM22

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What do you want me to say? She’s a 5 star recruit! She has played against the best competition in both high school and AAU. Not sure if you know that but that’s how you get rated. Is she struggling? Yes. We played the number 7 team in the country who was really really good on defense. She played 4 freaking games. Grow up and quit being a child.
She only saw 5 minutes but she had an assist, a rebound, and no turnovers.

Honestly, progress.
 

Demger

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Well, she's a freshmen and she's playing like a freshmen. That being said she looks very intimidated to me. She needs to get the confidence she is clearly lacking right now. Hopefully she gets it worked out over the course of the season.
and soon.
 

whynot?

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Stremlow giving 25 minutes off the bench with 12 points and no turnovers.

Unbelievable that we won this game.
At times it looked like a really bad adult team (Baylor) against a high school team (Iowa). Well, we won and that’s good, but we have so many things to improve.
Rodriguez and Deal need to stay on the court, even when they’re making mistakes. They need to reach the level they’re capable of reaching. We’re not going anywhere with Kylie and McCabe playing 25-30 minutes and scoring 5 points per game.
Who’s gonna play in your world?
 

whynot?

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Hannah was 4/11
Chit Chat was 1/6 before she got hurt
Taylor was 2/8
Kylie was 1/3 and fouled out
Emily was 2/9 and had 6 turnovers.
Addie and Layla didn't score

And we we still beat a Top 10 team.

Hard to think they will have a lot of games where 7/10 people in the rotation have below average games.
Coaching?
 

AFM22

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Don't look now, but Taylor McCabe played 35 minutes, and had 8 rebounds, the same amount of rebounds as Stuelke. Crazy. (only had 4 points but......). She really does appear to better defensively too.
Seemed like Baylor was game planning on stopping any transition scoring. So they would launch of a 3 and most would get back to defend, leaving pretty much whoever was closest (often McCabe) to clean up the rebound.
 

HoxSox

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She did put her defender in the dishwasher at the end there. I got dizzy watching it.
The two spin moves were a thing of beauty even if she had no idea what to do afterwards. Strangely enough it was her great basket in the open court and McCabe's subsequent steal of the inbounds pass that shocked the world. 2 happless players grabbed victory by the throat when it counted most
 

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The two spin moves were a thing of beauty even if she had no idea what to do afterwards. Strangely enough it was her great basket in the open court and McCabe's subsequent steal of the inbounds pass that shocked the world. 2 happless players grabbed victory by the throat when it counted most
If somehow that went in that'd be SC top 10.
 

whynot?

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Ugly wins are when you let some scrub team hang around too long and eke it out in the end. Ol' Doodle contends there is no such thing as an ugly win on a neutral court over a Top 10 team sitting 12 places higher in the rankings, no matter the manner in which said win was delivered.
This is correct, the team did what was necessary to come back and win.
 

Palmerhawk

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Stremlow is this team's sid vicious...saved the game.
Ava is a stud.
Mccabe is steady...and a vet.
ERod has game..just tame it.
Hannah ran into bigger ,longer athletes..will not be norm.
Addie has floor game..she will be fine.
Journey should have played more..she can deal with physical.

Get well,ChitChat. ...we need you.

Double win tonite..men and women..more chips and salsa for all!