Was The Tennessee Game The Turning Point For This Team This Season?

[TCC Kid]

Really interesting. I'd probably say it was a combination of injuries, opponents adjusting their defensive scheme and a recognition of our weaknesses (TOs in the half-court, poor boxing out) that contributed to the turning point which occurred after the TN game as you have observed.

As the season began Geno talked loudly about the Scoring he had on this team. And he did. With a high degree of accuracy. With firepower the Geno system ran like a top. As the scorers were injured ---coaches aren't dumb--coaches figured out the weakness of the Help Defense, the "back door plays" and where the new scoring would have to come from. Uconn was out rebounded, turnovers. too many. Even with Edwards as a bull in the post this was a precision team. Lou was very effective until teams used the DT defense against her. Tennessee perfected that. DT was tough and the banging, pulling, physical use inspired her to score.

 

[TCC Kid]

Absolutely right...the quality of play has been significantly degraded since that game...missed lay-ups, defensive lapses, mind-numbingly bad turnovers. Hope that they can turn it around!

When a lineup stops working, look inwardly. A change of line up usually helps--where does it come from.

 

[sun]

If there was a single turning point during the season then I think it would be when Azzi got injured during the Notre Dame game.
After that turnover's began to noticeably increase.
Nika was injured during the Princeton game immediately following Notre Dame, and in the next game against Maryland TO's shot up to 27.
Even after Nika returned to action against Florida State the TO's remained high at 20.
When Azzi played she had very few TO's.
I don't believe that the Huskies were ever the same team again after Azzi was injured.
She brought some consistency, precision & a dimension to the team that seems to be lacking since then.

 

[Goodgood]

I agree that it was the turning point. During a timeout, the Tennessee coach said "11 gets nothing!". Subsequently, all opposing coaches did something about No. 11. Our offense hasn't score much since.