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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 4059287, member: 6620"] When Dallas cut the lead to three, they had their most potentially dangerous offensive lineup in: Sabally, Harrison, Gray, Ogunbowale and Mabrey, with Mabrey (mostly) breaking the Chicago pressure and Arike and Sabou doing the scoring. Once Sabally had to leave the game (stomach cramps? ankle?), the spell was broken. Then, HC Johnson started doing her patented "give me 5 minutes" with other players and that was kind of it. Plus, Sloot got going. Alarie. The folks at Her Hoops Stats just named her 2nd team All-Defense and I get it. She's ungainly agile in a coltish kind of way, but gets the job done on D and rebounding. And that's where I think going to Harrison and Sabally all the time hurt: the Sky outrebounded the Wings 47-35. Plus, there was no one at home (in the paint) on too many drives to the hoops or weakside cuts. Alarie is a good obstacle. Would've had her (not Thornton or Kuier) spell Izzy or Sabou. For an alleged defensive-minded coach, Johnson makes some head-scratchers at times. Dallas front office and coaching staff need to figure out if they want to continue with this "might play 25 minutes, might play 10" approach. If they continue to employ the downhill fastbreak and ISO approaches, it could work (if the players buy in). However, it's got to be hard for a player to find her game-to-game rhythmn that way (see MoJeff, Mabrey, Gray, Alarie). Maybe a set philosophy and some key pruning of the roster would help.... [/QUOTE]

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