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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4520225, member: 27"]
Some quick thoughts…

Hyman is terrific passing the ball at the high post.  She set up a lot of easy layups throughout the game from there, almost all in half court sets, most no lookers.

Woolley is a really good player.  She gets a lot of steals and deflections.  I think SU opened in man (person to person?) and it got lit up.  We moved to a zone but I think it was a 1-3-1.  Woolley was put up top and she disrupted their offense big time.

On offense, she can drive and either dish or throw a floater up.  She can shoot from the outside and make mid range jumpers.  She does a lot of things to help the team win.

Fair is a great scorer prone to long hot and close spells.  When she gets hot, she is capable of doing massive damage.  The team as a whole is also prone to extended hot and cold periods, which is largely attributable to Fair’s wild up and down play.

SU dominated the boards and in the end, that seemed to be the biggest determining factor in who won.  Great team effort here.  Props to the SU bigs, who don’t score much but play good interior D and get a lot of boards.

I think another key was that the two good Clemson bigs were really overweight and got gassed.  The game was very fast paced and they are built for a much slower pace.  They started out playing well but we’re struggling most of the second half.

Nice win.  Clemson had a similar record to Syracuse (there are a bunch of ACC schools near .500 in conference play early).  If we are to make the tournament, we have to start separating from this pack.  This was a good step towards that end.
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