Tough first half...

[Falconfreak90]

But we're still in this...tsun has been playing excellent D. And you know who has been on fire...

Gotta dig deeper in the 2nd...GO FALCONS!!!!! Justinger is fun to watch!

[Dayons_Den]

Stroh looks great on ESPN3!

I hope Steffen injury isn't too bad.

Time to step up Falcons!

[Falconfreak90]

ut's team D is unrelenting...they are damn good. BG had a poor shooting day...

[HoopsFan]

Well, I just saw Roos get outcoached. WTF is she doing out there? You don't win games by hoping your players come to life, you make substitutions that make things happen. Miriam, honey, SHOOT THE BALL! Dinking around until there are less than 10 seconds on the shot clock isn't going to get you the best shot selection. What was Salinas doing on the bench in the second half? Sure, Hafhill had a good second half, but only because the ball was in her hands with the shot clock winding down. This was out-and-out poor play calling on the part of the coach.

Wow.

HoopsFan

[falconwomenbball]

Well, I just saw Roos get outcoached. WTF is she doing out there? You don't win games by hoping your players come to life, you make substitutions that make things happen. Miriam, honey, SHOOT THE BALL! Dinking around until there are less than 10 seconds on the shot clock isn't going to get you the best shot selection. What was Salinas doing on the bench in the second half? Sure, Hafhill had a good second half, but only because the ball was in her hands with the shot clock winding down. This was out-and-out poor play calling on the part of the coach.

Wow.

HoopsFan

I disagree. How do you know if she would have made those substitutions that it would have been different? And if they didn't work you would be complaining about the fact that Coach Roos kept the starters on the bench. We shot badly. Missed a lot of shots we would normally make. Missed 8 foul shots. We're down 1 with just under 4 minutes to play. As a coach you are going to go with the players you have the most trust in. Who else would have substituted into the game? At what position? Jasmine Matthews is hurt. She has had a re-occurance of her stress fracture. Do you bench Lex? Chrissy? Danielle? Both BG and UT are probably the 2 best defensive teams in the conference. We're 1-1 in the MAC. 14 games to go. Toledo is 1-1 also. Let's see what happens the rest of the season.

[AyZiggy97]

Well, I just saw Roos get outcoached. WTF is she doing out there? You don't win games by hoping your players come to life, you make substitutions that make things happen. Miriam, honey, SHOOT THE BALL! Dinking around until there are less than 10 seconds on the shot clock isn't going to get you the best shot selection. What was Salinas doing on the bench in the second half? Sure, Hafhill had a good second half, but only because the ball was in her hands with the shot clock winding down. This was out-and-out poor play calling on the part of the coach.

Wow.

HoopsFan

I disagree. How do you know if she would have made those substitutions that it would have been different? And if they didn't work you would be complaining about the fact that Coach Roos kept the starters on the bench. We shot badly. Missed a lot of shots we would normally make. Missed 8 foul shots. We're down 1 with just under 4 minutes to play. As a coach you are going to go with the players you have the most trust in. Who else would have substituted into the game? At what position? Jasmine Matthews is hurt. She has had a re-occurance of her stress fracture. Do you bench Lex? Chrissy? Danielle? Both BG and UT are probably the 2 best defensive teams in the conference. We're 1-1 in the MAC. 14 games to go. Toledo is 1-1 also. Let's see what happens the rest of the season.

Yeah. That being out coached thing is pretty inaccurate. BG got some good shots that were just flat out missed. More than a few of them could have been called blocking fouls. Although the Falcons didn't really help themselves at the line either. It was a three point game and then their point guard hit that wing-and-a-prayer job. For them to be that close with Rogers, Havel, and Steffen having missed 21 of their 25 shots is actually remarkable.

[ccollin13]

Well, I just saw Roos get outcoached. WTF is she doing out there? You don't win games by hoping your players come to life, you make substitutions that make things happen. Miriam, honey, SHOOT THE BALL! Dinking around until there are less than 10 seconds on the shot clock isn't going to get you the best shot selection. What was Salinas doing on the bench in the second half? Sure, Hafhill had a good second half, but only because the ball was in her hands with the shot clock winding down. This was out-and-out poor play calling on the part of the coach.

Wow.

HoopsFan

I do agree with the Salinas comment. When Salinas, Hoekstra, and Justinger were on the floor together at the end of the second half, we climbed back a large deficit to almost tie the game before halftime. At the same time, Halfhill was the only player consistently scoring. Which one do you choose? Maybe I'm biased because I really like Salinas, but I'd like to see her play more.

I could say lots more about the game, but I guess I'll just stick with this thought. That ankle injury to Steffan looked pretty scary - she was visibly upset by it and it looked like it hurt a lot. What a huge gut-check by her to play nearly all the second half.

[HoopsFan]

So liet's see. Starters, except Halfhill, go 5-30, Salinas plays 5 minutes in the first half where BG erases 8 points of an 11 point deficit, and she sees one minute in the second half?
Justinger stopped shooting again, and everybody can't be like Naama but isn't the point of the BG offense to drive the lane and dish to someone on the wing to take a shot? We have perimiter players dribbling but not shooting and we're trying to take extra passes with the clock winding down.

I think Salinas seems to be a better point guard than Halfhill, but not so that we'd ever get the chance to see it. Halfhill was the 2nd point guard last season. splitting her time last season with Slagel and Yoder, and averaged 13 minutes a game. It's not unreasonable for her to split time with Salinas, or Salinas to get 13-15 minutes per game instead of SIX.

[h2oville rocket]

If Salinas was the one with the tats she certainly seemed to bring a lot of energy when she was in. I was surprised we didn't see her much in the second half. Ball movement seemed a little crisper when she was in and she appeared to be pretty confident. another great Rocket-Falcon game-the ten point spread belies how close it was. Looked like UT had a little more left in the tank at the end as the shorter Rockets were grabbing board after board.

[falconwomenbball]

So liet's see. Starters, except Halfhill, go 5-30, Salinas plays 5 minutes in the first half where BG erases 8 points of an 11 point deficit, and she sees one minute in the second half?
Justinger stopped shooting again, and everybody can't be like Naama but isn't the point of the BG offense to drive the lane and dish to someone on the wing to take a shot? We have perimiter players dribbling but not shooting and we're trying to take extra passes with the clock winding down.

I think Salinas seems to be a better point guard than Halfhill, but not so that we'd ever get the chance to see it. Halfhill was the 2nd point guard last season. splitting her time last season with Slagel and Yoder, and averaged 13 minutes a game. It's not unreasonable for her to split time with Salinas, or Salinas to get 13-15 minutes per game instead of SIX.

I like Katrina as a point guard too. But does she know the offense well enough to get more minutes? We don't see them in practice everyday. You mean you are just ready to sit Chrissy, Lex and Danielle because they were having a tough shooting night. Jillian sat behind Jess last year. She started the first 5 or 6 games until Curt decided that the better line-up had Jess at point. Yoder didn't play much point guard, Logan Pastor played more minutes at point guard than Yoder did. Do we know the specific type of offense Coach Roos is using this year? Could it be that the coaching staff knows more about the team than you or I do?
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

[Falconfreak90]

ut let NOTHING in down in the post. I mean NOTHING. I was happy to be down 3 at the half as badly as we shot. There at the end, it seemed like ut out hustled us to every loose ball and rebound. I really hope we get another shot at them. Why the hell don't we play ut twice a year in both men and women's hoops? Yeah the division stuff but can't we use a non conf game to play twice? These BG-ut games on the women's side are too freaking good and entertaining to play once a year..unless we run into each other in the tourney.

And I like Salinas a lot...

[Rocket_Fanatic]

I agree. Too bad we can't play once at each others gyms each year. This has to be one of the best WBB rivalries in the country.

[h2oville rocket]

I agree. Too bad we can't play once at each others gyms each year. This has to be one of the best WBB rivalries in the country.

ESPN magazine has a lengthy article on the game comparing the rivalry to Stanford-Cal. Focuses on Naama Shafir but says plenty about the rivalry and how brutal this game was. Freak, don't know if you were there or watched on tv but your comment was dead-on. It was a scrum in the post both ways. Yo Richardson takes ONE shot? Are you kidding me? Rogers makes two of a dozen or so? That's two All-MAC types contributing bssically no offense. The defensive intensity was amazing. Crowd was short on numbers for one this big but pretty much got into it. Great game for TV.

[Class of 61]

"SHORT on numbers?" 3327 folks for a women's BB game on a Sunday afternoon? Yeah, it doesn't match the overall crowds that UT can draw...but honestly, aren't we comparing a large city vs small town? I was there for the whole weekend...and after suffering thru the guys game, despite the last seconds win, I was looking forward to the women's game....Neither team impressed offensively, but it was absolutely BRUTAL in the paint! Don't know if I've ever seen so many people on the floor (literally) as in this game.
For what it's worth, Naama is one heck of a player; without her on Sunday, it was a totally different game. 23pts. yes, but some neat assists and even an outstanding block on a 6' wing player's shot. She DOES get away with a lot of traveling calls, perhaps respect from officials?

[Bubba Bo Bob Brain]

It bothers me to see our team getting poked, gouged, elbowed, grabbed, body bumped, shoved, etc. with so little of it being called.
Am I so blind I don't notice our team doing it so much?

I saw sloppy passing. I saw the ball not go in as often as we would have wanted or even expected.
But what I DIDN'T see was our team expecting one player to outscore the rest of the team, and I will always respect that.