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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 4842105, member: 7492"] I am not sure who or how you qualified your "last 5 games against significant opponents" as none of those numbers seem to represent UCLA, Texas or NC State, teams ranked ahead of us and to whom we have lost. The fact of the matter is we shoot the ball better than all but South Carolina (who is having an outstanding shooting season). So yes, more shots for us by pushing the pace, means we score more vs. opponents with lower shooting percentages. We will struggle mightily on the rebounding effort so we need to limit turnovers, create turnovers and shoot more to make more. In the 3 games I mentioned, we made less shots-89 to 81, made less 3's 25-20 and lost the free throws made 47-34, resulting in being outscored 250-216. And we were out rebounded 117-94. The good new for me is the line-up has changed to push the pace with point guards but we do lose our best open court player in Aubrey. Ultimately, we will need Ice to continue to develop her game to get us 15-20 min a game and help with the rebounding. And yes, we need to have Paige, Nika, Q and KK take more 3 point shots as we are averaging 19.3 shots per game which is less shots than Iowa (26.7), Stanford, (24.4), UCLA (22.4) and Colorado (21.7). Considering we make 38.3% that would help us. Ash, Ice and Aaliyah need to resist taking 3s as their percentages are not so good. [/QUOTE]