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Message: [QUOTE="jazz, post: 3836980, member: 10942"] My 2 cents overall and on the Guards: Good defense. Switching is good. NM and AE bring an old school intensity to the floor. The other team knows it is going to be an all-day dog fight when those two are in. Then throw AG at them, just for some giggles….. We have the horses to wear down teams and pull out close games in the 4th. But and this is a big ‘But’, they need to do it game in and game out AND against top level teams. Complete BS call on the foul on AE. What they heck is the ref looking at? Is this a reputation foul already?? Same ref calls a BS call for NM kicking? Say what??? NM – Very good game. Not perfect but you can’t ask anymore from her. She is an excellent passer of the BB. I feel bad for her sometimes. Not just this game, but several others: she gets called for fouls that are marginal and then she gets bumped going to the basket and they don’t give her the foul. Meghan asks why didn’t NM shoot the 3 on the low pass from PB: because the pass was low…hard for players to gather and shoot on a low pass. Nice steal and better dish to CW who had a great finish. Working hard to get through screens. Nice finish on the feed from Liv, but I’m not sure if that would be successful against top level teams. I think NM might have become adequate at making layups now…maybe she has been practicing! 😊 Then she misses one…ughhhhhh!!! GA taking all PG responsibilities away from PB in lieu of NM. PB at the shooting guard is scary good! I don’t mean to cause any controversy here, but NM makes PB even better! PB doesn’t have to work so hard with NM finding her time and time again with pinpoint perfect passes so PB can stay in rhythm for the 3. Maybe we rotate CW at guard and with EW as well to get NM more playing time? CW has good hops for the boards, but I don’t think she can check the better wings. Interesting to see how GA plays it against top teams and when AG gets back. Very active/aware of things going on around her on defense -gets 3-4 steals as a result. Pushes the ball up the court as fast as anybody and this really stresses the defense. My best compliment for her today – she has been a complete pain in the A** nuisance. CW – Early charge could go either way. Nice take though. She must get called for a walk 2 times a game. I completely disagree with the one Meg said she had in the 1st Qtr though at 2:12. She is very explosive! Every game now, she gets the feeling NOBODY can keep her from the rim. Has nice size and strength so she can finish. She is the one player we have who will finish through contact! If she could hit her 3s at 40%, she could be unstoppable. But that is a BIG ‘if’. Weird how she struggles to shoot the 3. Has a sweet stroke but they just don’t fall. I am not being funny here, but I wonder sometimes if she should get her eyes checked. PB – This may sound weird, but I think she has really big hands. This helps her a lot in dribbling and finishing, etc. GA playing her exclusively at 2G even when NM is not in the game – only a couple minutes. He wants her shooting the ball from 3 and first around screens. Great arc and rotation on her shot. She is in the PB Zone! She busted the 2-3 zone in the 3rd with back to back threes and then one by NM. Duffy had enough of that and flashed up the ‘5’ to switch to man to man. That is what good outside shooting does for you. It is also a lot more tiring to play man to man all day than it is to play some zone which hopefully means we have an offensive advantage in the 4th Qtr. Also, imagine how tiring it is for the opponents best defensive player to be chasing PB around and fighting through screens all day. [/QUOTE]

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