Women's Final Four thread

[LongTimeListener]

Yeah, Stanford had a pretty good plan for keeping Griner at bay, but it involved Stanford making and Baylor missing open perimeter shots. The exact opposite is happening.

 

[MileHigh]

For a team that is 38-0, Kim Mulkey sure does ***** and whine at the officials -- on every ... single ... freakin' ... call ... against ... her ... team.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

It isn't necessary if you're Kim Mulkey. But with Brittney Griner scratched up more than a cat's toy, it's understandable that she feels she's fighting for her players. Think Griner doesn't see some rough play more than occasionally? Mulkey didn't defend Griner punching the kid from Texas Tech two years ago, and she didn't excuse Griner leaving the bench at the end of the Tennessee game.

Mulkey is working the officials, yes, but stops well before begging and seeking cheap excuses.

 

[Armchair_QB]

If that's what she wore for a semifinal game I shudder to think what Kim Mulkey will roll out on Tuesday night.

 

[MileHigh]

If that's what she wore for a semifinal game I shudder to think what Kim Mulkey will roll out on Tuesday night.

She should roll out with Pitino's Colonel Sanders outfit since he won't be donning it.

 

[Armchair_QB]

If that's what she wore for a semifinal game I shudder to think what Kim Mulkey will roll out on Tuesday night.

She should roll out with Pitino's Colonel Sanders outfit since he won't be donning it.

Nolan Richardson's red leather suit is tough to top but I'm thinking she will.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

If that's what she wore for a semifinal game I shudder to think what Kim Mulkey will roll out on Tuesday night.

She should roll out with Pitino's Colonel Sanders outfit since he won't be donning it.

Nolan Richardson's red leather suit is tough to top but I'm thinking she will.

Getting into a "top this" contest involving wardrobes and Kim Mulkey is a zero-sum game.

 

[MileHigh]

If that's what she wore for a semifinal game I shudder to think what Kim Mulkey will roll out on Tuesday night.

She should roll out with Pitino's Colonel Sanders outfit since he won't be donning it.

Nolan Richardson's red leather suit is tough to top but I'm thinking she will.

His clown suit in the 1995 title game would be hard to top.

 

[Chef2]

 

[Tarheel316]

Catching glimpses since it's here. Had lunch with a former co-worker who now works for the mothership and is here for the tournament.

One thing (OK, the biggest thing) I hate about the women's college game: No 10-second backcourt rule. Ridiculous.

I agree with this. It's also at the high school level here, and if anything, it turns the ends of some games into Hack-A-Shaq contests, since a lot of teams at the level I cover the most (D-II) can't hit free throws consistently.

Thirded. I could understand it when women first went to 5-on-5, and see the need for it in high school, but the talent from the college level up is strong enough where having it would improve the game.

The 30-second shot clock, it is surmised, eliminates the need for the 10-second backcourt violation. If it takes you 15 seconds to cross midcourt, you're basically going to have next-to-no time to get a decent shot.

Also, the 5-second closely-guarded count exists all over the floor, even in backcourt, so if you get trapped in backcourt, you're kinda screwed.

Horse hockey. Get it across like every other level, from second grade on up. There are states that have a shot clock and the 10-second rule -- in high school.

Agreed. As far as I'm concerned you can put an asterisk on the women's college game. Not having a 10-second violation is just plain stupid.

 

[linotype]

I'm more offended by the ridiculous paint jobs on the women's Final Four court. At least on the men's side, the courts at the past few Final Fours have been uniform and understated (Final Four logo at midcourt, free-throw-shooter's semicircle painted a color that matches the trim around the out-of-bounds line, maybe a stain inside the 3-point arc).

The women's court renders it unwatchable. Every year, it's something ridiculous out of the Oregon School of Court Design. Hate the stained Rocky Mountains on one sideline. Hated the 1950s Indiana lane markings last year in Indy. Hated the giant ****ing orange they stained onto 80 percent of the floor in Tampa/St Pete a few years back, as well as the huge guitar that covered the entire playing surface in Cleveland in 2007.

Hate it, hate it, hate it all.

 

[apeman33]

Shot clock super on the low bloc ... annoying! Did the WWL forget it's also in the scoreboard super?

The football scorebug and on field-graphic which both have down and distance information are puzzled by this statement.

 

[Tarheel316]

Lino, the women's game lags in popularity so they have to resort to gimmicks. The lack of a 10-second backcourt violation really hurts credibility too.

 

[apeman33]

Catching glimpses since it's here. Had lunch with a former co-worker who now works for the mothership and is here for the tournament.

One thing (OK, the biggest thing) I hate about the women's college game: No 10-second backcourt rule. Ridiculous.

I agree with this. It's also at the high school level here, and if anything, it turns the ends of some games into Hack-A-Shaq contests, since a lot of teams at the level I cover the most (D-II) can't hit free throws consistently.

Thirded. I could understand it when women first went to 5-on-5, and see the need for it in high school, but the talent from the college level up is strong enough where having it would improve the game.

The 30-second shot clock, it is surmised, eliminates the need for the 10-second backcourt violation. If it takes you 15 seconds to cross midcourt, you're basically going to have next-to-no time to get a decent shot.

Also, the 5-second closely-guarded count exists all over the floor, even in backcourt, so if you get trapped in backcourt, you're kinda screwed.

Horse hockey. Get it across like every other level, from second grade on up. There are states that have a shot clock and the 10-second rule -- in high school.

Agreed. As far as I'm concerned you can put an asterisk on the women's college game. Not having a 10-second violation is just plain stupid.

You should feel blessed that you haven't had to watch a junior-college women's mismatch. Watching a 3-25 team (and I've had to watch several 3-25 teams at this juco) play a 25-3 team can be painful because:
1) When the good team presses the hell out of the ****ty team, it takes them 17 seconds to get the ball into the front court.
2) Often, because they struggled so much just to get the ball into the front court, the ****ty team loses track of the shot clock, so that team hears the shot-clock buzzer go off and then wonders what the hell happened.

My guess is that early on in the history of college women's 5-on-5, the good teams were so far above the ****ty teams that the powers that be realized that there could be times where a team would never get the ball into the front court in just 10 seconds. And they used the 30-second shot clock to rationalize the lack of 10-second count. [/crackpot_theory]

 

[Football_Bat]

The women's game had a shot clock before the men's game did in the 1980s.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Notre Dame hanging in there, surprisingly.

 

[Boom_70]

Between the floor and Doris Burke over explaining every sequence this game is very distracting to watch.

 

[Della9250]

Griner going for 40-20?

 

[exmediahack]

Scott Wedman, Otis Birdsong and Phil Ford all approve of the "name below the number" look tonight.

 

[Boom_70]

Close your eyes and listen to Britteny Griener's voice . It sounds like a man