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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3556797, member: 1220"] Hit the expand button to see my item by item response to WestCoast's post. they are written within his post. [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]Enough of this he said she said dialogue. I mentioned earlier how the other guards on the floor with ball dominate player's games are hurt. I already mentioned how Goodwin's game picked up once she was coming off the bench and no longer on the floor with both Pivec and Slocum. Generally, the part of the game that is hurt is the perimeter shooting, because there is not enough ball movement. Along with if too much time is taken dribbling with little time left on the clock shots are taken in desperation mode decreasing shooting percentages. One thing that hurt Pivecs draft status was the drop in her 3pt percentage. It went from .417 last season to .361 in about the same amount of attempts. Coincidence? McWilliams, who was on the floor with both Slocum and Pivec last season but not in the prior years - shooting percentage dropped from .455 to 392. Especially her 3pt percentage ( perimeter shooting ) from .438 to .362. Other aspects of her game dropped but for the purposes of this post, I only focused on the shooting. When you add that Goodman also shot better with one of them or both off the floor it might just say something. Out of curiosity, I just looked up the shooting percentages of the guard, before and after Slocum at Maryland. the findings paralleled the findings at OS. Shatori Walker- Kimbrough percentages dropped as well. As a junior before Slocum got there she had a really good .543 and that dropped 22 points, but still a really good percentage the year with Slocum. Now her 3pt percentage was more telling. She went from an outstanding .545 on 134 attempts to an also good .450 off 160 attempts the year with Slocum. That is a significant percentage drop and the more attempts with fewer makes might be attributed to having to take more desperation shots as a result of the clock running down. Now one person outside shooting stats dropping by itself might not mean much, but every player on the floor with Slocum's stats dropping can not be ignored. This is something that is often ignored by ball dominate players fans. They ignore the effect that kind of game has on other players. No, I did not say Slocum ( or Pivec ) were gunners. For the amount of time, they had the ball they did not really shoot or score that much. Slocum's stats remained about the same throughout her college career. She did not really score enough to be considered a scorer. She stayed about 14 a game throughout her career. From what I observed, Slucom was actually a better and more effective scorer when she did not dominate the ball so much. When she operates within the natural flow of the game and does not try to force things she is very effective. She played that way in the early part of the season. It was in the latter part that her game and also her shooting percentages dropped. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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