01-13-2012, 11:37 AM
We need a thread to discuss this game. It was broadcast on the Utah internet channel but I was unable to watch it. From the boxscore and press accounts there are several interesting highlights and developments that I noticed. Hopefully we will hear soon from someone who was at the game or able to watch it.
Tara started Amber and Joslyn in place of Lindy and Taylor. The O sisters each had their usual double/doubles.
1) Guard play. Amber played quite well for 20 minutes, with 3 assists, 0 turnovers, and 4/5 shooting for 8 points. Toni scored 13 points on 5/13 shooting, and 1/4 from three point range. Perhaps she is beginning to break out of her shooting slump. Playing her alongside Amber may give her more opportunities to shoot. Lindy did get 22 minutes
2) Wing play.  Joslyn got only 2 points, and had 3 assists and 3 turnovers. It seems like the wing position--whether it is Taylor, or Bonnie, or Joslyn playing out of position--is our most unsettled position still. I'd love for someone who saw the game to comment on how those three seemed to perform. Can Joslyn do a Kayla and move from a post to a wing? Can Taylor develop offensively? Can Bonnie develop defensively? We need one (or all!) of those three to step up.
3) Our three point shooting continues to be embarassingly bad. 1-11 for 9.1%.
4) Utah made our defense look good. Utah has, statistically, the best defense in the Pac-12 because they slow the game down and make it very low scoring. That worked somewhat, but we held them to 28% shooting.
5) We had only 6 turnovers on the night. That stood out to me--but it may have been due to the slow pace of the game. Utah had only 9 turnovers.
6) Saturday it is on to a very good Colorado, playing at altitude. School near Oakland just thorougly beat Colorado, though, and so they look a little more vulnerable than their 13-2 record suggests. But unless our shooting heats up we will be vulnerable to good teams who happen to have a great shooting night.
Tara started Amber and Joslyn in place of Lindy and Taylor. The O sisters each had their usual double/doubles.
1) Guard play. Amber played quite well for 20 minutes, with 3 assists, 0 turnovers, and 4/5 shooting for 8 points. Toni scored 13 points on 5/13 shooting, and 1/4 from three point range. Perhaps she is beginning to break out of her shooting slump. Playing her alongside Amber may give her more opportunities to shoot. Lindy did get 22 minutes
2) Wing play.  Joslyn got only 2 points, and had 3 assists and 3 turnovers. It seems like the wing position--whether it is Taylor, or Bonnie, or Joslyn playing out of position--is our most unsettled position still. I'd love for someone who saw the game to comment on how those three seemed to perform. Can Joslyn do a Kayla and move from a post to a wing? Can Taylor develop offensively? Can Bonnie develop defensively? We need one (or all!) of those three to step up.
3) Our three point shooting continues to be embarassingly bad. 1-11 for 9.1%.
4) Utah made our defense look good. Utah has, statistically, the best defense in the Pac-12 because they slow the game down and make it very low scoring. That worked somewhat, but we held them to 28% shooting.
5) We had only 6 turnovers on the night. That stood out to me--but it may have been due to the slow pace of the game. Utah had only 9 turnovers.
6) Saturday it is on to a very good Colorado, playing at altitude. School near Oakland just thorougly beat Colorado, though, and so they look a little more vulnerable than their 13-2 record suggests. But unless our shooting heats up we will be vulnerable to good teams who happen to have a great shooting night.