03-22-2023, 07:45 AM
(03-20-2023, 04:07 PM)Hieronymus Wrote: Agree that changes were made but none of it worked. I wanted to see bigger and instead we got smaller with more time for young guards that didn’t grow into the roles.
1. Clearly Tara wanted the team to run, and on the rare occasion they did/could they looked good. But those moments were really rare against good teams.
2. Guard rebounding continued to be the weirdest problem ever. If i exclude Davis for them, I still get a 14 - 6 deficit for Stanford. You can see the issues, but they never got fixed. Game decider in a game like this.
3. The young guards never developed and Kiki faded away as the year went on.
4. In tough games overall the whole bench would disappear as again was the case in this game.
5. Some tough end game execution all year, which revisited us in spades in this one. Last 3 plays - 3 turnovers and Cam never touches the ball. Unfortunately Jones was a major, major part of that.
The one big plus for me is Cam’s growth. Betts was also a plus. We will see next year if the other players improve. I worry though that I see too many athletic limitations in some of the players for them to really step up. We will see. And I don’t see anybody on the roster now becoming an off the dribble threat in a year.
Good points. Tara wanted to use 11 players so we could run more. Where was our transition offense and quick pace of place the last two months? nonexistent. we had too many issues across the board. #5 was the most frustrating. end of game management and offense schemes late in games. timeouts directly leading to turnovers. we were just as bad there against ole miss as we were against SC five months ago. No changes.When I see Coach Paye in the timeout with the clipboard late....pretty much always led to a turnover out of the timeout.
