11-26-2012, 04:27 PM
[And, now, back to basketball]
My impression of the game was that it wasn't particularly impressive. The first half was good, even impressive at times, but the second half was weak. If you want to blame the weak offensive output of the second half (won 28-21 by Stanford) on the subs, consider the first 6.5 minutes when the full starting lineup was in and Stanford only won 9-6 (which, by the way, works out to 28-19 for a half). [Admittedly, Tara might have had them working on some aspect of the game, versus scoring. I would say that the score is somewhat meaningless above, say, a 25 point differential.]
On the bright side, Stanford had the highest assist/FG ratio in this young season, but it only equals last year's average (58%).
Our 3PtA/FGA ratio was the highest of the season at 39%, but that's fine since we shot more effectively (10/24 = 42%, 1.26pts per 3ptA) from 3pt range vs 2pt range (21/37 = 57%, 1.14pts per 2ptA).
However, we had our worst outing for rebounding on the offensive end. We only got 28% of the possible rebounds (last year's average was 41%). I suppose some of that could be blamed on the relatively high percentage (14/30 of the FG misses) of the missed shots were threes (longer bounce, at least 1 fewer potential rebounder)
I was surprised that we had no fast break points. But, if you didn't notice, it was our largest margin of victory so far.
As everyone has noted, Amber was impressive. Toni was less so. Joslyn also deserves special notice. Tara kept her in the game for 4 minutes longer than anyone else. I felt she was there to stabilize the game when the subs were in, and of course, she was shooting very well.
Last year, I wasn't particularly hopeful that Bonnie would be able to contribute significantly to the team. She's really improved and can contribute more than those instant 3s.
I think it was about midway through the second half when I saw Jasmine react as though her foot was hurt at the offensive end and was limping slightly as she headed back on defense. I didn't see the cause, but she no longer was favoring it by the next time Stanford was on offense.
I also believe that Chiney has advanced the other aspects of her game. I think the 3-on-3 basketball helped that.
When I look at the season statistics, I see some difference from last year that you might expect. But since it is still so early in the season and we've played (generally) weak teams, I don't put much faith in the statistics so far.
I will say that I think we are incredibly deep with high quality players. We no longer are a team with a strong first team and a passable second team, as we've been for many years. The second team (here, 4 players) has become a good team, with each of them able to come in and contribute something special. I believe the players in general really improved over the off-season. I would suspect that Tara laid out how they could win if they each improved as they have, and the players did what they needed over the summer.
For this game, this shows the net change in the score (NetPts) while each player is in the game, along with their total time. NetP/G is the result of normalizing the NetPts to a 40 minute game. As has been pointed out, this isn't sufficient to evaluate a player as it doesn't account for the other teammates while a player is in, nor does it account for the opponent's players during those minutes. (This is from the Play-by-Play, which is sometimes inaccurate.)
Player        Min NetPts NetP/G
Camp, Jasmine    16:27   6 14.59
Greenfield, Taylor 23:45  24 40.42
James, Sara     11:51   8 27.00
Kokenis, Toni    11:03  10 36.20
Lakhian, Kiran    1:30   0  0.00
Ogwumike, Chiney  26:23  28 42.45
Orrange, Amber   25:38  32 49.93
Picknell, Tess    8:27  -1 -4.73
Ruef, Mikaela    21:17  22 41.35
Samuelson, Bonnie  23:12  24 41.38
Tinkle, Joslyn   30:27  37 48.60
My impression of the game was that it wasn't particularly impressive. The first half was good, even impressive at times, but the second half was weak. If you want to blame the weak offensive output of the second half (won 28-21 by Stanford) on the subs, consider the first 6.5 minutes when the full starting lineup was in and Stanford only won 9-6 (which, by the way, works out to 28-19 for a half). [Admittedly, Tara might have had them working on some aspect of the game, versus scoring. I would say that the score is somewhat meaningless above, say, a 25 point differential.]
On the bright side, Stanford had the highest assist/FG ratio in this young season, but it only equals last year's average (58%).
Our 3PtA/FGA ratio was the highest of the season at 39%, but that's fine since we shot more effectively (10/24 = 42%, 1.26pts per 3ptA) from 3pt range vs 2pt range (21/37 = 57%, 1.14pts per 2ptA).
However, we had our worst outing for rebounding on the offensive end. We only got 28% of the possible rebounds (last year's average was 41%). I suppose some of that could be blamed on the relatively high percentage (14/30 of the FG misses) of the missed shots were threes (longer bounce, at least 1 fewer potential rebounder)
I was surprised that we had no fast break points. But, if you didn't notice, it was our largest margin of victory so far.
As everyone has noted, Amber was impressive. Toni was less so. Joslyn also deserves special notice. Tara kept her in the game for 4 minutes longer than anyone else. I felt she was there to stabilize the game when the subs were in, and of course, she was shooting very well.
Last year, I wasn't particularly hopeful that Bonnie would be able to contribute significantly to the team. She's really improved and can contribute more than those instant 3s.
I think it was about midway through the second half when I saw Jasmine react as though her foot was hurt at the offensive end and was limping slightly as she headed back on defense. I didn't see the cause, but she no longer was favoring it by the next time Stanford was on offense.
I also believe that Chiney has advanced the other aspects of her game. I think the 3-on-3 basketball helped that.
When I look at the season statistics, I see some difference from last year that you might expect. But since it is still so early in the season and we've played (generally) weak teams, I don't put much faith in the statistics so far.
I will say that I think we are incredibly deep with high quality players. We no longer are a team with a strong first team and a passable second team, as we've been for many years. The second team (here, 4 players) has become a good team, with each of them able to come in and contribute something special. I believe the players in general really improved over the off-season. I would suspect that Tara laid out how they could win if they each improved as they have, and the players did what they needed over the summer.
For this game, this shows the net change in the score (NetPts) while each player is in the game, along with their total time. NetP/G is the result of normalizing the NetPts to a 40 minute game. As has been pointed out, this isn't sufficient to evaluate a player as it doesn't account for the other teammates while a player is in, nor does it account for the opponent's players during those minutes. (This is from the Play-by-Play, which is sometimes inaccurate.)
Player        Min NetPts NetP/G
Camp, Jasmine    16:27   6 14.59
Greenfield, Taylor 23:45  24 40.42
James, Sara     11:51   8 27.00
Kokenis, Toni    11:03  10 36.20
Lakhian, Kiran    1:30   0  0.00
Ogwumike, Chiney  26:23  28 42.45
Orrange, Amber   25:38  32 49.93
Picknell, Tess    8:27  -1 -4.73
Ruef, Mikaela    21:17  22 41.35
Samuelson, Bonnie  23:12  24 41.38
Tinkle, Joslyn   30:27  37 48.60