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Message: [QUOTE="jazz, post: 3787860, member: 10942"] My 2 cents on overall team and guard play: This team cannot hit open shots! Excluding PB we were 4-21 from three...cant get much worse than that. Horrible FT shooting. Should have scored 85 to 90. GA tinkering with EW at point but I think this is just for emergency situations down the line. EW tends to take too long to start things. Geno also tinkering with the high-low with Liv and AE – I think this has some possibilities but maybe better if Liv is on the outside, since she has at least shown she can hit the FT extended jumper. Didn’t really break away until the end of the third. Interesting first sub with NM in for AM – small line-up. Possibly due to the small DePaul line-up. I thought the defense was good, can’t complain. Beaten to the basket: CW -1, EW-3, AM-2, PB-1, NM-2. PB – lost 5 assists in the game: three times got the ball to CW (1) and AM(2) for threes off good dribble penetration and/or good cross court passing but the shot was missed. Need to hit these. Lost an assist to Liv. Continues to show great anticipation to use her length to get steals – 2 from my count. Had a three point heave otherwise she hits 4 of 5 on threes. Another big step as she hit the 3 with great regularity. Not sure I agree that she should shoot more – at least not more than she did in this game. She seems to have a good feel for this in this game at least. Actually, I feel like she forced a couple, maybe because she is being told to shoot more. I think Geno is hammering this into her so down the line, she is not hesitant to take the three and get to the basket. I think this is why she took a couple threes when the player backed off her, which she had not done before. Other than the couple she forced, I thought she played very well. EW – I think she struggles with consistency on defense. Gets beat regularly in a short time span, then she is ok for longer stretches. Nice take to the basket! Nice stop and pop to get to the line. Another nice take but didn’t finish. Used to bring the ball up – probably in order to see what PB can do off the ball. NM – She moves her feet well momentarily and then abruptly stops and reaches. Bad habit – will take time to break. Terrific pin-point pass to Liv, but Liv missed the shot. On another occasion, she showed nice work moving her feet to stop dribble penetration. Seems to be a tick late in anticipating movement. Maybe she is watching the ball looking for the swipe as opposed to the player’s hips. Nice sequence at the end when she got the steal and later the pass for the layup. The problem with the steal, is that this is NM using her hands again and stopping the movement of her feet. It worked this time. Please let me know if you agree or not. [/QUOTE]

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