I agree with almost all the comments above. A few of additional thoughts:
As a team, there was very little sloppiness on offense and generally good ball movement. I can really only recall one bad pass from Haley (she may finally have learned not to force it with too many thread-the-needle passes) and as a team, turnovers were relatively low for this early in the season.
Ashten seems much more comfortable with the ball. Her passing looks better and when her shot is not there on the perimeter, she does not seem lost, as she sometimes has in past years.
Lauren Betts also impressed me with her comfort level within the offense. While she didn’t play much (injury precaution?) she had several nice passes and stayed nicely in the flow, not forcing the action, but letting the game come to her.
Elena Bosgana hit not one but two threes late in the fourth quarter. We know how aggressively she can attack the basket, but if she can hit threes as well, this will open up her offensive game a great deal. Last year when the ball went to her it too often did not come back out, so today I was pleased to see her better integrated into the team offense.
While Telana Lepolo and Indya Nivar both brought the ball up and initiated the offense, I thought Lepolo did so much more crisply, except for some instances of over dribbling on the perimeter. Lepolo had some great passes and the bigs should expect to have the ball zipped to them when they are open. While Lepolo strikes me as more of a pass first PG, she showed a broad offensive arsenal, including at least three threes, a beautiful runner and a couple of nice drives that she finished. Nivar seemed more suited to a 2 on 2 or 3 on 3 game and looks to have more of a scorer’s mentality. While Lepolo impressed me a little more today, I’ll go out on a limb and say that both are ahead of where Kiana was at this stage of her development.
Brooke Demetre is the queen of fallaway and turnaround. She took quite a few tough shots that were well defended by Cam and others and yet they kept falling and falling. I don’t think it was luck.
I believe Hannah missed every one of her three pointers. As others have noted, a much more diversified offensive game was on display, which is much more important than one day of bad shooting. After the scrimmage ended, Hannah was the only one practicing shooting and she was mesmerizing in her accuracy. She is such a hard worker and how ironic was it that our best three-point thooter was the only one practicing her shooting after the scrimmage.
If it were up to me, I’d start (with an eye toward who will develop most by the end of the year):
Cam
Kiki
Haley
Hannah
Telana
Finally, Juju Watkins had a chance to chat with most if not all of the entire team after the scrimmage. I hope she feels the sisterhood and I like that she was at Stanford right before what is presumably decision day for her.
As a team, there was very little sloppiness on offense and generally good ball movement. I can really only recall one bad pass from Haley (she may finally have learned not to force it with too many thread-the-needle passes) and as a team, turnovers were relatively low for this early in the season.
Ashten seems much more comfortable with the ball. Her passing looks better and when her shot is not there on the perimeter, she does not seem lost, as she sometimes has in past years.
Lauren Betts also impressed me with her comfort level within the offense. While she didn’t play much (injury precaution?) she had several nice passes and stayed nicely in the flow, not forcing the action, but letting the game come to her.
Elena Bosgana hit not one but two threes late in the fourth quarter. We know how aggressively she can attack the basket, but if she can hit threes as well, this will open up her offensive game a great deal. Last year when the ball went to her it too often did not come back out, so today I was pleased to see her better integrated into the team offense.
While Telana Lepolo and Indya Nivar both brought the ball up and initiated the offense, I thought Lepolo did so much more crisply, except for some instances of over dribbling on the perimeter. Lepolo had some great passes and the bigs should expect to have the ball zipped to them when they are open. While Lepolo strikes me as more of a pass first PG, she showed a broad offensive arsenal, including at least three threes, a beautiful runner and a couple of nice drives that she finished. Nivar seemed more suited to a 2 on 2 or 3 on 3 game and looks to have more of a scorer’s mentality. While Lepolo impressed me a little more today, I’ll go out on a limb and say that both are ahead of where Kiana was at this stage of her development.
Brooke Demetre is the queen of fallaway and turnaround. She took quite a few tough shots that were well defended by Cam and others and yet they kept falling and falling. I don’t think it was luck.
I believe Hannah missed every one of her three pointers. As others have noted, a much more diversified offensive game was on display, which is much more important than one day of bad shooting. After the scrimmage ended, Hannah was the only one practicing shooting and she was mesmerizing in her accuracy. She is such a hard worker and how ironic was it that our best three-point thooter was the only one practicing her shooting after the scrimmage.
If it were up to me, I’d start (with an eye toward who will develop most by the end of the year):
Cam
Kiki
Haley
Hannah
Telana
Finally, Juju Watkins had a chance to chat with most if not all of the entire team after the scrimmage. I hope she feels the sisterhood and I like that she was at Stanford right before what is presumably decision day for her.