[TheFarm07]

[quote author=RuralFan link=topic=14530.msg155369#msg155369 date=1454506665]
I just don't understand our offensive philosophy.  Low APR U played a two three zone with the guards out high to prevent three point shots.  The three baseline players stayed low to prevent drives.  This leaves a of exceedingly large proportions hole in the middle of the zone. We could pass into the middle or dribble into the middle whenever we wanted, but then nothing.  The unguarded player with the ball ten to twelve feet from the basket looked to pass the ball back outside.  Surely someone on our team can consistently hit a ten or twelve foot shot.

Exactly!  The mid range jumper has been our Achilles heel since Amber left.  Those are the shots we need Marta and Bri to start making.  Karlie has shown the willingness, a few times, to go around her perimeter defender and hit a mid range jump shot, and that needs to happen more.  She could seriously punish the zone by doing that more.  Out of Lili's 12 misses, only two were mid range jumpers--when she can't get open for treys and when the layups are in too much traffic, she needs to stop-and-pop, and that seems to be her last preference.  How odd, too, given that one of the first options in our new "pick and roll"  offense is for the guard to get an open mid range jumper after curling around the screen.  It wastes the screens if that never happens.
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AGREED.  It seems like mid-range jumpers have not been in our offensive reportoire for a few years.  It's either shooting the three (leaving us vulnerable to a cold shooting night) or scoring inside whether through a drive or through a post (which could be stopped by clogging up the lane).  It seemed like we got a memo saying that we weren't allowed to score anywhere else.

We have good shooters who could use the confidence boost from making shorter range shots and it would help in taking better shot selection if opponents' defenses are leaving us the biggest gap in the areas between the paint and the perimeter.

I really hope these quotes from the players and Tara are not just talk and they actually try to implement them going forward starting with the game at Berkeley on Friday night.  I would love to see them crack 70 points for a change.

[TheFarm07]

[quote author=RuralFan link=topic=14530.msg155369#msg155369 date=1454506665]
I just don't understand our offensive philosophy.  Low APR U played a two three zone with the guards out high to prevent three point shots.  The three baseline players stayed low to prevent drives.  This leaves a of exceedingly large proportions hole in the middle of the zone. We could pass into the middle or dribble into the middle whenever we wanted, but then nothing.  The unguarded player with the ball ten to twelve feet from the basket looked to pass the ball back outside.  Surely someone on our team can consistently hit a ten or twelve foot shot.

Exactly!  The mid range jumper has been our Achilles heel since Amber left.  Those are the shots we need Marta and Bri to start making.  Karlie has shown the willingness, a few times, to go around her perimeter defender and hit a mid range jump shot, and that needs to happen more.  She could seriously punish the zone by doing that more.  Out of Lili's 12 misses, only two were mid range jumpers--when she can't get open for treys and when the layups are in too much traffic, she needs to stop-and-pop, and that seems to be her last preference.  How odd, too, given that one of the first options in our new "pick and roll"  offense is for the guard to get an open mid range jumper after curling around the screen.  It wastes the screens if that never happens.
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AGREED.  It seems like mid-range jumpers have not been in our offensive reportoire for a few years.  It's either shooting the three (leaving us vulnerable to a cold shooting night) or scoring inside whether through a drive or through a post (which could be stopped by clogging up the lane).  It seemed like we got a memo saying that we weren't allowed to score anywhere else.

We have good shooters who could use the confidence boost from making shorter range shots and it would help in taking better shot selection if opponents' defenses are leaving us the biggest gap in the areas between the paint and the perimeter.

I really hope these quotes from the players and Tara are not just talk and they actually try to implement them going forward starting with the game at Berkeley on Friday night.  I would love to see them crack 70 points for a change.