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[quote="Hulk01" pid='306838' dateline='1612631058']
My bias;
Jones reflects the challenge Tara faces in building a team:
she looks for wonderful teammates--great--
and resists killers--generally good, now and then not.
Haley is a sweetheart; Lexie and Lacie are prom dates;
Prechtel, Hannah.
Kiana seems to have some killer but she and Anna combined
could not team up and produce a shout.
Cam is a killer but a freshman.
(Paige Bueckers is a killer but too cocky to let being a freshman get in her way,
and she knows Geno is turning her loose and handing her the reins.)
(Again, just my opinion).
Demetre seems to have some fire but not here yet.

Killers also deals well with pressure--
thrive on it.
Yesterday, only one woman seemed to cope--
Cameron vividly.
Not proving my thesis,
but supporting it.

Best to you all---hulk



My model is Diana Taurasi,
another view at which several of you just recoiled.



Taurasi teams didn't let you off the mat.
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I agree Brink is a killer. I also think, if she can escape injury, she will be the face of USA wbb. She's not just a fantastic talent, she's electric and the camera loves her.

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[quote="chimera" pid='306837' dateline='1612630657']

I think Jones has been mostly very, very good.  She has tended toward some overly ambitious drives and passes that can lead to turnovers.  That has been her main negative.  This game the shots did not fall, but I don't think she took many that she doesn't normally take.  Maybe she did and I missed them while picking my jaw up off the floor as I watched how bad things got in the 4th.  I do think how she goes affects the whole team in a magnified way.  When she is on, like the first few minutes, she can take over a game for however long that lasts.  If she then gets into a bad mode with forced shots, drives and passes, seems to me the whole team catches that bug along with her.  Several games she has started out magnificently but gotten into a bad mode late in games.  Some of that is teams adjust to her.  She will learn to adjust to their adjustments.  She can do so many things that push the envelope as far as shot creation and creative passing.  She will learn how to reign in her higher risk impulses and deal better with defenses that key on certain of her attacks.
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I thought Jones looked tired out there. She stumbled around three times. Maybe up all night for a test, or couldn't sleep, or... Also, I hope she works on her 3 pointer. No reason she shouldn't be excellent from there though her silky touch in the paint is not a skill that helpful in the 3.

[old spanish trail]

[quote="Hulk01" pid='306838' dateline='1612631058']
My bias;
Jones reflects the challenge Tara faces in building a team:
she looks for wonderful teammates--great--
and resists killers--generally good, now and then not.
Haley is a sweetheart; Lexie and Lacie are prom dates;
Prechtel, Hannah.
Kiana seems to have some killer but she and Anna combined
could not team up and produce a shout.
Cam is a killer but a freshman.
(Paige Bueckers is a killer but too cocky to let being a freshman get in her way,
and she knows Geno is turning her loose and handing her the reins.)
(Again, just my opinion).
Demetre seems to have some fire but not here yet.

Killers also deals well with pressure--
thrive on it.
Yesterday, only one woman seemed to cope--
Cameron vividly.
Not proving my thesis,
but supporting it.

Best to you all---hulk



My model is Diana Taurasi,
another view at which several of you just recoiled.



Taurasi teams didn't let you off the mat.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

I agree Brink is a killer. I also think, if she can escape injury, she will be the face of USA wbb. She's not just a fantastic talent, she's electric and the camera loves her.

---

[quote="chimera" pid='306837' dateline='1612630657']

I think Jones has been mostly very, very good.  She has tended toward some overly ambitious drives and passes that can lead to turnovers.  That has been her main negative.  This game the shots did not fall, but I don't think she took many that she doesn't normally take.  Maybe she did and I missed them while picking my jaw up off the floor as I watched how bad things got in the 4th.  I do think how she goes affects the whole team in a magnified way.  When she is on, like the first few minutes, she can take over a game for however long that lasts.  If she then gets into a bad mode with forced shots, drives and passes, seems to me the whole team catches that bug along with her.  Several games she has started out magnificently but gotten into a bad mode late in games.  Some of that is teams adjust to her.  She will learn to adjust to their adjustments.  She can do so many things that push the envelope as far as shot creation and creative passing.  She will learn how to reign in her higher risk impulses and deal better with defenses that key on certain of her attacks.
__________________________________________________________________________________

I thought Jones looked tired out there. She stumbled around three times. Maybe up all night for a test, or couldn't sleep, or... Also, I hope she works on her 3 pointer. No reason she shouldn't be excellent from there though her silky touch in the paint is not a skill that helpful in the 3.