It’s hard to say too much about Dawn’s decision making considering she has 3 NCs, but her musical chairs approach to the bench is not working anymore. We used to wear teams down with our rotation, but that rotation also hinders players from getting hot, working through slumps, and kills consistency. Teams with equal athleticism will beat us because we have no consistency. Paopao looks lost, and looks afraid. Tessa seems to be forcing it way too much, and Bree Hall has completely disappeared offensively. And jesus, Kitts has toothpick legs around the basket. That girl is gonna get killed by bigger bully players. Sania has a limited toolkit, and absolutely folded against Oldacre. The UCLA loss was not an outlier! Betts is better, and she would kill us in a rematch. Fulwiley gives us a good spark, but Dawn is living in her head. Dauda should not be playing in this team, and McDaniel looks oookkkaaayyy. And poor Raven…when she shoots the ball, it’s bad. Real bad.
This team is great at home, but in the tourney I smell a loss in the Elite 8. Not a bad season, but with the unparalleled level of parity in WBB, we may not see another NC in a long time.
