Probably doesn't get discussed because those players are taking much easier shots than Clark due to her gravity and the amount of attention she receives. Clark is taking 25 ft stepbacks, I would hope the other players getting layups and wide open 3s are shooting better percentages than her.
He’s a brilliant coach. That might have been one of his all time coached games.
Yeah, I would say this actually speaks well to Clark (or maybe poorly to opposing gameplans).
Clark is a scorer, no doubt. She likes to launch them deep and can hit them consistently.
Mostly knee injuries, which happen all the time with female athletes. I remember reading 10-15% of D1 women's basketball players suffer an ACL injury.
Like I said in another thread, I think it's a combination of:
right? They will not call anything on her..... and when they did they were amazed and looked around at each other like wtf.
Absolutely true, well, except that Clark also shoots plenty of layups that also get her to the foul line when she misses (and thus does not count against her overall %). But 38% from three is still only 50th best of the shooters in wcbb this year, perhaps there should be a few less 25’ stepbacks?
There really aren't high-level players that aren't playing year-round. That's not at all a UConn thing. Also, practice time is limited by the NCAA here the same as anywhere else.
They did it last night against a 1 seed.
I do wonder about analytics applied to women's basketball. In the men's game shots in the arc are made at a far higher percentage than in the women's game. The midrange (that Geno likes to exploit) can offer higher percentage opportunities when it is the correct player taking the shot.
I don't watch much women's college basketball but when I do I usually come away impressed with the three point shooting and shocked at how bad they are at layups.
Yes and no. For certain this team would not have made the Final Four without Paige, but everyone else on the team did what they had to do in order to get the win. Edwards put up 24pts, Muhl had 8 assists, and the four freshmen played their roles and did just enough to get the W. If any of Paige's supporting cast did not step up, her efforts would have been in vain.
The women's team's shot selection is horrible if you go by analytics generally -- Bueckers or Shade taking pull-up 15 footers, Edwards from the top of the key, etc.
You do realize that with the make up of the current team she is playing the power forward spot? Yes, the skinny 6'0" kid is playing the 4.
Here's an interesting statistic for you. For a female athlete who tears an ACL there is a 10-30% chance (depending on the study quoted) of either a re-tear the reconstructed ACL ... or a tear the other ACL.
