Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4819468, member: 12088"] I actually watched that game -- I must have had nothing else to do. It was a laugher, in part because McNeese St. has almost no defensive scheme other than a zone and a non-switching man-to-man and they were too slow to make either one work. So, just your basic Mulkey Cupcake Stomping. The plus side for LSU is that Rosario got to play 20 mins and scored 27 on 10-14. that's got to help her confidence, though shooting 7-14 on FTs wasn't very encouraging. All of her scoring was on lobs into the paint and all her defenders could do was foul her. To quote Meghan Culmo, in games against teams like K St, "You just have to make it a track meet." Lee is quite slow of foot these days, which is perfectly understandable given her recuperation. So, unless she shows marked improvement in foot speed by March, they won't go far in the tournament, and Paige and Aaliyah and the freshmen should run away with it in such a matchup. K St. would have absolutely no answer for Paige. Who does, after all? You expect Lee to score 20 or so, and you shut down the rest of the team. I'd have Aubrey on her playing deny defense on the lobs into the post and don't waste time and energy trying to muscle Lee out of there. Let Aaliyah and Paige and the freshmen shut down everything else. This is what was so peculiar about their win over Iowa, who should have just run away with it. But Caitlin & Co had not really coalesced at that point. [/QUOTE]