We have lost 2 games vs undefeated teams on the road, that we could’ve won and I propose this Michigan State game we should’ve won. Both of these teams are likely top 15 teams next week. But I also doubt anyone had us 9-2 right now.
Lots of angry “reflexive” reactions in the game thread and I too was pissed. But there is lots of good as well.
Things I’ve been critical of…I do wish we could get Ava more minutes. She has more upside….
With that said here is why I’m sure she doesn’t yet. Neither one of those girls right now are getting the ball deep at 8 foot & wheeling very often for some reason and that includes AOG.,…why?!
Ava in particular had the ball within 5 foot with her shooting, hand free and rather than going up, she passed it for a turnover?! there’s clearly a confidence/trust issue by her and maybe the coaching staff right now?
Our press break, really isn’t that bad, but our propensity to dribble into half court traps by Sr guards is quite odd. Can’t be coached that way…. they are poor decisions, possibly because they’ve been sped up in a full court game and are in their heads. Lucy & KF had 12 TOs between them, that’s not a coaching issue.
We go through spurts where we can’t make shots, and there’s not a lot you can do except work through it. This was an expressly unique game in that we rely on Lucy to get in the lane and make five jumpers and she did not do that today.
Our out of bounds plays were poor today, and generally speaking they they’ve been decent. We do that wheel with Olson, McCabe, Affolter, etc., but that was not effective today and getting anything under the basket was nonexistent. It feels to me like we went away from Hannah when she got the third foul and we shouldn’t have.
Hanna‘s ability to break the press regardless of what some uninformed fan suggested is actually quite remarkable. She handled the ball a lot today and only had two turnovers. But again, they went away from her and I’m not sure why.
AOG, is suddenly reluctant to make a post move and I wonder why? Is it because she has lost the ball a few times & being told not to etc.?
Why do we keep throwing the ball in over the top when, we can’t execut it and she fumbles it away. Ava has missed a few too.
Now I think it’s reasonable to understand we do need to keep trying, but man are we bad at it?
Again, not a coaching issue unless you think they should take that out of their offense and that’s probably not reasonable. But it definitely is an execution issue.
As good as we are defensively, we have a lapse from time to time after a big made shot, that has to stop.
Ultimately every loss isn’t because the coach did a poor job this team is still working through some kinks. They haven’t had a bad loss, and the games they have lost were very winnable. Probably what makes it so frustrating.
But the over the top criticisms are silly to me…
I’m missing a couple things that I wish they'd do better and obviously I didn’t really even address the good, thoughts?
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