It is happening repeatedly at least once per game since her Freshmen year. This year alone she has undercut Morgan Tuck and Stewie, Kelsey Mitchell , Diamond Deshields, Rebecca Greenwell, & Briana Butler. Dolson set many screens, some of them were illegal. Madison always undercuts undercutting is always illegal-per the rules.
I used to think this, but I don't any more - it is the style of offense Baylor runs vs. say Uconn or ND - all three teams have pretty similar assist numbers each year - around 20+/- per game - but in Baylor's offense only one player actually gets the assists. If the pass from Johnson doesn't lead to a shot, the ball comes back out to Johnson to make another pass. Johnson accounts for 41.5% of Baylor's assists v Allen at 31.9% and Moriah at 24.2%. This fact actually makes Baylor an easier team to defend - if you can keep the ball out of Johnson's hands and pressure her heavily when she has it, their offense can be slowed down, as their one loss this year proved when she was out injured.
Vowel guy - while I agree that DD gets a lot of criticism some of which is not deserved, and people tend to assume her 'attitude' is a team issue with no actual access to the team and what is really happening in the locker room, her stats are not good and not good comparatively to the rest of the team. She has put together a string of three decent games while the rest of the guards and wings have struggled more than usual which has raised her shooting percentage above them but it still is not pretty. You have two players shooting above 50% and they combined have taken 14 shots more than DD has by herself with her below 40% shooting - not the best ratio. And she has taken 34 more threes than the next most prolific three point shooter (37% more) and shoots them at the 5th best percentage on the team. The two best three point shooters on the team have taken fewer shots combined than DD. And her A/TO is 0.62 while the rest of the team is at 0.87 meaning she has 21% of the team turnovers and only 16% of the assist - her A/TO is worse than any player with more than 9 turnovers other than Russell.
That Warlick permitted Diamond to do these things over the length of the season would indicate that that's what passes for her offensive plan. If Diamond were ignoring her coaches and just doing her own thing, she would (presumably) be sitting on the bench. I think Warlick's offense is "Get the ball inside or to Diamond. Whichever".
I think you raised the right question when trying to assess DD....are her numbers the result of too much being asked of her or are they due to her taking on too much herself and operating outside the coaching plan? I guess one could conclude that its either subpar coaching for a bad plan or subpar coaching for not sitting DD. However, despite the coaching issue, with the possible exception of the last couple of games, DD's numbers point to serious personal performance issues.
Good point, but in fact for the last month of the regular season DD was on the bench and not starting, and was on a very short leash when she got into games - if she mad a couple of turnovers she might only get 5 minutes in the first half of a game.
Billings was a beast. She was tenacious on the boards and is a very athletic player. I love her game as a forward/post.
Oh, you mean like the comments from Linnae Harper regarding the chemistry problems at Tennessee, which in part helped her eliminate them and decide on Ohio State as her destination for her transfer? "Harper visited Tennessee two weeks ago, and while she liked the talent, the palpable chemistry issues within the team was something Harper noticed, sources told Swish Appeal"
But I don't think anyone who is talking actually knows the 'source' of the chemistry issues. It is easy to assume they are related to DD, but she was there last year and no one was talking chemistry issues.
She was on the bench last year and not playing. That's a far cry from being on the court like she is this year. You are correct - no one has "named names". But too many things point to 1 or 2 players.