A few more observations.
1) I failed to notice that we played a 2-3 zone last night, specifically designed to force LSU to settle for three point shots and take away their inside game. It worked. LSU had only 22 points in the paint, we had 42. Unfortunately, LSU made 40% of their threes. I don't remember ever seeing us play zone for more than a couple of possessions at a time, so this was something new.
2) I do wonder what happened to Tess Heal. Probably Kate saw something about the match ups that was not working--perhaps Clardy was the better defender in the zone?
3) Audio press conference here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/stanford-...IGbXqP.m4a
Kate sounds like many of us: not pleased with the outcome but very proud of the team and its improvement. Brought Agara to the presser: "She balled out."
"We were focused on creating a lot of congestion in the paint. Sometimes it worked better than others."
As for the Mikayla Williams scoring, Kate indicated that "sometimes you have to pick your poison" and clearly she was the poison we picked in order to shut down the inside game. By focusing elsewhere we let her get into a rhythm and her jumper became "pure."
1) I failed to notice that we played a 2-3 zone last night, specifically designed to force LSU to settle for three point shots and take away their inside game. It worked. LSU had only 22 points in the paint, we had 42. Unfortunately, LSU made 40% of their threes. I don't remember ever seeing us play zone for more than a couple of possessions at a time, so this was something new.
2) I do wonder what happened to Tess Heal. Probably Kate saw something about the match ups that was not working--perhaps Clardy was the better defender in the zone?
3) Audio press conference here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/stanford-...IGbXqP.m4a
Kate sounds like many of us: not pleased with the outcome but very proud of the team and its improvement. Brought Agara to the presser: "She balled out."
"We were focused on creating a lot of congestion in the paint. Sometimes it worked better than others."
As for the Mikayla Williams scoring, Kate indicated that "sometimes you have to pick your poison" and clearly she was the poison we picked in order to shut down the inside game. By focusing elsewhere we let her get into a rhythm and her jumper became "pure."