02-06-2021, 09:57 AM
I think Jones has been mostly very, very good. She has tended toward some overly ambitious drives and passes that can lead to turnovers. That has been her main negative. This game the shots did not fall, but I don't think she took many that she doesn't normally take. Maybe she did and I missed them while picking my jaw up off the floor as I watched how bad things got in the 4th. I do think how she goes affects the whole team in a magnified way. When she is on, like the first few minutes, she can take over a game for however long that lasts. If she then gets into a bad mode with forced shots, drives and passes, seems to me the whole team catches that bug along with her. Several games she has started out magnificently but gotten into a bad mode late in games. Some of that is teams adjust to her. She will learn to adjust to their adjustments. She can do so many things that push the envelope as far as shot creation and creative passing. She will learn how to reign in her higher risk impulses and deal better with defenses that key on certain of her attacks.