The Irish are coming off two consecutive losses after being identified as the #1 team in America. While I have no expectation for a UL upset of ND in South Bend today, it could be interesting if Arenas were to have the sort of contribution that she had on Thursday, while we have the sort of team performance that we have not seen all season; specifically where all 7 or 8 players contribute at the same time. Curry, Williams and Roberts are each capable of having the proverbial “A game”; they just need to do it in concert with one another. Harris and Cochran just need to rebound and play defense without fouling, and let the aforementioned be joined by Russell to score the points.
ND, huge task for our Ladies today
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I am not expecting an upset I am hoping for a respectable game but I would love an upset. ND coming off two losses in a row should have ND focused against us. I did watch the 2 games ND lost and they lost because their shots weren’t falling. Hildago herself had some air balls. However that being said ND will probably have bothering best shooting performance of the season.
In our game vs. ND at the YUM this year, we were down 1 at half. We were in a position to beat them but we shoot 30% in the second half with an especially bad 3Q when we were 4-17 FG's
-they killed us on the boards 44-29.
-Liatu King (16 pts, 12 rb) really hurt us. Only 6 ft., but very athletic and we just don't match up with her. Randolph had 10 rbs. for us, maybe she can match up w/King.
-Hidalgo drove at will, hopefully we have improved defensively and can slow her down. She's a brilliant player but gets a friendly whistle, like old school NBA.
-Curry had zero 3 pt attempts.
-We turned them over 23 times, will need similar effort today if we have any chance to win.
-they killed us on the boards 44-29.
-Liatu King (16 pts, 12 rb) really hurt us. Only 6 ft., but very athletic and we just don't match up with her. Randolph had 10 rbs. for us, maybe she can match up w/King.
-Hidalgo drove at will, hopefully we have improved defensively and can slow her down. She's a brilliant player but gets a friendly whistle, like old school NBA.
-Curry had zero 3 pt attempts.
-We turned them over 23 times, will need similar effort today if we have any chance to win.
Some really dumb TOs. For the life of me I do not understand why so many of our players pick up their dribble at the worst spots.
This camera action sucks they keep focusing on close ups of people instead the game.
If it was the freshman screwing up it would be one thing, but it’s our upper class
Not good our biggest outside scoring threat is out with an injury. Who is going to pick up the slack for Curry?
Down by 8 at half it could have been worse once Curry went out. We need to stop ND from driving the lane outside of Citron nobody else on ND is hitting anything from out side. I would at least try a zone and see how it works.
Agree. They are not going to win with the three. Ultimately, they have to score inside and draw fouls. If they can get inside and not throw the ball away, just drop the ball or brick a layup then that could help open shooters on the outside.
It was looking bad to start the 2nd half but then Curry drops two 3 pointers and we are back in the game. We have done a little better on stopping the dribble drive by ND. Let’s hope we can keep that up.
I agree we aren’t really getting much from our inside game. If someone else beside Curry was hitting from outside we could spread out the defense and get more inside shots.
I’m so tired of Cochrans inabilities athletically, it’s killing us because we have zero inside threat
I guess that 6’6” freshmen did transfer because the announcer just said Louisville has 8 freshmen. We used to have 9 freshmen
Probably just incorrect. She played the other day. She is a RS Fr vs a True FR. Maybe that is what they are saying.
Well it looks like the rout is on unless we can start playing like a team again. It doesn’t look like we are running any offensive sets now
Cochran’s been playing out of position ever since Liz Dixon graduated. It’s Walz fault for not signing a center that has been able to contribute.
No argument there. But she can’t consistently shoot or jump anywhere.
If I was CJW I would ask my team just don’t quit on me go out and give your all. It is obvious this game is over unless things drastically change. I don’t know what happened to Harris she used to be a strong inside player. She had a really great move to the left that was hard to defend she doesn’t use that to her advantage anymore.
I hope you’re right about Grace everything about her sounds good but we will see. If she is good she won’t have to worry about playing time.
We need to look for a good big in the transfer portal someone who has proven to be worthy of a scholarship. I am sure there are plenty who would transfer to an ACC school with the opportunity to play.
This has been an issue with Walz and I don’t know why.
I like our freshmen they show a lot of promise.
Agreed - there’s a lot to like about that group. In terms of bigs, Juffermans has looked a little more comfortable and effective here these last couple of games. Looking forward to seeing how she develops over the next year.
