RU vs Princeton Game thread 12/15/22

[ScarletteK80]

12/15/22, 7pm, RAC. OK ladies, I am home sick as a dog. I'll be watching on BTN+
Please give our neighbors to the south a good beating. Please! They are a good team btw.

 

[ScarletteK80]

Just checked their roster out. They have 15 bodies to play with, sigh,

 

[RUcrazee]

Hope our ladies can take a step forward tonight. They really fought hard against Ohio St a couple weeks ago. It looked like they took a step back against Illinois and Hampton. They kinda looked worn down for stretches during the Illinois game, especially Kai. She needs someone to spell her more often at pg.

Hopefully they come fresh and ready to go, for 40 minutes tonight. Gonna need it against this Princeton team. They were relentless against UConn.

 

[hoquat63]

I think it will be a long night - PU is pretty good team. Hope not, hopefully it will be worth coming out in the rain to be here

 

[ScarletteK80]

You are a Saint Hoquat.

 

[ScarletteK80]

10-4 Prin. middle of 1st.

 

[ScarletteK80]

10-9 3 for bates, steal and Smikle gets it in. RU 11-10.

 

[ScarletteK80]

14-12 RU on a beautiful drive by Awa.

 

[ScarletteK80]

14 all, end of one.

 

[hoquat63]

14-14after 1 -too many to 7

 

[ScarletteK80]

19-17 RU up. Lots of to's both sides.

 

[hoquat63]

You are a Saint Hoquat.

Not really - only live 6 miles from RAC

 

[MADHAT1]

Kaylene ( according to box score) looks like she's doing all the damage
a great game, so far

 

[MADHAT1]

32-22 RU

 

[ScarletteK80]

32-22 RU up at the half!!! Smikle with 16 points.

 

[hoquat63]

16 points some nice drives and some treys plus. 2 foul shots

 

[ScarletteK80]

When Smikle plays like this it is a thing of beauty.

 

[hoquat63]

Game changed when we switched from zone to man defense eay first

 

[MADHAT1]

Up 10 at half gives a nice feeling

 

[hoquat63]

Shooting 50% to 23% for PU, over 50% on 3s 25% for PU. RU +2 on rebounds, -3 on turnovers

 

[RUcrazee]

Game changed when we switched from zone to man defense eay first

Yes. We had to get out of the zone. They would have been up by 30 if we hadn't.
That has been our problem in recent years. We tried to stay in that half court match up zone defense only to fall down by a lot of points early.

Glad to see Coquese make that adjustment so quickly.

 

[RUcrazee]

Now we just have to hope the refs don't get cute on us in the second half. The last foul on Awa was a little o' nothing IMO.

 

[RUcrazee]

Here comes the moment of truth....

Are we ready to take a step forward??? I think it's safe to say, here comes the full court press. And Princeton does it well. Can we break it with good passes and make them pay???

We'll see shortly.

 

[ScarletteK80]

39-28 RU.

 

[ScarletteK80]

Smikle with 18 already.

 

[ScarletteK80]

Princeton with 3 3's in a row. only down by 2 now.

 

[RUcrazee]

Didn't even need a press.

And why are we back in the zone??

 

[MADHAT1]

too close for comfort 41-41

 

[RUcrazee]

Playing zone against them is just giving away open threes.
They pass it too well

 

[RUcrazee]

Too much oneon one

 

[RUcrazee]

Yes Dominique just said the same thing. First half, it was the extra pass that made the diff

 

[ScarletteK80]

47-44 Prin end of 3rd. We look tired.

 

[MADHAT1]

47-44 Prin end of 3rd. We look tired.

was going to ask just that, how the players looked

 

[RUcrazee]

They just don't have a good set of offensive plays where they don't have to do it by one on one moves. That's why they keep traveling. They are trying to force drives that aren't there.

 

[RUcrazee]

No running people off of screens to get teammates open shots.

They are working extremely hard in one on one moves and forgetting they have teammates to work with.

 

[ScarletteK80]

The huge amount of to's is directly related to being tired.

 

[MADHAT1]

looks like RU won't be holding that Tiger.
Princeton seems to be pulling ahead

 

[RUcrazee]

It actually is the perfect offensive strategy for the team that we had last year. Several players that were good at one on one in a spread out half court. It doesn't suit this years team outside of Smikle.

 

[MADHAT1]

since the half Princeton has scored 30 to RU'S 14

 

[hoquat63]

From up 10 to down 10. Oh well, first half was fun