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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 3428143, member: 730"] Couldn't agree more. I too have seen Makurat wide open for a baseline 3 but never getting the ball. In Walker's defense I remember Geno telling her for 2 years that when she gets the ball she needs to look to score first, but it's become obvious that she has miss interpreted that and feels it's up to her to score every time she gets the ball. I remember watching Stewart as a freshman flashing into the paint all alone and whoever had the ball at the high post would look left, look right, and if there was no one else open they would throw Stewart the ball, now double teamed. I may be wrong but just before the NCAA's that year I remember Geno saying something to the effect that some players were going to have to sacrifice if they wanted to win a title. Was it just coincidental that Stewart "woke up" in the NCAA's? I don't think so. As for passing, I think a lot of the problem is too little experience playing together. Sure, there are a lot of lazy passes and too many passes to stationary targets, but it goes further. Often it's not the first pass that finds someone open, sometimes it's the third or fourth pass. And that means everyone has to know not only where they should be but also what everyone else is doing and what they are about to do. UConn is increasingly seeing zone defenses that take away a lot of the one on one skills of both Walker and Williams. Both try to drive and find themselves double or even triple teamed. Zones are beaten by ball movement. And pointing things out doesn't make a poster a downer, it's acknowledging reality. A poster doesn't have to be a cheerleader to be a fan. [/QUOTE]

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