No qualifications needed on this win I don’t think either. Have to keep snapping up wins as the games are presented to you regardless of who is or isn’t in the line up on either side. They need to come home and take care of business and I absolutely agree with coach T, they do that – they can split the games on the very tough roady and come home feeling pretty good about where they stand. Do better than 2-2 on the trip and It’s gravy.
Horrid offensive start to the game. Again, like Saturday they reached back and found some defense to keep themselves in it despite the cold offense. Nice to know that the bus with the offense finally arrived and they lit it up (relatively speaking) the rest of the way. Very nice to see Brunson’s game return, they need to keep her going. Solid game from Haynie and Maiga. If they can refocus Buescher and have her AND Brunson AND a resurgent Walker AND Yo clicking at the same time? I’m liking it.
There was a point in the 3rd that I made note of as Seattle made a run to close the gap to I believe 6, the offense had stalled and coach brought in Walker and ran the high post through her and that seemed to get them back on track. I had it down as at least a 6-0 run following her entry but it could have been more since I had to turn my attention somewhere else for a bit during that stretch. Shoot, I don’t quite have my notes marked right so I’m not sure what the run was, but it seemed for sure to me that the complexion of the offense changed when she came in. There was also a pivotal shot clock violation that the Monarchs forced in the 3rd that I also was tracking the effects of and I can’t remember which asterisk was which in my notes – but another Monarchs run followed that point too.
Hysterical conversation with Haynie afterwards. They throw out the 0-13 from the floor stat and then start talking about another subject and Haynie comes back to that topic and says “we started 0 for 13 or whatever” Koz says…”there was no whatever about it, you all were 0 for 13” Haynie “we were??? I thought you were making that up…that’s pretty bad”
C’mon ladies…get it done and create more space!!!
