(01-25-2019, 10:19 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Here's your third quarter...
9:41 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Layup. 28 - 36
9:39 Quinessa Caylao-Do made Free Throw. 28 - 37
9:39 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Free Throw. 28 - 37
9:17 DiJonai Carrington missed Three Point Jumper. 28 - 37
9:00 DiJonai Carrington made Layup. 30 - 37
9:00 DiJonai Carrington made Free Throw. 31 - 37
8:38 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Jumper. 31 - 37
8:34 Annika Jank missed Layup. 31 - 37
8:25 Kiana Williams made Layup. 33 - 37
8:08 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Three Point Jumper. 33 - 37
8:01 Lacie Hull missed Three Point Jumper. 33 - 37
7:54 Kiana Williams missed Three Point Jumper. 33 - 37
7:38 Mya Hollingshed missed Jumper. 33 - 37
7:16 Kiana Williams made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Alyssa Jerome. 36 - 37
6:56 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Layup. 36 - 37
6:38 DiJonai Carrington missed Layup. 36 - 37
6:12 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Layup. 36 - 37
6:05 Annika Jank made Layup. 36 - 39
5:56 Alanna Smith made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Kiana Williams. 39 - 39
5:40 Quinessa Caylao-Do made Jumper. 39 - 41
5:32 Alanna Smith made Layup. Assisted by Kiana Williams. 41 - 41
5:18 Mya Hollingshed made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Quinessa Caylao-Do. 41 - 44
5:06 DiJonai Carrington made Free Throw. 42 - 44
5:06 DiJonai Carrington missed Free Throw. 42 - 44
4:59 Anna Wilson made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Alanna Smith. 45 - 44
4:45 Quinessa Caylao-Do made Free Throw. 45 - 45
4:45 Quinessa Caylao-Do missed Free Throw. 45 - 45
4:29 Annika Jank missed Jumper. 45 - 45
4:09 Alanna Smith made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Lexie Hull. 48 - 45
3:53 Mya Hollingshed missed Three Point Jumper. 48 - 45
3:36 DiJonai Carrington made Free Throw. 49 - 45
3:36 DiJonai Carrington missed Free Throw. 49 - 45
3:13 Anna Wilson made Layup. Assisted by Kiana Williams. 51 - 45
2:51 Alexis Robinson missed Three Point Jumper. 51 - 45
2:32 Lexie Hull made Layup. 53 - 45
2:03 Kiana Williams missed Layup. 53 - 45
1:44 Anna Wilson made Layup. 55 - 45
1:32 Lesila Finau missed Layup. 55 - 45
1:18 Lexie Hull made Layup. Assisted by Kiana Williams. 57 - 45
0:58 Alexis Robinson made Free Throw. 57 - 46
0:58 Alexis Robinson made Free Throw. 57 - 47
0:58 Alexis Robinson made Free Throw. 57 - 48
0:50 Alanna Smith made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Kiana Williams. 60 - 48
0:02 Kiana Williams missed Three Point Jumper. 60 - 48
0:00 End of 3rd Quarter 60 - 48
An 11-3 run in the first 4 minutes to tie it up, and then a 15-4 run in the last 5 minutes to take the big lead.
BC
That Kiana Williams trey at 7:16 was the first of the day, before which we had gone 0/16. Just in the first couple of minutes of the quarter, Lacie, Dijonai and Kiana all missed treys. But after Kiana made that basket, it really seemed to open the floodgates. Seeing a teammate get her range really is contagious--we have seen that again and again over the years. Alanna made her very next trey after clanking them all first half, and she went on to drain two more without a miss. And Anna Wilson got into the act with a trey of her own two--making five three point shots in that quarter that went down. We didn't miss another three until Kiana did with 2 seconds left in the quarter.
Three point shooting is a fascinating study in group psychology. What are the odds that we would miss 16 in a row and then make 5 in a row? It absolutely has to be connected to some subtle range-finding that is influenced by observing your own successful shot and the shots of your teammates. I wonder if a sports psychologist could teach players to "find their range" by observing the successful shots of their opponents, too? Maybe not, since you are facing the wrong way.
In addition to finally getting our three point shooting going, the other major change that happened doesn't show up on that particular play by play readout. We had a series of steals leading to fast break points late in the quarter--probably preceding those three layups in a row. That has to be credited to improved defensive intensity.