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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 3865435, member: 10435"] I agree as to Evina especially. She shoots her 3 slightly off the right side of her body ordinarily and that is her miss but lately it has been more pronounced. I think the problem is with her footwork. She is not squared up to the basket when she receives the ball and has an open 3. In other words she doesn't "hop" into position to shoot before she receives it because she doesn't want to shoot it lately and is oftentimes out of squared up position. As to defense, we shut everybody else down but Carda had a memorable night against the best team in the country. Many of her shots came at the end of the shot clock but I agree with you that the lock down defense wasn't there on her. I thought Evina would be that type of defender but she does not have the side to side movement right now because of her knee. I think she will be a different player next year wherever she is because the knee will be further strengthened. We need her to be a 40% three point shooter for the NCAAs. The team shoots 35% from the arc but if you take Paige out of the equation, we drop down to 30%. The simple solution is for Paige to be shooting the majority or plurality of the 3s if possible in the tourney. ONO actually has very good free throw form and has a good 15 foot shot. It is when she goes out farther that the shots seem to be less likely to go in. She also has to be on the low block more and I mean the low block. If you watch her, she will be about 2 feet in front of it, not in ideal position. Finally, that little pull up J by Nika was "we didn't know you had that shot but we really like it". I loved her comment when interviewed after and asked about her steals. She said that she did have 5 steals but putting that aside the team did not play good defense so she obviously has a bigger picture in mind which I thought was great. All about the team. People talk about Paige and AE when they are seniors. Imagine Nika 4 years from now as well. And Kara Wolters is right, there are a lot of similarities in Nika with the grit and fire of a point guard on the 1995 team whose initials are JR. [/QUOTE]

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