setshot said:

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Just got back to the computer, Gust.
The threes were indeed dropping, as you predicted. I bow in the direction of Texas and you and RealLarryDon.
I will not again question your wisdom.. Vegas has no doubt banned you from their betting tables.

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Please don't feed the trolls. One of these geniuses could have picked against the Lady Bears 35 times this year and they would have been right twice. (BTW, I know your response was tongue-in-cheek, setshot.)

Chou being injured and still not 100% healthy took away a very reliable 3 point threat tonight and Juicy (best 3 pt avg) was completely shut down. When Alexis finally made a couple 3's it was too little too late.

As I posted elsewhere, trading twos for threes is not advantageous, but if Baylor had made the twos that they normally make, they would have won. Alexis alone missed four in the first half, and both Lauren and Kalani missed some that they would love to have back. Cohen often misses too many down there and she missed a couple of wide open shots under the basket tonight.

I watched OSU get blown out in a PAC 12 game this season. They were not shooting threes like they did tonight. They are a very good team and a very difficult matchup for a lot of teams, Baylor obviously being one of them. Gulich probably should have been doubled when she received the ball in the paint, but not from the corner defender. The way they were shooting tonight the better option was from a defender out on top.

We did a lot of the same thing against Texas and Michigan when they tried to pack it in, but in those instances we were shooting from the corner and hitting, Wallace and Landrum in particular. A little of that would have gone a long way tonight.

setshot said:

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As I posted elsewhere, trading twos for threes is not advantageous, but if Baylor had made the twos that they normally make, they would have won. Alexis alone missed four in the first half, and both Lauren and Kalani missed some that they would love to have back. Cohen often misses too many down there and she missed a couple of wide open shots under the basket tonight.

I watched OSU get blown out in a PAC 12 game this season. They were not shooting threes like they did tonight. They are a very good team and a very difficult matchup for a lot of teams, Baylor obviously being one of them. Gulich probably should have been doubled when she received the ball in the paint, but not from the corner defender. The way they were shooting tonight the better option was from a defender out on top.

We did a lot of the same thing against Texas and Michigan when they tried to pack it in, but in those instances we were shooting from the corner and hitting, Wallace and Landrum in particular. A little of that would have gone a long way tonight.

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It's basketball. I know of no other sport where the unexpected should be the expected. Nothing is automatic regardless of whatever names are on the roster. Even the pros have nights where they just aren't themselves. They get a second or third or fourth chance to make it right and usually the best team prevails in the series. In our world we don't. It is a one-shot deal. It is painful to lose when everything says you should win. The "agony of defeat" is usually more dramatic than the "thrill of victory", and certainly is more frequent in life.

I can look back to 2005. If we had played LSU 10 times, we might have won two of those. Fortunately that night in Indy was our night. There have been other years where we were the supposedly weaker team and things went our way. Tonight they didn't. Perhaps it was mental fatigue. I don't know. They just didn't look like they had the fire. Someone else described it as hitting the wall. Perhaps they did. I don't think we'll ever know. We all get to that point at times in our life. Anyone that denies that is being dishonest. Hopefully we won't be in such a situation in the future with our roster and the off the court events with which the team had to deal.

I find that many of the comments of our two village idiots (perhaps more than two) are more efforts toward directing attention to themselves, as it usually is the case. I have seen similar comments from posters I have never seen before. All I can say is appreciate what you have while we have it, and what we have is a great outlook for the upcoming years for this program. But nothing is guaranteed. We all know how fleeting and fragile a top status in college sports can be and can be wiped out in an instant with something coming completely out of the blue for which we have no control. I sure you know to what I am referring.

Once again this team accomplished something that all but 15 other teams did not accomplish. That should not be discounted because we had a night where we couldn't hit the ocean from 3 feet.

The thing is, even with our bad jump shooting and not locking down the perimeter, we still should have won except for unforced errors. We left at least 8 points on the floor from missed layups and botched fast breaks. Not sure if it was nerves or what but there were some really unfortunate mishaps that we just don't usually see, even from the freshmen.