[TheFarm07]

11 assists, 2 points, 2 steals, 2 rebounds, 0 fouls, 0 turnovers. With a stat line like that, when you have 4 other players scoring in double figures (mostly on your dimes) who needs points?

Let's not get carried away by one game against an overmatched opponent. When facing against a top tier team such as South Carolina or UConn with much better defenders, we need all five players on the court to have the ability to score. We've seen it in the past - Sniezek was a great passer and facilitator but she was not willing to make jump shots even when wide open and that allowed opposing teams to sag off of her and provide them more options to double-team someone else.

Let's not get carried away by one player 5 years ago.  Anyone who wants to take a single 2-point game as an indictment that Lepolo doesn't shoot seemingly hasn't done their due diligence.

High school stats do not guarantee college stats, but GoStanford indicates Lepolo "Averaged 15.0 points, 8.6 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 steals per game as a senior".  She had 32 points in her final high school game.   "Lepolo continually drove to the basket and finished two-point shots, many of them with a high degree of difficulty."


(BTW, Sniezek was NOT a great passer.  Her senior year, she had 150 A and 78 TO.  In her junior year (I can't find 2018 NCAA individual rankings) she was 99th in Assists/TO and  98th in Assists/game.   No doubt she would have done better with this year's team, but, as I recall, she tried too many questionable passes.)

Lepolo's assists per quarter were 2, 1, 5, 3,  playing 6, 4, 6, 5 minutes (non-starter).

As to a claim that the assists came during garbage time:
The cumulative time of SDS starters in this game by quarter were 29, 29, 28, 31 minutes.  I don't see that "garbage time" is appropriate for what SDS was playing.  (Stanford starters played 37, 27, 28, 0 minutes.) 

As to a claim that the whole game was garbage time:
San Diego State was ranked #186 (out of 356) by the Net rankings last year.
(In Marta's senior year, she had 5 Assists and 2 TO in 20 minutes against RPI #205 CS Bakersfield, and 4 Assists and 2 TO in 27 minutes against #229 UC Riverside.)

Stanford single-game individual records indicate 11 assists in a single game is tied for 22rd in Stanford history (1x 16, 1x 15, 3x 13, 16x 12).
Marta did have a 13 Assist / 0 TO game in 24 minutes in a loss to Washington as a sophomore in 2016.

Maybe in 5 years we'll look back and see this as the best game in Lepolo's career, but I seriously doubt it.

Let's not make the same mistake extrapolating from high school stats again. According to Sniezek's Stanford profile, she:
As a junior in 2014, led the Washington, D.C. metro area averaging 30.6 points per game to go along with 8.5 rebounds per game, 6.7 assists per game and 6.6 steals per game.

This also came from an article when Sniezek announced her commitment: "She showed a much improved shot from long range with 46 three-pointers made, including five in a season-high 43-point performance at Georgetown Visitation on Feb. 18."

Also, you misinterpreted my point. I was not trying to say Lepolo is not going to shoot the ball in her collegiate career based on one game. I was saying that we shouldn't jump to conclusions either way from a sample size of 1 against an opponent we handled easily. And that having the possibility of a pass-only PG limits our offensive options as cardfan1996 pointed out.

[TheFarm07]

11 assists, 2 points, 2 steals, 2 rebounds, 0 fouls, 0 turnovers. With a stat line like that, when you have 4 other players scoring in double figures (mostly on your dimes) who needs points?

Let's not get carried away by one game against an overmatched opponent. When facing against a top tier team such as South Carolina or UConn with much better defenders, we need all five players on the court to have the ability to score. We've seen it in the past - Sniezek was a great passer and facilitator but she was not willing to make jump shots even when wide open and that allowed opposing teams to sag off of her and provide them more options to double-team someone else.

Let's not get carried away by one player 5 years ago.  Anyone who wants to take a single 2-point game as an indictment that Lepolo doesn't shoot seemingly hasn't done their due diligence.

High school stats do not guarantee college stats, but GoStanford indicates Lepolo "Averaged 15.0 points, 8.6 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 steals per game as a senior".  She had 32 points in her final high school game.   "Lepolo continually drove to the basket and finished two-point shots, many of them with a high degree of difficulty."


(BTW, Sniezek was NOT a great passer.  Her senior year, she had 150 A and 78 TO.  In her junior year (I can't find 2018 NCAA individual rankings) she was 99th in Assists/TO and  98th in Assists/game.   No doubt she would have done better with this year's team, but, as I recall, she tried too many questionable passes.)

Lepolo's assists per quarter were 2, 1, 5, 3,  playing 6, 4, 6, 5 minutes (non-starter).

As to a claim that the assists came during garbage time:
The cumulative time of SDS starters in this game by quarter were 29, 29, 28, 31 minutes.  I don't see that "garbage time" is appropriate for what SDS was playing.  (Stanford starters played 37, 27, 28, 0 minutes.) 

As to a claim that the whole game was garbage time:
San Diego State was ranked #186 (out of 356) by the Net rankings last year.
(In Marta's senior year, she had 5 Assists and 2 TO in 20 minutes against RPI #205 CS Bakersfield, and 4 Assists and 2 TO in 27 minutes against #229 UC Riverside.)

Stanford single-game individual records indicate 11 assists in a single game is tied for 22rd in Stanford history (1x 16, 1x 15, 3x 13, 16x 12).
Marta did have a 13 Assist / 0 TO game in 24 minutes in a loss to Washington as a sophomore in 2016.

Maybe in 5 years we'll look back and see this as the best game in Lepolo's career, but I seriously doubt it.

Let's not make the same mistake extrapolating from high school stats again. According to Sniezek's Stanford profile, she:
As a junior in 2014, led the Washington, D.C. metro area averaging 30.6 points per game to go along with 8.5 rebounds per game, 6.7 assists per game and 6.6 steals per game.

This also came from an article when Sniezek announced her commitment: "She showed a much improved shot from long range with 46 three-pointers made, including five in a season-high 43-point performance at Georgetown Visitation on Feb. 18."

Also, you misinterpreted my point. I was not trying to say Lepolo is not going to shoot the ball in her collegiate career based on one game. I was saying that we shouldn't jump to conclusions either way from a sample size of 1 against an opponent we handled easily. And that having the possibility of a pass-only PG limits our offensive options as cardfan1996 pointed out.