[treefan]

Against Xavier, the play was out of a timeout, from the sideline almost to the midcourt stripe.  Actually, our defense of the last scoring rush reminded me of the Muskies\' - people going for the steal and not getting in front of the ball-handler to force east-west movement.

More generally, my criticism of our end-of-period play revolves around holding the ball in the backcourt for until about 10-12 seconds are left, then trying to run a play; it almost never turned out well.  The possession that reminded me more of that was whenever Mikaela was forced to bring up the ball (and I was yelling at the screen "Hello, seniors?  One of you should come back to get this.")  Especially the last one, when she was forced into an awkward three-point shot that led to the fifth Mel foul.

VG

completely agree VG. And IF Chiney had not fouled out, Ruef would not have been in there taking that ill advised 3. Whoulda, shoulda, coulda.

[treefan]

Against Xavier, the play was out of a timeout, from the sideline almost to the midcourt stripe.  Actually, our defense of the last scoring rush reminded me of the Muskies\' - people going for the steal and not getting in front of the ball-handler to force east-west movement.

More generally, my criticism of our end-of-period play revolves around holding the ball in the backcourt for until about 10-12 seconds are left, then trying to run a play; it almost never turned out well.  The possession that reminded me more of that was whenever Mikaela was forced to bring up the ball (and I was yelling at the screen "Hello, seniors?  One of you should come back to get this.")  Especially the last one, when she was forced into an awkward three-point shot that led to the fifth Mel foul.

VG

completely agree VG. And IF Chiney had not fouled out, Ruef would not have been in there taking that ill advised 3. Whoulda, shoulda, coulda.