[standfan]

Look at these telling stats. 
Points in the paint: 54-14 LSU
2nd chance point in 2nd half: 30-4 LSU 
How does LSU score 54 paint points when they have worse perimeter shooters around Reese than we have around Brink? Should we be copying the Mulkey coaching playbook? 

One way or the other, Tara needs to get more interior production next year. I attended 5 of the 6 games in Seattle, including the 2 E8 games. My impressions were (1) that our posts were easily better than those of any of the 8 teams in Seattle (no LSU or USoCar); but (2) every team had more good outside shooters who were willing to take an outside shot w/o hesitation when presented with an open opportunity.

Did you mean exterior production?  We need more outside shooting to prevent defenses from doing the box-and-1 on Jump, similar to what Iowa is doing to South Carolina.  Opening space means threatening from all parts of the floor.

I think we all can agree we need better jumpshooting from outside and midrange.  But knowing the problem is not knowing the solution.  How do we get it?  With incoming freshmen?  With improved sophomores?  Or getting some of our seniors and juniors not named Jump to become more credible threats?  We tried all year long and failed.  We will see how Tara solves the obvious problem, but I'd rather know now than have to wait 7 months ;(

I actually meant interior both in terms of directly scoring and by being the engine that drives the offense. (Since I am not expecting too much from the freshman, both the returning interior and exterior players will need to score more and rebound more to replace Haley's production (13.5 PTs, 9.0 Rs).
Brink, Iriafen, Betts and Belibi collectively averaged 31.7 points this season. I consider them this year's posts - 70% of Prechtel's limited scoring were off 3PT shots, and Jones' 13.5 PTS per game were hybrid (and she is not coming back). I think next year's posts need to score considerably more points than 31.7 per game to replace a major chunk of Jones' points. The same group of posts averaged only 3.7 assists per game last year. That also need to go up. We need to increase our exterior production, but I just don't see that being generated much by our exterior players' drives or exterior passes. They will have to shoot and hit more open threes. Without anyone with Haley's penetration skills, a lot of the open looks outside will need to come from a good inside-outside game, i.e., more assists by the posts.

[standfan]

Look at these telling stats. 
Points in the paint: 54-14 LSU
2nd chance point in 2nd half: 30-4 LSU 
How does LSU score 54 paint points when they have worse perimeter shooters around Reese than we have around Brink? Should we be copying the Mulkey coaching playbook? 

One way or the other, Tara needs to get more interior production next year. I attended 5 of the 6 games in Seattle, including the 2 E8 games. My impressions were (1) that our posts were easily better than those of any of the 8 teams in Seattle (no LSU or USoCar); but (2) every team had more good outside shooters who were willing to take an outside shot w/o hesitation when presented with an open opportunity.

Did you mean exterior production?  We need more outside shooting to prevent defenses from doing the box-and-1 on Jump, similar to what Iowa is doing to South Carolina.  Opening space means threatening from all parts of the floor.

I think we all can agree we need better jumpshooting from outside and midrange.  But knowing the problem is not knowing the solution.  How do we get it?  With incoming freshmen?  With improved sophomores?  Or getting some of our seniors and juniors not named Jump to become more credible threats?  We tried all year long and failed.  We will see how Tara solves the obvious problem, but I'd rather know now than have to wait 7 months ;(

I actually meant interior both in terms of directly scoring and by being the engine that drives the offense. (Since I am not expecting too much from the freshman, both the returning interior and exterior players will need to score more and rebound more to replace Haley's production (13.5 PTs, 9.0 Rs).
Brink, Iriafen, Betts and Belibi collectively averaged 31.7 points this season. I consider them this year's posts - 70% of Prechtel's limited scoring were off 3PT shots, and Jones' 13.5 PTS per game were hybrid (and she is not coming back). I think next year's posts need to score considerably more points than 31.7 per game to replace a major chunk of Jones' points. The same group of posts averaged only 3.7 assists per game last year. That also need to go up. We need to increase our exterior production, but I just don't see that being generated much by our exterior players' drives or exterior passes. They will have to shoot and hit more open threes. Without anyone with Haley's penetration skills, a lot of the open looks outside will need to come from a good inside-outside game, i.e., more assists by the posts.