Here's my take on how this team differs from the past and what needs to be corrected:

I don't think there is time for most of your points to be corrected. You could boost team speed by starting 3 guards, but the only talent that could make those three work is Talia, and she's just too young to count on after only a few games.

You also have only Taylor (and Jelena) who are crashing the boards, so if you start three guards, you still don't have rebounders. If you had a board crasher at the 4 spot, that would help tremendously as well. Thus far, we're not seeing Taya hit the boards as well as she did as a sophomore.

I don't think most of the starting 5 are playing too many minutes. Aleah is playing a lot of minutes, but most of the others are not in most games. They've only played 112 games though and have been disrupted many times, so the team is probably not in game condition.

Front line players are not versatile. Taylor and Jelena are "5's" only at this point in their career. Taylor is stretching out her shots a bit though, so maybe someday she can play the 4. Taya is not an insdie player and probably not quick enough for the 3. Ellie is a good ball handler, decent rebounder, nice shooter, but so far doesn't excell at any of those, and is probably a "4" playing out of position, although I don't see her crashing the boards with other 4's.

I get the dribbling thing. Watching this game it was very noticable how much more Aleah dribbled compared to Stanford, yet I'm not really sure how much that hurts the team. If the team was a bit quicker overall, perhaps the passing could be crisper and the dribbling less. I would sure like to see passing like I saw from Stanford.

I just don't see a lot of options to correct those this season, but I do see improvements in most of those areas next year. The physical front line may be the most difficult to correct next season. I think we have to hope that Taya takes a leap and improves from what we saw as a sophomore, or Kennedy comes in and helps swipe the boards. Certainly having Taylor and Kennedy on D and blocking shots (along with Sasha) makes the D stronger, rebounding better, and team speed better.

Yes, teh fact that the 3 and 4 spot are not adding much, and the bench doesn't have a scorer coming in hurts as well, but what are the Beavs options at this point? It doesn't look like Jasmine is going to add punch. I love Savannah, but she doesn't appear to be ready to add a lot yet. Jelena and Jovannah both have their talents, but unless Jovannah comes in hot hitting threes (which could happen) you aren't going to get a lot of scoring from them either.

Good post beav74.

This is 46% of our roster!  Who's doing the evaluations?