Creighton postgame interviews
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YouTube also has a video of the Creighton post-game commentary, featuring Coach Jim Flanery, Molly Mogensen, and Morgan Maly. It is very much worth watching in my opinion.
Coach Flanery is a 100% class act in every sense. I think that if he had UConn's rosters over the years, he would have won as many games as Geno. He may have been one of those coaches whom Geno referred to when he said that there have been great coaches who have not been great winners because they didn't recruit top-notch players.
His coaching style is placid (no biting sarcasm or raised voice), but his concern for his players' well-being is evident. It's easy to see why players would want to play for him and stay for so many years.
When you think about it, it's also amazing how many games he has won with rosters that (as far as I know) have never included a single WNBA draftee or future player. None of his current players are going to be professional basketball players, and I doubt that any of them will have significant NIL revenues. The benefits they get from playing college basketball will be strictly non-financial.
Coach Flanery is a 100% class act in every sense. I think that if he had UConn's rosters over the years, he would have won as many games as Geno. He may have been one of those coaches whom Geno referred to when he said that there have been great coaches who have not been great winners because they didn't recruit top-notch players.
His coaching style is placid (no biting sarcasm or raised voice), but his concern for his players' well-being is evident. It's easy to see why players would want to play for him and stay for so many years.
When you think about it, it's also amazing how many games he has won with rosters that (as far as I know) have never included a single WNBA draftee or future player. None of his current players are going to be professional basketball players, and I doubt that any of them will have significant NIL revenues. The benefits they get from playing college basketball will be strictly non-financial.
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Agree with comments regarding coach Flannery
What I found most interesting is that he said the game plan was not to guard Kaitlyn Chen as they would take their chances with her beating them
Very rare, that you see that kind of honesty from a coach
What I found most interesting is that he said the game plan was not to guard Kaitlyn Chen as they would take their chances with her beating them
Very rare, that you see that kind of honesty from a coach
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Turns out he had the correct game plan, he just didn't have the athletes that UConn has
I don't think he could deny it if he wanted to. It was obvious what they were doing. Our combined PG position, KC and KK took 26% of our team's shots. They were 2-10 from the arc. We will see a lot more of that. The answer is not for them to shoot. the answer is to work to get Paige the ball or to let Paige be the PG at times and make Ash the 2 or 3. That way there are 4 good 3 point shooters and 4 good scorers.
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I enjoy the Bluejay post-game interviews.... but this particular one
was not the one that I view earlier today. The one I picked off the
internet had MOGAN MALY, MOLLY MORGENSEN (sp?), and the
coach. It was much longer, and they had a number of comments
about Sarah, obvious the game from Saturday. Could there be
TWO interviews?? It so, check on the one with the the two players and
H.C. ... very worthwhile.
SEEMS THAT THIS INTERVIEW was from last season. Coach
Flannery refers to EMMA ROSNIEK (SP), she transferred, right??
U do realize that not guarding a player
Allows for cutting off passing lanes and makes it easy to double team
Essentially playing 5. Against 4
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That is an added benefit for the defense of not having a point guard on offense who is a consistent threat from the arc. Paige was not doubled once however, not once, in the first quarter. She took 3 shots in that quarter. The first shot of the game was a missed pull up J with one man coverage, the second was her bringing it up and shooting an open 3 on single coverage, and the third was a push off charge call on single coverage.
It makes it easy to double when you slough off but when the opposing 2 PGs decide they are going to be the shooters from the arc and take 26% of the overall shots and have a combined season percentage of 25% from the 3, you are playing into the opponent's hands. My solution in those instances is to let Paige or Azzi bring it up. What Creighton did Sunday was a game playbook for every other team we face.
Say what you want about Nika, but she shot 40% from the arc and 46% overall last year and averaged less than 6 shots a game. I'm not suggesting she is the paragon of point guards but she knew when to get the ball to the people who could score and would have been in her glory with both Azzi and Sarah.
I thought Paige's comments were telling. She said she was waiting for the game to come to her in the first half and did the opposite in the second half. That's because In the first half, she wasn't getting the ball because we weren't trying hard enough to get it to her and because she also needs to be more assertive earlier in games as Geno has preached now for four years.
Knowing that Kaitlyn/KK (and Nika) won't be guarded, Geno does exactly the opposite with them than what is being advocated here.
He encourages and supports their shooting, believing if they can each make 3 jump shots, the opposing team will be punished for their strategy, and will have to change up their plan. This then opens up offense for all.
Obviously, in the Creighton game that strategy failed, as both K&KK shot poorly. I still just don't see Geno backing off wanting them to shoot.
If he did go Paige at point, he could roll out a team of Paige 1, Ash 2, Azzie 3, Morgan 4, Sarah 5 with Allie Z as reserve. That would be all shooters, but relegate our point guards (and bigs) to the bench.
He doesn't want to do that though, as he trusts Chen and KK, and needs KK and Aubrey for defense.
He encourages and supports their shooting, believing if they can each make 3 jump shots, the opposing team will be punished for their strategy, and will have to change up their plan. This then opens up offense for all.
Obviously, in the Creighton game that strategy failed, as both K&KK shot poorly. I still just don't see Geno backing off wanting them to shoot.
If he did go Paige at point, he could roll out a team of Paige 1, Ash 2, Azzie 3, Morgan 4, Sarah 5 with Allie Z as reserve. That would be all shooters, but relegate our point guards (and bigs) to the bench.
He doesn't want to do that though, as he trusts Chen and KK, and needs KK and Aubrey for defense.
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As mentioned above HC Jim Flanery is a class act and really loves and respects his players but is honest enough to give UConn coaches and players his respect also!
You need more coaches out there like coach Flanery!
You need more coaches out there like coach Flanery!
The only thing I disagree with in this post is what the team would look like with Paige at point. Morgan is not a shooter at present since she doesn't shoot. I still think he would have either Jana or Ice out there for defense, rebounds and to clog the lane. You have enough offense with Ash, Azzi, Sarah and Paige. I don't see KK and KC improving their 3s significantly because it is a matter of form, confidence and practice. Of the 3, the one thing very difficult to change is form.
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Thanks for the easy link to Coach Flannery's comments! Watch
and Listen to the very end!
I'm sorry but for me when it comes to Paige and her saying the generic wait for the game to come to her means she isn't moving without the ball.... if you watch the two half's and just concentrate on her offensive movement with out the ball, that is telling....
Also, I think they really went after Azzi to neutralize her shooting and she let them get in her head and rushed shots. Honestly, Azzi was probably their best bet with how their team is constructed versus trying to stop Paige and Sarah when it comes to the big 3.
She was definitely more aggressive in the second half but she wasn't passing it away either when she got the ball more. There is a definite failure to get her the ball in the right places. I repeat, neither KC nor KK are true point guards and that is part of the problem. Creighton gave them plenty of open shots by design and 2-8 from 3 isn't exactly a threat. Plus KK has no mid range game. I would have thought she developed one over the summer. I'm being factual not critical. The right people have to take the shots on the team