Random thoughts:
Liking our defensive rebounding. In addition to our usual suspects, Wilson had some great grabs, and Jerome was fighting and winning some with some nice box out moves. And Lacie is just an insane, fast-moving steal machine - it's like she's a podcast playing at 1.5x while everyone else on the court is stuck at 1x.
Right now, our bigs seem to be the only ones feeling their shot - I missed a few early minutes, but until Carrington hit a trey with 3 minutes remaining in the half, Fingall and Smith are the only ones I've seen make non-layup baskets, including treys. They've mostly been playing zone, and it's seemed to be fairly effective at keeping us from cutting inside, though we started to crack it late in the half. Not coincidentally, once we hit a few treys, they stopped sagging, and then we had cuts inside. Not sure why, but with no fouls Fingall went out and Coffee went in for significant minutes at the end.
I still have trouble figuring out when we're running Princeton sets and when we're not, but I will say this: when we go cold from outside, the zone still seems to shut us down. We have more and better three-point shooters than we did last season, but it seems like this is going to be a recurring problem.
Lastly, Dodson still seems to move like that teenaged dog whose legs grew six inches in a month and trips over itself - there was one Alley Oop from Williams that became more of an "Alley Oops" as Dodson just plowed into her defender. The contrast between how she controls her body in traffic and, say, Jerome, is really striking.
Liking our defensive rebounding. In addition to our usual suspects, Wilson had some great grabs, and Jerome was fighting and winning some with some nice box out moves. And Lacie is just an insane, fast-moving steal machine - it's like she's a podcast playing at 1.5x while everyone else on the court is stuck at 1x.
Right now, our bigs seem to be the only ones feeling their shot - I missed a few early minutes, but until Carrington hit a trey with 3 minutes remaining in the half, Fingall and Smith are the only ones I've seen make non-layup baskets, including treys. They've mostly been playing zone, and it's seemed to be fairly effective at keeping us from cutting inside, though we started to crack it late in the half. Not coincidentally, once we hit a few treys, they stopped sagging, and then we had cuts inside. Not sure why, but with no fouls Fingall went out and Coffee went in for significant minutes at the end.
I still have trouble figuring out when we're running Princeton sets and when we're not, but I will say this: when we go cold from outside, the zone still seems to shut us down. We have more and better three-point shooters than we did last season, but it seems like this is going to be a recurring problem.
Lastly, Dodson still seems to move like that teenaged dog whose legs grew six inches in a month and trips over itself - there was one Alley Oop from Williams that became more of an "Alley Oops" as Dodson just plowed into her defender. The contrast between how she controls her body in traffic and, say, Jerome, is really striking.