There was still 4 on 5, offensively, when Faris was in the game until her senior season. If Coombs comes in with 4 of the 5 starters, her offense is not necessarily needed because she will be out there with four teammates who are averaging in double figures. Geno wants the subs to contribute in some way and Coombs can contribute defensively, as did Faris. Her offense will come.
I hope you are correct. She got 14:02 minutes last night. Second only to Kyla. This could happen often in our conference games. Let's hope your "feelers" are onto something.
Freshmen Faris did hinder the the UCONN offense precisely because she was a poor shooter 38% overall and 27% from deep. But when you have both Tina Charles and Maya Moore on the roster you can overcome a lot. Kelly improved her percentage every year and was deadly as a senior shooting 53% overall and 42% from deep. Mikayla is a sophomore if she were shooting half as well as Kelly Faris did as freshmen ( her worse year) this entire thread would be unnecessary. Mikayla is playing 10 minutes per game and her shooting is abysmal! Mikayla career numbers: 12 for 49 overall= 24% and 1 of 15 from deep for 6.6% So how much more time do you want to give her to develop? Sorry those numbers do not justify more playing time, unless you think UCONN is not trying to get a participation trophy at the end of the season.
Faris played along side of 3 UCONN mount rushmore players Maya, Tina and Stewie.
You solution is to put them in a press and go hard for as long as you can? That's really going to help the team's shooting percentage and execution in the half court. The only thing that will cause to "fall in place" is more tired legs.
Agree with MOST of your comments. Never said Molly was perfect, just that in the whole scheme of things, she has been outplaying the other options. Geno votes with minutes played and Molly appears to be ahead.
Dude, hope you are right that Mikayla's performance will warrant increased playing time. Having watched a lot of college basketball through the years, my impression is typically player's college shooting does not improve over high school. Defenders are bigger, faster, etc. While she took and made shots in HS, have not seen any indication she ever was a solid shooter. Hope she is the exception and by next year progresses out of the current funk.
Sorry , Where did I say that ?
Yes you did. See the bolded parts of your post. Any chance you are reading what you are posting?
Agree---I'd disagree with anyone called perfect--that's the beauty of being human--no on is perfect. You didn't say anyone was perfect. I agree Geno, seems, to give credit for hard practices with PT minutes. I re-watched that section of the SMU game when he pulled Molly, he sure seemed he was disappointed with her play--disappointed, not angry or unhappy or angry as he has been with CW--he expects much more from her, no so much from Molly.
Yikes!
This kid is a strange case. All the kids need to make physical improvements in their games, but when she came in I had her pegged as one of those who “gets it” between the ears. Now I just don’t know. It’s sink or swim time for her I guess.
An here I thought we were done questioning the methods of instruction of this proven great teacher.
One reason may be that so many coaches have tried to change her mechanics and it's only messed her up. Despite her poor mechanics, she may have still managed to put the ball in the basket but since she's received all this "help" from coaches, her confidence has melted and she's caught between what her mechanics were and what they have transitioned to.
I'm POSITIVE (from the couple of times I've had opportunity to actually talk with past players), that Geno was saying "I'd rather not talk to YOU (the press) about Mikayla and have YOU (the press and the Boneyard) mess things up even more"
Yea, you're off base here. You have to understand what Geno's saying.