Yeah I read this and thought, are they rly that tall? Angel Reese is 6’3 (I assume she clears it but I’ve never seen someone call her 6’4 like often happens when they’re comfortably over the mark) and Morrow is 6’1. Stuelke is 6’2, Martin 6’0, O’grady clears 6’3.
I haven’t watched a lot of LSU this year. Really I’ve only seen them at their worst — the Colorado flop, the first SC loss. Can you tell us more about what they’re like at their best, and how Iowa might be able to overcome that advantage(s)? I do notice they they don’t rly have a true PG in the starting lineup. Is Poa a PG (I know she is a reserve)? TIA!
Well, I’m gonna confess right off the bat. I am not nearly as good as you at breaking down the game and each team in kind of a free, flowing easy to read formula like you have in the past….
But simply put… they are a hard nosed, physical, passionate, hard-working team. They truly are…this is a poor analogy and ill readily confess I’m mostly looking for laughs, but…
…they’re like some of us boys, when we were younger. Drink hard all night, get our asses up and work hard all day, maybe get in a fight or two along the way, and do it all again tomorrow…🤓
They are a fantastic offensive rebounding team. Of all the things in this game to worry about. That is mine…we go to sleep on the defensive glass in stretches.
I’m not worried about them being quicker than us, they aren’t…
I’m not worried about them being more athletic than us, they aren’t appreciably, or at all…
They are a solid shooting team, but not great. I’ve watched them play a few times and they go through stretches where they really have a hard time getting the ball in the basket, inside at that.
They are not a high-volume three point shooting team, yes they have a couple girls that can make them but they’ve made 140 at a 32% and Iowa has made 373 at a 38% clip..
They aren’t a full court press team…
They typically only play seven girls and they really don’t have a ton of ball handlers, Flo Johnson, HVL, and the freshman…Williams
For those of you that actually haven’t watched LSU play Reese is a hell of a ball player but she’s a throwback, physical brute of an interior player. She doesn’t have great handles she doesn’t have a great shot. She wears her emotions on her sleeve, as does the whole team.
Also, for those of you who have thought HVL was a dynamic point guard type, she is most assuredly not. She handles the ball. OK but she would not be a better ball handler than about four other girls on our team.
She also has really struggled this year and she’s only 5-7.
Gabby Marshall for comparison is 5–9…
They are rugged and play hard, but they are not “pretty”, they are not refined, they are not “composed”
As someone else above said, they can squabble and get in their own heads.
Maybe I’m a homer, but I see us winning and pulling away.
Foul trouble is a concern, but in my mind, if we have foul trouble, they are going to have foul trouble too. Because again I don’t know how many times they fouled out, but every game I’ve watched fouls have became a factor at the end…
