8-9 FTs (89%) & 4 rebounds, too.
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Lucy Olsen has had an incredible couple of weeks. On Feb 3rd/4th was named B1G & National Player of the Week
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Those step-throughs were so good.
Last years top 3 scorers were in the house, Caitlin, Juju and Lucy.
This is the Lucy that many of us expected! If she can continue to build on this performance and the others step up. This could be a team you won’t want to play come March…
How we do will depend on 3 things. 1. Ball security, which seems much improved when utilizing Guyton. 2. Hitting free throws 3. Having a 3 point threat
Everything else will fall in line, we have excellent defense, good rebounder, and several players that have gone through the grind. If we can protect the ball and hit our free throws we will win a lot of games down the end. We start hitting 3's with regularity and this team can be any team as shown today.
After a rough start Lucy played lights out and it was a great game. When she plays like this Iowa is hard to beat.
Lucy is fun to watch - her game is fun and she just plays with so much damn joy. Smiling in the huddle, smiling when she gets knocked down, so much fun.
She has one of the most unique bball styles on the planet. I love watching her play.
I really think it’s just such a big step up in competition in our league from where she was.
After a midseason slump, she is definitely coming around. Obviously critical to the success of the team. The moment was not too big for her.
Lucy was terrible for much of the game, but when it mattered most, she was easily the best player on the floor. She took over in the 4th quarter and made USC's #12 an afterthought. What a gutsy performance that may have finally established herself as this team's go-to player, the rock they can count on it when the going gets tough. She sure was that today.
And another shout-out to Addison O'Grady, who was a co-star of the 4th quarter. What an incredible performance against a bigger defense and the #4 team in the country riding a 15-game winning streak and undefeated in the BIG. But not anymore.
The entire team played with their hair on fire and took it to USC from the get-go. It was SO much fun.
BTW: As some of you have noted, "terrible" was a poor choice of words. Someone else said a "rough" start, and that seems more apt. I apologize for my mistake. Lucy was fantabulous.
And another shout-out to Addison O'Grady, who was a co-star of the 4th quarter. What an incredible performance against a bigger defense and the #4 team in the country riding a 15-game winning streak and undefeated in the BIG. But not anymore.
The entire team played with their hair on fire and took it to USC from the get-go. It was SO much fun.
BTW: As some of you have noted, "terrible" was a poor choice of words. Someone else said a "rough" start, and that seems more apt. I apologize for my mistake. Lucy was fantabulous.
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I thought she was in a little bit of a rhythm early in the first half, but then they went away from her, and then struggled.. But credit to her, she stuck with it, and did what we saw from her at the beginning of the year. If they want to make any noise going forward, she needs to be a big part of it.
"terrible" is a stretch, unless you compare it to a great 2nd half by Lucy, and I still disagree.
How can you be “terrible for much of the game” and still score 28 on more than 50% from the floor and hand out 4 assists too?
First half Lucy is what we have seen recently. 2nd half Lucy is what we thought we were getting. I hope she continues playing with this kind of confidence.
I'm very happy for her and hope she can continue that 2nd half mojo. She out played JuJu.
Love the step thru move she added. I was totally faked out watching, she goes to the midrage fade so much that the step thru was totally unexpected.
And her mid-range step-back is so good, just giving that one more thing for a defender to think about could buy her just that last extra inch or two.
Lucy has her ups and downs but she’s also capable of carrying the team on her shoulders when you need her to. This isn’t the first time it’s happened. It’s hard to outshine Juju but I think she did just thattoday. WTG Lucy!
I disagree. She played all but 3 minutes of the game and her only "bad" quarter was the 2nd.
Her stats broken down:
.....................1st....2nd.......3rd......4th......Totals
Min...............8..........9..........10........10............37
FGs.........2-4.....0-3.....3-4.....5-7.......10-18
FG%........50%....0%....75%....71%......56%
FTs............0-0.......1-2........2-2......5-5.........8-9
Pts..............4.........1...........8.......15..........28
Rebs.............2...........1............0..........1...............4
Assts............1............1............2..........0..............4
TO.................2...........2...........0..........0..............4
Steals..........0............1............0.........2..............3
Blocks.........0............0...........0.........0..............0
Much of the game is quite a stretch. She did start out with 4 points and 4 turnovers. From there she finished with 28 points and still only 4 turnovers. Huge 2nd half for sure.
Does Lucy ever frown? Winning or losing, she's the happiest player I've ever seen on the floor. And incidentally, she had a terrific game yesterday!
I think the saddest I have seen her was after her 1-6 FT shooting game vs Nebbie on Jan 16 (87-84 loss in OT)
For a senior point guard, she was making poor judgments on passes, missing her shots . . . "terrible" compared to what we expect of her, which is what she showed when it mattered most, as I said before. To me, she was something like a star baseball player who goes 0-3 with a pair of strikeouts while leaving five men on base--kinda terrible--but then hits a game-tying double in the 8th and a game-winning homer in the 9th.
No question that Lucy deserves her BIG honors as one of the keys to the awesome upset. I hope she can be consistent in leading the Hawkeyes to more wins the rest of the way.
