[81alum]

Sloppy game with some not so great defending of their three point shooters.

I would characterize it differently.  It isn't that we were laying off of their 3-point shooters and didn't get out to them in time.  CP SLO used a lot of motion and screens, dragging our defenders toward the lane, impeding their ability to get back out to the 3pt line, and then passing the ball around to get it to an open player on the 3-pt line.   And, as I say above, "their three point shooters" were 10 players.   I credit CP SLO more than I'd say it was Stanford's players at fault.

I think we probably all saw the same thing.  A lot of those open 3s, including some that didn't go in for SLO, were a result of confused switching or congested switching, when one player would switch onto a target that another player did not switch off of, or when someone tried to switch onto a loose attacker and couldn't because of other opposing players--screens after screens.  In other words, a team that does a lot of screening for itself is going to generate some of those mistakes and mismatches against us unless we clean it up.  Gotta believe that South Carolina will be trying, and gotta believe that Tara knows this and we will be practicing accordingly too.  How much can we improve by Sunday?

[81alum]

Sloppy game with some not so great defending of their three point shooters.

I would characterize it differently.  It isn't that we were laying off of their 3-point shooters and didn't get out to them in time.  CP SLO used a lot of motion and screens, dragging our defenders toward the lane, impeding their ability to get back out to the 3pt line, and then passing the ball around to get it to an open player on the 3-pt line.   And, as I say above, "their three point shooters" were 10 players.   I credit CP SLO more than I'd say it was Stanford's players at fault.

I think we probably all saw the same thing.  A lot of those open 3s, including some that didn't go in for SLO, were a result of confused switching or congested switching, when one player would switch onto a target that another player did not switch off of, or when someone tried to switch onto a loose attacker and couldn't because of other opposing players--screens after screens.  In other words, a team that does a lot of screening for itself is going to generate some of those mistakes and mismatches against us unless we clean it up.  Gotta believe that South Carolina will be trying, and gotta believe that Tara knows this and we will be practicing accordingly too.  How much can we improve by Sunday?