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Message: [QUOTE="jabstep, post: 4819225, member: 10340"] If you looked at the 3 points stats of Osborne and Rice historically including last year a good defensive strategy would be to let them bomb away and double down on Betts. Osborne didnt enter the WNBA because she needed to improve her 3 point production. The problem was that those two had a good shooting game against us. Oh well if they can continue to shoot well they will be tough to handle. Iowa beat SC with the same strategy last year. Dawn has now some shooters making it difficult to only focus on Cardosa. Against NCST, if you were to study Rivers outside shooting stats you would obviously try and stay in front of her because she get her points on fast breaks and drives to the hoop. In the off season she also worked extremely hard on her 3 point and mid range shooting and surprised us with her new found skills. Against Texas, if you looked at Harmon's stats before the game a good strategy would also let her shoot from the outside. She also had a terrible foul shooting PCT previously. She changed that perception at least against us. She also drove at will for short pump up jumpers in the lane against Nika. She would have a trouble shooting against Aubrey I think but we needed Aubrey for rebounding which is our most glaring deficiency. I think our defense is good and will get better as the coaches will have a better understanding of players current strengths and weaknesses as the season goes on. [/QUOTE]