I suppose your first sentence is correct but I doubt it would be if they had gone through training camp with Geno as the first team. I think Allie showed some really good moves around the basket. Unfortunately, she hasn’t had any opportunities from three over the last couple of games. I feel good about her for next year.
I took the comments as a note of sarcasm…playing starters consisting of grad students and seniors when the game was over seemed like an odd coaching decision. It should have been used as an opportunity to give the normal bench players some valuable playing time against a strong UConn bench.
Personally, I'm fine with the deep bench dominating 4th quarter minutes, but I look forward to selectively seeing players like Kelis getting early minutes with starters to give them a chance to mesh.
I am right there with you in paying more attention to their play more than others. I think their integrating further into the team is a key to how to this season goes come April.
actually Jana is better than Serah on the offensive end and they are about the same on the defensive end; at least judging ny the share of rebounds they get when thry are in the game. Jana gets 26% of the offensive rebound opportunities while Serah gets 14%. For defensive rebounds Jana gets 14% and Serah 16%.
I agree with you that Jana is a better defensive rebounder than Serah but if we're going to look at advanced stats then Serah overall is a much better defender. And looking at the passing stats Serah's advanced stats are much better than Jana's. It's better to have the better passer on Offense so you can get the ball to the much better efficient shooters/scorers.
well, i actually said Jana is better at offensive rebounds. I agree that Serah is a better player on both offense and defense and it shows up in the stats across nearly all categories. For example twice the assist rates and nore steals and blocks.
Allie is also a core player. Jana is ninth.
Now you’ve done it. We’re DOOMED. Tell me. How many no hitters and perfect games have you broken up?
I agree. Allie is number 8. We need to be up 25 for Jana to come in. That’s been the pattern so far this season.
In her postgame appearance when Daly was asked about CD2 was quick to say that Caroline was fine but gave no details.
Serah did miss a lot of chippies tonight and she does that a lot. So does Jana when she gets the ball near the basket and they blow the layup.
The answer seems obvious: there are higher priorities, namely getting more minutes for Blanca, as well as Carol and Ayanna. And when Morgan comes back, she will likely also be a higher priority. There are only so many minutes and Geno has to get a deeper rotation up to speed over the next few months. The choices he makes about allocating precious playing time also undoubtedly reflect what happens in practice. I’d guess that Gandy has yet to make it impossible for Geno not to play her.
Nice Rugby comments, I thought the same thing seeing the action, some real head banging going on.
I can think of a lot of reasons. . .
