Feels like CB needs an offensive coordinator. We play very good defense and she’s a very good recruiter and a very good representative of he university, but our offense can look downright ugly.
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Feels like CB needs an offensive coordinator. We play very good defense and she’s a very good recruiter and a very good representative of he university, but our offense can look downright ugly.
I think offensively it is a combination of both the players and coaches. There were a few times we our players were trying to do one on one instead of moving the ball around for a better shot. IN, EA, and LG did this a few times throughout the game. They were taking bad shots at the wrong time. There were times they should have went inside to NH and CT. Their shots were a high percentage shots. NH was killing them in the first quarter in the inside and CB took her out which I did not understand why. CB needs to come clean and take some of the blame because she is the head coach and she could have solved that problem by seating those 3 players on a bench for a whole quarter in order for them to get the message. Dean and Roy were good at this. Do yall recall the blue team?
How is our FT shooting still killing us after all these years. It’s mind boggling that we are horrid at shooting them. Need to dedicate a practice to shooting 1 and 1 and if miss, run (suicides) and then the person that missed that 1 and 1 comes right back up to the line (rotate around the horn). What our coach did (he played under Bones at WF). The players that were just OK got better at hitting them in games. Bad thing was this wasn’t our normal run at the end of practice either.
Not playing TH the first 2 plus minutes of OT was an odd decision given she was almost all of the offense in the 4th qtr. The result was UNC not scoring a single point in OT.
I think it was a terrible decision not to start T Henderson in OT.
As for free throw practice I agree with AlWoodfor2.
Time to do something different on FT's. It cannot hurt.
In clutch situations it make a difference who gets sent to the line.
I think Lanie, Reniya, Ciera, Elina Nyla Harris and maybe Taliyah would be my first picks.
As for free throw practice I agree with AlWoodfor2.
Time to do something different on FT's. It cannot hurt.
In clutch situations it make a difference who gets sent to the line.
I think Lanie, Reniya, Ciera, Elina Nyla Harris and maybe Taliyah would be my first picks.
I did not have a problem with personnel on the court the last two possessions. I think you needed a better person to potentially give it back to the inbounder. We tried to get the ball into Lanie (best FT shooter on the team). It was not a great pass, but a play that has to be made late in the game. We got the ball into our 2nd best FT shooter Reniya the other other time with 7 seconds left (still not sure how just .3 seconds went on the clock on both deflections prior) and for some reason threw the ball back to a 50% shooter?
As far as late game:
-Lanie 82%
-Reniya 86% FR & SO
-Elina 80%
-Harris 75%
-Toomey 74%
would be my 5.
You can't have Taliyah (44%) or Indya (55%) in the game when the other team is going to foul and put you on the line. Or Brooks (28%) for that matter. Those 3 players alone account for 37 of the 60 misses from the line as a team through 12 games this year.
Great info but I think we were talking about starting overtime/OT.
I was not talking about the 10.4 second inbounds play in regulation.
I agree with that play with 10.4 second left in regulation
Lanie just did not catch the ball on the inbounds play. It was a good play.
On the inbounds play to Reniya with 5 seconds left we should have passed it to Nyla Harris breaking upcourt towards our basket instead of passing back under their basket.
As for Indya's FT's. I am sure the plan was not for her to be the player fouled. Reniya should have dribbled
out. Still would have been better to not be under their basket.
The big mistake at the end was not getting our players off the foul line and all players back on defense.
Bottom line: We were not prepared for the 2 misses.
As for the best FT shooters in late game situations my eyeball list pretty much agrees with your good stats
which is good for me lol. Maybe my eyes and basketball mind are still somewhat accurate.
I was not talking about the 10.4 second inbounds play in regulation.
I agree with that play with 10.4 second left in regulation
Lanie just did not catch the ball on the inbounds play. It was a good play.
On the inbounds play to Reniya with 5 seconds left we should have passed it to Nyla Harris breaking upcourt towards our basket instead of passing back under their basket.
As for Indya's FT's. I am sure the plan was not for her to be the player fouled. Reniya should have dribbled
out. Still would have been better to not be under their basket.
The big mistake at the end was not getting our players off the foul line and all players back on defense.
Bottom line: We were not prepared for the 2 misses.
As for the best FT shooters in late game situations my eyeball list pretty much agrees with your good stats
which is good for me lol. Maybe my eyes and basketball mind are still somewhat accurate.
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This is the in game adjustments I keep talking about. That falls on CB and Staff. By now, they have enough stats to know who the best FT's shooters on the team are and those players should have been in the game in the closing seconds. CB should know better. She is not a new coach. She had coached for over 15 years now and she should know better. She needs to start owning it in the press conferences when she messes up and stop putting all of the blame on the players. Her adjustments at the end of that game and during the OT is unacceptable. As someone stated earlier, TH should have started during the OT. She had the hot hand. A person with a little bit of a brain would have left her at the start of the OT.
That's a trait of CB that I have the most issues with, she never takes responsibility on coaching issues, and is quick to put a loss on the players not making shots, or turnovers, and etc. They need to work on reducing T/O's and FT shooting, and feeding players in the post. There should be no excuse for this team to be such a liability at the FT line.
The biggest problem I have noticed is when one of our players takes a shot from 3 the rest of the team seems to look at the basket to see if it goes in.
I always coached my kids to assume your teammate was going to miss the shot. There are a couple of precious seconds to move towards the basket while the other team is watching the ball. That movement makes it much harder for your opponent to box out.
Our team seems to assume their teammate will make the shot. While that is an admirable show of confidence in their teammate, the shooting percentages don't back it up!
I always coached my kids to assume your teammate was going to miss the shot. There are a couple of precious seconds to move towards the basket while the other team is watching the ball. That movement makes it much harder for your opponent to box out.
Our team seems to assume their teammate will make the shot. While that is an admirable show of confidence in their teammate, the shooting percentages don't back it up!
Listened to the radio show on the way to the game tonight:
re the indya’s two missed FTs: both players were on the line and were instructed to commit an over the back foul on the line to set up the defense and make them go full court. Plan was to foul in the back court following that.
Reniya Kelly is not even practicing 5s or lives. Her game minutes is the allotted minutes per week until following Christmas….
re the indya’s two missed FTs: both players were on the line and were instructed to commit an over the back foul on the line to set up the defense and make them go full court. Plan was to foul in the back court following that.
Reniya Kelly is not even practicing 5s or lives. Her game minutes is the allotted minutes per week until following Christmas….
We seriously need Reniya 100% and with her shot going in.
She is by far our best dribbler vs pressure and has at time been a terrific shooter.
She is by far our best dribbler vs pressure and has at time been a terrific shooter.
Absolutely. And she’s quietly coming back to form distributing the ball. Since UCLA, 28 assists to 8 turnovers (only game with more than 1 TO per game was at Texas with 3 when the team turned it over like 25x). The shot is going to come, just a matter of time.
I agree but at times, especially last year, they emphasized getting it into the post so much that they force it. How many times last year did we see them force it into Maria just for it to get knocked away, especially in close games. That’s part of the issue of our coaching staff never showing more than one solid “game plan” in tight games. They just seem to keep pushing the same thing even when it’s clear the opponent knows how to defend it.
I think we really could benefit from teaching and developing the basics starting with how a perimeter player should use a pass or shot fake to free up space to make the clean post entry pass - defenders know we’re trying to get it to the post. Also pass fakes help move the post defender that is trying to deny the post entry pass. Similarly, let’s talk about learning how to cut to the open spaces which are actually helpful. I feel like often times our offense is just standing around or the only ones moving are doing the classic laps around the perimeter à la what we’ve seen from the men’s team in recent years. And when they have had more movement than that, it’s not been to helpful spots on the floor and often times they’ve been on top of each other.
It pains me to say it but we should all watch some UConn film. This year’s team has had a lot of textbook examples of how to move and cut without the ball. Their recent game, especially the first half, against USC being a great example. And while they have some outliers in Fudd and Strong, I’d argue some of their players aren’t so far ahead of ours in terms of talent or physical attributes. I think the difference is they are taught those skills, many of which are advanced for even top high school players but that are more basic requirements for top performing team af the P4 level. And I’d throw in how to get offensive rebounds into that category including your point on moving toward the hoop when the shot goes up.
Hope we see a lot more skill development and progress on the decision making front starting with learning how to take care of the ball. 15 TOs against a team like UNCW would be automatic running under most top coaches past or present. Same for FTs.