10-19-2015, 12:05 PM
Mike, that was great. I have a few additional comments:
1. Alanna - what I heard was that she has some fatigue (remember she was playing on the AUS team later into the summer) so my sense was that
Tara is just letting Alanna get some extra rest.
2. Lili - she is fine; a personal friend of the family was sitting behind me so during the scrimmage we spoke. Lili was away for the weekend visiting an ill relative.
3. agreed on the status of the other returning players (and I saw Kaylee miss more than 2 free throws badly). Other than McCall and Bri, I frankly didn't see much evidence of significant improvement in anyone, which was a bit disappointing. Am looking forward to seeing that jump in Kaylee Johnson to become more effective offensively. However, without seeing Brittany, it's hard to tell her status.
4. Freshmen -- their play was pretty consistent with their play during the summer at the SF ProAm. I will note here that the second time I saw Coffee play this summer, she looked much more confident and comfortable than earlier. While not in Jane Appel's league, with work I think Coffee can achieve better results than Sarah Boothe. Let's hope the foot heals and isn't a stress fracture.
5. On the rules, I thought Tara also mentioned a change to the results of a timeout when one is getting close to the 10 seconds to advance the ball midcourt: up until now if you were 8 or 9 seconds in and called a time-out, you got the 10 seconds reinstated when passing the ball back into court but this year it will remain at only 1-2 seconds until the violation.
1. Alanna - what I heard was that she has some fatigue (remember she was playing on the AUS team later into the summer) so my sense was that
Tara is just letting Alanna get some extra rest.
2. Lili - she is fine; a personal friend of the family was sitting behind me so during the scrimmage we spoke. Lili was away for the weekend visiting an ill relative.
3. agreed on the status of the other returning players (and I saw Kaylee miss more than 2 free throws badly). Other than McCall and Bri, I frankly didn't see much evidence of significant improvement in anyone, which was a bit disappointing. Am looking forward to seeing that jump in Kaylee Johnson to become more effective offensively. However, without seeing Brittany, it's hard to tell her status.
4. Freshmen -- their play was pretty consistent with their play during the summer at the SF ProAm. I will note here that the second time I saw Coffee play this summer, she looked much more confident and comfortable than earlier. While not in Jane Appel's league, with work I think Coffee can achieve better results than Sarah Boothe. Let's hope the foot heals and isn't a stress fracture.
5. On the rules, I thought Tara also mentioned a change to the results of a timeout when one is getting close to the 10 seconds to advance the ball midcourt: up until now if you were 8 or 9 seconds in and called a time-out, you got the 10 seconds reinstated when passing the ball back into court but this year it will remain at only 1-2 seconds until the violation.