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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4228698, member: 9844"] SC is a very good team, but in some ways I am surprised that by many measures offensively they are not as good as you might expect for a top ranked team. When they have inside weapons like Boston that simply overpower most opponents, you would think that efficiency inside, not just from Boston but from Cardosa and other s, would elevate SC to an elite offensive team. But other than point blank scoring and offensive rebounding their offensive is far from impressive. They are a below average FT shooting team for example, and closer to average from the 3pt line. When we suffered multiple injuries and had just ok 3pt shooters, but did not have our most dangerous ones available, our offense suffered on many levels. Not much room to penetrate, and hard to get the ball inside. Boston and Cardosa in particular have been amazing inside when you consider that defenses are packing things in because of SC's mediocre outside shooting. Their bigs are better than our bigs. With Paige and Azzi now (also Caroline) we can pretty much make teams pay for not extending their defense, and I suspect against SC we would be perimeter oriented, the trick is trying to make SC beat us from there. So far even very good teams have had trouble taking away most of SC's inside game. They double team, and sometimes put a similar size C against Boston, and they can make it tougher for her, but she still manages to have a significant impact even when defenses are geared to stopping her, and even against other top flight C's. Some of that is getting offensive rebounds even if you can't get the ball directly. I think the game-plan defensively against SC is pretty well known, but forcing them to beat you from the outside is easier said than done. It's a difficult choice but I think I would double Boston and Cardosa off anyone except for Henderson, and maybe her too. [/QUOTE]

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