11-14-2021, 03:55 PM
Thoughts:
- No fun to lose, but the team is going to be fine. Final 4 at least. We were 4-27 from 3. Pretty tough to win any game when you shoot like that. The effects of hitting even a few more threes are way more than just the points. Spacing gets better because the defense has to respect the shot, the lanes open up, all of a sudden everything is easier. Even if we we go 7 for 27, I think we win by double digits. And even as poorly as we played, we still were in it to the end. Stinks to play like that, but it's a really positive sign IMO.
- We miss Kiana's ball handling, but we miss her leadership more.
- We played our best in this game when Lacie was bringing it up and when Haley was off the ball. I thought she did a decent job, plus her floor game is crazy good. Her +/- was +19(!). Another way to look at that stat: during Lacie's 25 minutes we outscored them by 19. The other 15 minutes, they outscored us by 24. That says a lot.
- Anna just doesn't have the skills at point. Not quick enough, can't keep defenders off her, and doesn't make good reads. Her value is on defense (except for today - don't know what happened there).
- It's a struggle for Haley to bring it up against quicker guards and she is too turnover prone. Pretty much the same story there.
- She wasn't very good today, but I think Jordan can really help at the PG spot. Will be interesting to watch her develop and see if she can step it up. Jana apparently is on the outside looking in.
- Texas is a very good, well-coached team, and Harmon and Mitharu are impressive. They will be right there in the end.
- I agree with others, we got outcoached today. Maybe Tara uses games like this to experiment, but wow - lots of weird choices. For me the toughest was to watch Cam not be an integral part of the offense. Good things happen when she has it. She can pass, finish, usually has a quickness advantage on whoever is guarding her. In the first half, she turned it over once on the block, but got to the line every other time. She's an All American caliber player and has to shoot it more than 3 times in a game. Didn't make much sense to me why we didn't exploit her advantage on the block and instead sat her while Texas took the lead and went up by 8.
And even though we lost, I had 10x more fun watching the ladies play than the men! :>
- No fun to lose, but the team is going to be fine. Final 4 at least. We were 4-27 from 3. Pretty tough to win any game when you shoot like that. The effects of hitting even a few more threes are way more than just the points. Spacing gets better because the defense has to respect the shot, the lanes open up, all of a sudden everything is easier. Even if we we go 7 for 27, I think we win by double digits. And even as poorly as we played, we still were in it to the end. Stinks to play like that, but it's a really positive sign IMO.
- We miss Kiana's ball handling, but we miss her leadership more.
- We played our best in this game when Lacie was bringing it up and when Haley was off the ball. I thought she did a decent job, plus her floor game is crazy good. Her +/- was +19(!). Another way to look at that stat: during Lacie's 25 minutes we outscored them by 19. The other 15 minutes, they outscored us by 24. That says a lot.
- Anna just doesn't have the skills at point. Not quick enough, can't keep defenders off her, and doesn't make good reads. Her value is on defense (except for today - don't know what happened there).
- It's a struggle for Haley to bring it up against quicker guards and she is too turnover prone. Pretty much the same story there.
- She wasn't very good today, but I think Jordan can really help at the PG spot. Will be interesting to watch her develop and see if she can step it up. Jana apparently is on the outside looking in.
- Texas is a very good, well-coached team, and Harmon and Mitharu are impressive. They will be right there in the end.
- I agree with others, we got outcoached today. Maybe Tara uses games like this to experiment, but wow - lots of weird choices. For me the toughest was to watch Cam not be an integral part of the offense. Good things happen when she has it. She can pass, finish, usually has a quickness advantage on whoever is guarding her. In the first half, she turned it over once on the block, but got to the line every other time. She's an All American caliber player and has to shoot it more than 3 times in a game. Didn't make much sense to me why we didn't exploit her advantage on the block and instead sat her while Texas took the lead and went up by 8.
And even though we lost, I had 10x more fun watching the ladies play than the men! :>
