If by her you mean Crystal that was certainly part of it. However, some of that was self-inflicted. If you are the PG chartered with running the offense and often the balls ends up in your hands with the shot clock running down some of that falls on you.
The only way this works is if a team adopts the Houston Rockets style of BB. That is, start at the arc. If the defender is off you hoist the 3. If he closes to fast, dribble penetrate and go for the layup. Get your defender in the air and get the foul shot. The analytics say these are the shots that get the most bang for your buck. The problem is 1) If your big scorer is cold others have to take up the slack from the line and have the ability to penetrate and draw the foul. 2) During high leverage moments and games, conference playoffs and championship games, referee's tend to let players play and allow more physical play. This has the effect of both throwing off a players shots and reduces the amount of FT's. It gets into players heads. Meaning this style has yet to show it's a championship style.
As Allen Iverson once said when asked why he shoots so much, "I get the ball across the line with 20 secs left on the clock. I pass the ball to a guy, he passes the ball to another guy, he passes to another, the ball gets back to me with 5 secs left on the clock. What do you want me to do? I gotta take the shot."
You are referring to the same Houston Rocket team that just lost to the Warriors in 6 with Durant on the sideline.
While I love Crystal, and she has an arsenal of spectacular “playground” moves that she’s developed over the years playing against much bigger opponents, there is really no comparison between Crystal and Ionescu when it comes to finishing at the rim.
I think you (we) may be straying too far from my original point by comparing Sabrina to Crystal. One other data point in an attempt to get back on point. Crystal's 53% of FGA being from beyond 3pt line is a UCONN program high water mark. Not even that great markswoman KML reach such a percentage.
Yes, I was talking about Crystal- sorry for not making that clear. The offense was not just Crystals fault though- earlier in the season, you only had two players looking to score, so that killed the offensive flow when other teams Knew that KLS or NC were the ones to focus on. It was better later in the season when everyone was looking to score.
I’m afraid you’re mistaken. During her senior year KML took 248 threes out of 396 total shots, or 62% of all her shots. Not to be outdone, the following season Lou, only a freshman, took 198 threes out of her 298 shots, or 66% of all her shots.
Come on you are a better debater than. You can't just pull the Geno was "ok" with it so I must be right card.
That was going to be my response too. Its that fact that the opponent won't know who will eventually take the shot whether that be a 3pt or drive to the basket.
The truth is, you wear me out, because your arguments are usually persuasive. You can only imagine my relief when I checked on KML’s shooting stats.Come on you are a better debater than. You can't just pull the Geno was "ok" with it so I must be right card.
An opponent never knows anything as fact. All scouts are based on playing percentages and tendencies. Crystal's scout says more than half her shots are from behind the line. It also says she can go left or right. When she is going left play her to pass when going right play her to shoot. Here is something else to consider many of Crystal's shot are of the wide open variety. Can't remember a time when an opponent had to stress about Crystal from behind the arc. Maybe the regional final against South Carolina in 2018 when she was on fire.
Yep. The same team with Harden that went 3-20 against the Jazz in game 3 this year, and 2-13 from deep in game 7 against the Warriors last year. Harden's game is dependent on making outside shots and getting to the line. If he fails in the former and the refs swallow the whistle on the latter his team is doooooooooooooooooooomed.
Iverson had no concept of team basketball, street or school yard basketball yes but team basketball nope.
We do.
In fairness, though, I guess that means there were 17 other pages of posts talking about Westbrook to UCONN? I think overall the fans are beyond thrilled. Yesterday Geno addressed the comments she made after the vols lost in the 2nd round of the NCAA's and said something like "heat of the moment, probably not the best thing to say, but we talked about it and it had no impact (on my decision to recruit her)".
And I'm just speaking on a personal level.
