Aaliyah Edwards focused on improving for UConn women, even when working with Canadian National team

[Bone Dog]

It did, however when two guards take 30+ shots and aren't efficient with their shooting, the bigs being free to operate is pointless. Shay Colley was 2/14, Fields was 6/24. Ludicrous.

Indeed. I was thinking of both teams. Some good post play, but mainly because the bigs tended to have a "clean" lane with no double teams. The highlights don't really show how that was accomplished.

 

[Bone Dog]

Deja Kelly drew a key foul that stopped the bleeding ( I didn't love the play as I thought she was just looking for the foul).

Welcome to Kelly ball. Seems like it's mainly an artifact of hs and college ball. I don't think the little guards who've built their style around this vision of their own talents have a future in the pros.

 

[YKCornelius]

It did, however when two guards take 30+ shots and aren't efficient with their shooting, the bigs being free to operate is pointless. Shay Colley was 2/14, Fields was 6/24. Ludicrous.

Cancontent, I watched the entire game start to finish. I was gobsmacked at how atrocious the Canadian guards were the entire game. It wasn't just their poor shooting percentages, which were horrific. Combined, Fields and Colley must have missed at least a dozen shots that weren't even close, including a handful of lay-ups that were just chucked up in the vicinity of the backboard. The US guards were just daring the Canadian guards to go one-on-one and fire away, and Fields and Colley were happy to oblige. Their clock management and ball handling were abysmal as well. I expected better and was disappointed.

 

[UConnCat]

Canada defeated Puerto Rico to finish a disappointing 3rd in the Americup. This was Aaliyah's worst shooting game - 2/9 with 9 rebounds. She played fewer minutes in this game so perhaps the coach sensed some fatigue. She logged a lot of minutes in the tournament. I thought she had a shot at the all tournament team but today's game probably hurt her chances.

 

[cancontent]

Cancontent, I watched the entire game start to finish. I was gobsmacked at how atrocious the Canadian guards were the entire game. It wasn't just their poor shooting percentages, which were horrific. Combined, Fields and Colley must have missed at least a dozen shots that weren't even close, including a handful of lay-ups that were just chucked up in the vicinity of the backboard. The US guards were just daring the Canadian guards to go one-on-one and fire away, and Fields and Colley were happy to oblige. Their clock management and ball handling were abysmal as well. I expected better and was disappointed.

Oh please don't get me started because the decision making of those two cost Canada this game, but it made the Argentina QF even harder than necessary.

For someone with as long a tenure as Fields, she should know better. Colley as well. When she fell for the bait when Kelly got away with trash talking a play or two earlier and got hit with the technical, I was ready to throw something at my laptop.

Like someone said on Twitter, Canada seems to be doing fine with the development of posts and forwards. Guards are severely lacking and we're in need of a deeper pool to sustain any long term international success.