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KLS as a pro

donalddoowop said:
A good percentage? She is averaging twenty one shots a game and averaging eight makes. That is 38%. A player shooting 38% and averaging 21 shots a game is shooting too much.
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That is very true, I’ve seen most Dallas fans mention, especially after they lose, how much arike shoots the ball, and her percentage. As a guard she should be averaging at least 4-5 assist a game, if I’m not mistaken the guard who leads with assist is the rookie, who comes off the bench.
 
donalddoowop said:
A good percentage? She is averaging twenty one shots a game and averaging eight makes. That is 38%. A player shooting 38% and averaging 21 shots a game is shooting too much.
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The last 5 games she’s been shooting 52% and I mentioned how much she shoots and at a low percentage
 
Half time with Mercury v Wings and Lou has played third or fourth most minutes. And played well. Four points driving to basket, setting screens, drawing players to her, getting a big block, disrupting other shots, defensively forcing Mercury out of bounds, helping to maintain possession, good passing. I have also seen her ignored by Arike when totally alone under the basket, 10 feet from Arike, who instead drove to basket allowing Mercury to close—and missed. She’s not alone. Wings need players who can see the floor.
 
Dokey said:
Half time with Mercury v Wings and Lou has played third or fourth most minutes. And played well. Four points driving to basket, setting screens, drawing players to her, getting a big block, disrupting other shots, defensively forcing Mercury out of bounds, helping to maintain possession, good passing. I have also seen her ignored by Arike when totally alone under the basket, 10 feet from Arike, who instead drove to basket allowing Mercury to close—and missed. She’s not alone. Wings need players who can see the floor.
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Katie lou has been quite good today. Getting to the basket,playing D, etc. And Arike can see the floor just fine. She just likes to shoot and not pass.
 
donalddoowop said:
A good percentage? She is averaging twenty one shots a game and averaging eight makes. That is 38%. A player shooting 38% and averaging 21 shots a game is shooting too much.
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Your stats are wrong. Entering the game she's shooting 42% from the floor and taking 19.2 shots per game.
 
Bama fan said:
Katie lou has been quite good today. Getting to the basket,playing D, etc. And Arike can see the floor just fine. She just likes to shoot and not pass.
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Arike's taken 13 shots today and hit 9, has 3 assists. She's been anything but a ball hog today.
 
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Lou is looking pretty good today.

Both Arike and Gray are shooting the ball well.

Arike has a fantastic skill set, but she should have a limit of 1-2 circus shots per game. She’s a good enough shooter that she can be efficient with better shot selection (her selection is good today).
 
Lou has found her calling. Assisting on Arike's shots. ;)

But seriously,her overall game (especially defense) has been good. Should help her confidence.

Guess Moriah has some injury?
 
eebmg said:
Lou has found her calling. Assisting on Arike's shots. ;)

But seriously,her overall game (especially defense) has been good. Should help her confidence.

Guess Moriah has some injury?
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I think they mentioned it was a knee issue
 
eebmg said:
Lou has found her calling. Assisting on Arike's shots. ;)

But seriously,her overall game (especially defense) has been good. Should help her confidence.

Guess Moriah has some injury?
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Yea moriah and the rookie sabouly are both dealing with injuries.
 
bballnut90 said:
Arike's taken 13 shots today and hit 9, has 3 assists. She's been anything but a ball hog today.
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She has been fine today, but she likes to shoot more than pass whether she is hitting the shots or not. For her career she is just under 40% . She is a great player, but she likes to shoot. That is all I said.
 
Argonaut said:
Passing to her is like throwing the ball into a black hole — you’re not sure what will happen, but you definitely won’t get it back.
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I stand by it.
 
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MilfordHusky said:
Lou had 11/5/4/1/3 playing 31 minutes at PF in the win.
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She looked really solid out there. Rebounded well, passed well and did well taking the ball to the basket. Played well today off Mabrey/Arike.
 
hmm. ND fans can crow today with Arike, Mabrey, Higgins Smith and Turner having good to great games.
 
Lou is a hard worker and has always worked on aspects of her game that needed work. She's become much more than a catch and shoot 3-point specialist. Even at UCONN. And she's continuing her solid work in the pros. Happy for her and wish her a long and productive career!
 
bballnut90 said:
Your stats are wrong. Entering the game she's shooting 42% from the floor and taking 19.2 shots per game.
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They were not wrong at the time I read them. She has better stats the last few games but before that they were not good. She was really good today but the offense ran more fluidly when she was not in the game because the ball was usually moving. Her coach had to tell her today to stop playing so much one on one. When she does that her teammates stand around watching her. If she can play consistently as well as she did today she will be all WNBA and worthy of it. However, her team needs Mabrey (sp) and KLS to play as well as they did today. I think Mabrey made the difference. So much for KLS not being able to create her own shot. She shot that to pieces today.
 
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donalddoowop said:
They were not wrong at the time I read them. She has better stats the last few games but before that they were not good. She was really good today but the offense ran more fluidly when she was not in the game because the ball was usually moving. Her coach had to tell her today to stop playing so much one on one. When she does that her teammates stand around watching her. If she can play consistently as well as she did today she will be all WNBA and worthy of it. However, her team needs Mabrey (sp) and KLS to play as well as they did today. I think Mabrey made the difference. So much for KLS not being able to create her own shot. She shot that to pieces today.
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Exactly, and the thing is she has gotten better with creating her own shot, plus defending, and rebounding, it’s always going to be just giving her more minutes and time on the floor, the more time she gets, the more comfortable and aggressive she will be, I noticed today especially she was a little more aggressive on offense, she just needs more extended minutes. And I think agler should think about having mabrey continuing to start even when moriah comes back, the offense to me flows better when she and Lou are on the floor together.
 
Jlong231 said:
That is very true, I’ve seen most Dallas fans mention, especially after they lose, how much arike shoots the ball, and her percentage. As a guard she should be averaging at least 4-5 assist a game, if I’m not mistaken the guard who leads with assist is the rookie, who comes off the bench.
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There's only 11 players that average at least 4-5 and one them, Alyssa Thomas isn't a guard.
 
The five Dallas had on the floor for much of the second half played well but then I watched Seattle in following game move the ball quickly up the court and use quick passes to score. Note that Lou's steal was off DT--just keeping it in the family.
 
bballnut90 said:
Arike's taken 13 shots today and hit 9, has 3 assists. She's been anything but a ball hog today.
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And they won because she was less of a ball hog, though her misses were still on really bad decisions. I could tell she was about to miss before ball cleared her finger tips. In two years if she learns to pass those up, she will be a winning force. Mabbrey and Lou helped put her in position for good shots. It was an enjoyable game.
 
sivad40 said:
There's only 11 players that average at least 4-5 and one them, Alyssa Thomas isn't a guard.
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I’m talking about the rookie guard from South Carolina, not sure what her name is
 
donalddoowop said:
They were not wrong at the time I read them. She has better stats the last few games but before that they were not good. She was really good today but the offense ran more fluidly when she was not in the game because the ball was usually moving. Her coach had to tell her today to stop playing so much one on one. When she does that her teammates stand around watching her. If she can play consistently as well as she did today she will be all WNBA and worthy of it. However, her team needs Mabrey (sp) and KLS to play as well as they did today. I think Mabrey made the difference. So much for KLS not being able to create her own shot. She shot that to pieces today.
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Stats were from a few games ago, at the earliest, and you posted those numbers today. On the season Arike is now shooting 44% from the floor which is quite good for a guard.

The ball flat out didnt move much on Dallas from what I saw regardless if she was in there or not. Their offense is almost all dribble drive or catch and create. They have no quality post presence so very little interior passing, especially since Phoenix had Griner inside. Even KLS was scoring off the dribble.
 
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Dokey said:
And they won because she was less of a ball hog, though her misses were still on really bad decisions. I could tell she was about to miss before ball cleared her finger tips. In two years if she learns to pass those up, she will be a winning force. Mabbrey and Lou helped put her in position for good shots. It was an enjoyable game.
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They also won because she made most of her shots. All of the cherry and nit picking about Arike on here is overshadowing the fact that Phoenix lost to a team that should've beaten.
 
Dokey said:
And they won because she was less of a ball hog, though her misses were still on really bad decisions. I could tell she was about to miss before ball cleared her finger tips. In two years if she learns to pass those up, she will be a winning force. Mabbrey and Lou helped put her in position for good shots. It was an enjoyable game.
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Always impressed by some posters' abilities to find negatives in players they don't like
 
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