I stepped back after reading this thread and the
How important is +/- thread, and although I would have liked Ice and Jana to have contributed more in last night's game, here are some thoughts. They are still fundamentally, a sophomore and a freshman. Ice averaged 17.5 minutes per game last year, and Jana is getting her first experience as a college player. When injured, a player can watch all the practices, the games, listen to in game adjustments, however until they get constant experience, the game slows for them, and they can execute the plays without thinking, it will be a little rocky. Geno and staff expect the team to perform a certain way, run their plays, and until they have the trust in a player, it will be difficult to get extended minutes.
I am not making any excuses for either of them, however neither have a significant amount of experience to draw upon. Ice seems to be hesitant, and Jana wants to make up for 1.5 years of not playing. I'd like to see Ice get the mindset of when she had to fill in for Aaliyah in the BE tourney last season, where she wasn't looking over her shoulder (IMHO). From a minutes/points/rebounds perspective, she had 22/8/3, 40/10/5, and 40/13/8. Jana just needs to slow down a bit, and focus on the little things, as it doesn't seem that the role she's playing now is the same when she played for Egypt.