11-17-2022, 01:08 AM
Observations:
Jump seems to have become our most consistent and stable player, that started last year and continues even more so this year; no wonder Tara gives her the most minutes. Only question is; people reported that in practices Hannan was doing a fair amount of driving and pull up mid range jumpers. Don't think I have seen one yet in games, maybe one.
Jump shot a hair better than 53% from 3 tonight - and her year to date 3 pt % dropped - she was shooting 63% coming into the game!
Assuming So. Carolina is as physical, quick, and pressuring at UConn and Texas. If so, how we are playing now is going to cut it. We rely too much on passes and with the ball pressure and overall pressure, it's a recoipe for mega TOs against teams like those three - and they are also great at turning them into quick fast break points. We need Lepolo, Jones, Nivar, and Nnopu to drive and penetrate and as needed, kick out.
Speaking of Jones, she MUST take those 3 shots! Especially in these games against weaker opponents where a miss isn't going to be disasterous. She has to get that shot and he confidence developed. Otherwise teams will just lay off her.
When Betts is in there, I notice that the rest of our players don't do much. The guard or wing who has the ball just looks to throw the ball into the post ans let Betts go for a shot. That works agst. weeaker opponents but won't be so good agst. top teams with realy good centers/posts. Can't be so predictable and think that we can always squeeze in a pass to Betts. And yes, Betts should not always put down a dribble.
Against So. Carolina, we may have an advantage in that they aren't a great 3pt shooting team and from what I can see in stats, they rely a lot om post play. So with our posts, we should able to make it difficult on SC if we play hard and smart.
My metric for the team to be playing good is for them to score 20 each quarter. We didn't do that this game in the 2nd and 4th and almost didn't average 20 per Q for the entire game.
Jump seems to have become our most consistent and stable player, that started last year and continues even more so this year; no wonder Tara gives her the most minutes. Only question is; people reported that in practices Hannan was doing a fair amount of driving and pull up mid range jumpers. Don't think I have seen one yet in games, maybe one.
Jump shot a hair better than 53% from 3 tonight - and her year to date 3 pt % dropped - she was shooting 63% coming into the game!
Assuming So. Carolina is as physical, quick, and pressuring at UConn and Texas. If so, how we are playing now is going to cut it. We rely too much on passes and with the ball pressure and overall pressure, it's a recoipe for mega TOs against teams like those three - and they are also great at turning them into quick fast break points. We need Lepolo, Jones, Nivar, and Nnopu to drive and penetrate and as needed, kick out.
Speaking of Jones, she MUST take those 3 shots! Especially in these games against weaker opponents where a miss isn't going to be disasterous. She has to get that shot and he confidence developed. Otherwise teams will just lay off her.
When Betts is in there, I notice that the rest of our players don't do much. The guard or wing who has the ball just looks to throw the ball into the post ans let Betts go for a shot. That works agst. weeaker opponents but won't be so good agst. top teams with realy good centers/posts. Can't be so predictable and think that we can always squeeze in a pass to Betts. And yes, Betts should not always put down a dribble.
Against So. Carolina, we may have an advantage in that they aren't a great 3pt shooting team and from what I can see in stats, they rely a lot om post play. So with our posts, we should able to make it difficult on SC if we play hard and smart.
My metric for the team to be playing good is for them to score 20 each quarter. We didn't do that this game in the 2nd and 4th and almost didn't average 20 per Q for the entire game.