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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4402862, member: 12088"] I’ve been wondering about this very thing. We don’t run the usual clear outs and isolations that teams like Iowa use. We use a motion offense and we use a lot of screens. In Geno’s “coach’s corner’ videos, he explains that the perimeter passing game and the screens are meant to force opponents who play man-to-man to switch a lot and see if they make a mistake. If the opposing team doesn’t make a mistake, then someone — last year it was Paige Christyn or Evina — would have to create a shot on their own. We have a few experienced shot creators in Azzi Caroline and Lou. Will they be as proficient at this as last year’s trio? I’d like to say a qualified “yes.” Azzi seems to me to be as skilled offensively as Paige, perhaps a better perimeter shooter and not quite the off-the-dribble creator Paige is. Many of us have wondered if she will show a similar “take charge” attitude on the court. We’ve already seen that Caroline is ready to do exactly this. Lou has shown these same skills, perimeter shooting and creating of the dribble, but only against mid-major opponents. Against Indiana and Texas, she still scored, but not with quite same facility as in the MAAC. I think we’ll miss Christyn’s great offensive creativity off the dribble. She was a streaky perimeter shooter. But she really knew how to take the ball to the rim, with an explosive first step and really strong hands and arms. And she could go left or right with equal proficiency. Evina had some of this, too, but not quite as powerfully as Christyn. What she had in abundance was great instincts and court vision. She knew when a defender was off balance, when she could blow past them, or force a defensive foul. [/QUOTE]

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