MBB: Oregon vs Stanford (Thu 6 PM ESPNU)

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FEB 25 (THU) 6 PM
STANFORD
STANFORD, CA
TV: ESPNU

[UOducksTK1]

Lose this one and Oregon is on the bubble. Maybe even on the outside looking in.

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Oregon looks much better tonight in the first half. Up 33-28 halfway through.

[greenyellow]

Slow, sloppy start for Oregon in the 2nd half. They need to wake up a bit, especially Richardson, who's yet to score tonight.

[UOducksTK1]

Slow, sloppy start for Oregon in the 2nd half. They need to wake up a bit, especially Richardson, who's yet to score tonight.

Us and Stanford are basically trading back and forth right now. We take turns being sloppy. Kinda bummer we can’t easily win this when they don’t have Silva. Oregon is down 4 with 11 minutes back.

[greenyellow]

Duarte is carrying this team tonight. Oregon really needs to tighten up on defense in these final few minutes if they want to pull this game out.

[ducks5ever]

Oregon wins it 71-68 but it's not a very convincing one. Stanford out one of their best players. Duarte puts the team on his back and takes a beating in the process - finger in the eye and headshot from a table. He's ok though. Not sure why he opted for a 3 on the last possession - maybe had to do with the table shot :3

[Phalanx]

Great win. This is a very underwhelming team since Dante went down, but they seem to pull out the close games more frequently than not. Probably the sign of a great coach.

[woundedknees]

Take the win, on to the next domino...

If Oregon gets through this stretch unscathed, I think it will be a major accomplishment.

Hope they have enough energy left for the conference tournament!

[GrantDuck]

Lawson played better tonight. Probably helped that Da Silva was out...

Duarte is a terrific player. Wish we just had 1 solid big man and this team would be pretty darn good.

[Everythingsducky]

Most odd minutes distribution so far this year. Starters all played 30+ minutes. Only Lawson played more than 6 minutes of any player off the bench. Mixed results, being they beat a team without its best player, and Richardson was not effective. Would like to see Duarte get himself involved earlier, but he was ridiculous tonight.

[whosyourwally]

I can’t figure Richardson out. I’ll give him a break, since he’s only a few weeks back from a big injury, but this is looks like year three of Richardson having no idea how good he actually is. He’s so hesitant to do anything, but when he does, it’s almost always a good thing. About as wide of a discrepancy between how good he is and how good he thinks he is as I’ve ever seen. At least in that direction.


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[UOducksTK1]

Duarte is this year's Pritchard. We've won a lot of close games because of him this year.

[GrantDuck]

Richardson is still working his way back. Confidence in your shot can change a lot of things and not being able to shoot for months can take that away quickly.

Besides, compare him to Hardy/Terry....

He made the winning pass against Arizona to Duarte and we just move the ball better with him in there.

[GrantDuck]

Most odd minutes distribution so far this year. Starters all played 30+ minutes. Only Lawson played more than 6 minutes of any player off the bench. Mixed results, being they beat a team without its best player, and Richardson was not effective. Would like to see Duarte get himself involved earlier, but he was ridiculous tonight.

Terry and Big Frank had 2-3 really awful defensive lapses each and Terry had 2 bad turnovers. Stanford's big run in the 2nd half was with those guys both in.

It'd be great to have a full season to work them in more, but we just don't have that luxury.

I think Terry can be a terrific player if he sticks it out in Eugene under Altman.