[2006alum]

She continues to stress "we will learn from this and "we will get better"  after every tough loss,  but haven't really seen that except for a few individuals.

Yeah, the problem is that after every breakout game by one player, they regress the next. We've not seen two really big performances in a row from Carrington or Smith; others, like Wilson, Williams, Romano, and Coffee, have each had at least one really good game, but then seem to disappear the next one. Dodson has been really solid whenever she's in but she isn't getting a ton of minutes in any given game, and given our problems attacking the zone, she's often sitting inside watching while we heave junk shots from the perimeter.

It's honestly hard to assess where we're at because we've so far had four really top teams (UConn, Baylor, Ohio St x2), four teams we should easily have beaten (USF, Riverside, Bakersfield, and Kent State), and only one moderately difficult game we should win (Belmont). The second half of the Belmont game we looked really good and that was very encouraging. But we have not put it all together across four quarters and we aren't consistently getting output from anyone. I didn't realize just how dependent we would be on McPhee this season. She is herself somewhat streaky, but starting from a higher baseline (~10 points on a bad night, ~28 on a good one). Smith and Carrington have that potential, but they just aren't putting it together for multiple games in a row. And as a result, going into every single game, I truly have no idea what to respect, and from whom.

[2006alum]

She continues to stress "we will learn from this and "we will get better"  after every tough loss,  but haven't really seen that except for a few individuals.

Yeah, the problem is that after every breakout game by one player, they regress the next. We've not seen two really big performances in a row from Carrington or Smith; others, like Wilson, Williams, Romano, and Coffee, have each had at least one really good game, but then seem to disappear the next one. Dodson has been really solid whenever she's in but she isn't getting a ton of minutes in any given game, and given our problems attacking the zone, she's often sitting inside watching while we heave junk shots from the perimeter.

It's honestly hard to assess where we're at because we've so far had four really top teams (UConn, Baylor, Ohio St x2), four teams we should easily have beaten (USF, Riverside, Bakersfield, and Kent State), and only one moderately difficult game we should win (Belmont). The second half of the Belmont game we looked really good and that was very encouraging. But we have not put it all together across four quarters and we aren't consistently getting output from anyone. I didn't realize just how dependent we would be on McPhee this season. She is herself somewhat streaky, but starting from a higher baseline (~10 points on a bad night, ~28 on a good one). Smith and Carrington have that potential, but they just aren't putting it together for multiple games in a row. And as a result, going into every single game, I truly have no idea what to respect, and from whom.