Progress, but still a long way to go

Taya is the most versatile defender on our team. She guards anywhere from Haley Jones to Aliyah Boston. When OSU runs their offensive sets by passing into the high post, it is generally Taya at the high post making the next important pass. Taya is not a prolific scorer, but at 6'3" she does draw her defender away from the key with her ability to hit the 3-pointer. Taya is going to the rim a bit more this season, which is great to see. Taya is historically, one of our better free-throw shooters (percentage).

In general, I agree with what you say about Taya....But it's a bit of problem when you write: "this team could really benefit from her being more aggressive about looking to score." The problem with this is that Taya has not acquired the skill set to be more aggressive when it comes to scoring.

She has not learned to attack the basket off the dribble, she has not learned to post low with her back to the basket, she has not acquired a pull up jumper.
In essence, she can nail an open 3, and once in a while grab an offensive board......
She has been in the program 4 years now, so it's not in the cards that she is going to suddenly get offensive skills at this stage of her career.

Now, this is no put down on Taya or her game. She is more than solid in playing her role on offense, she plays good defense, and she rebounds. As someone pointed out, Rueck didn't play her for 40 minutes against Tennessee in her Frosh year for no reason. But if you watch that game closely (as many of you have) you will easily see that her offensive skills then were pretty much what they are now....

Taya is at her best when she has teammates who can score, who can attack, who can make defenders sag or collapse so that she can square up for 3s...But, on her own, she has remarkably limited offensive skills.

When Talia and Kennedy get their offensive act together you will see Taya get more and more open shots - - and almost all of them will come from the wing or the baseline corner and they will be 3s.....

I'm a big Taya fan, and I admire her game. But I do not attribute to her skills that she does not possess.
GO BEAVS!!

I for one would welcome her back.   Barring any grad transfers she would be the lone senior.

Good comment gustafgg.....I think Taya is now fully recovered from her major injury a couple of years ago and back in her groove.....this is what I wrote after the N.Iowa game-----...."and Corosdale was excellent tonight....she was moving really well on the court and creating havoc on defense blocking shots and was solid offensively including a great quick post move where she faked one-way--turned the other way and scored and also making a clutch 3 in the 4th Q when N-Iowa was rallying."

Unless there are either injuries or transferring out there is very little chance that that the new freshmen will start from game one.   Maybe by conference play but even then I doubt it. 

I’ve seen all the girls referred to as experienced players in our system none of them are as polished offensively as The kids coming in next year. The ladies on board have very few developed post skills even after two to 4 years playing here. We are talking apples and oranges. Have you ever watched Timea shoot. She’s incredible. She is far advanced to Taylor or Kennedy. These two girls have not quite the Ht but physically they are very strong ladies also. I don’t understand why Taylor who I think is a real strong lady. But hasn’t learned the foot work to drop step left or right with consistency. I feel bad for kids in the program who don’t show alot of improvement in our system. But I see this with games we are in against much smaller front lines this year. Our posts aren’t bad but are average and a lot of games can’t take over the other teams inside. Because they don’t understand how to position themselves properly and understand how to use there pivot foot elbow leverage to go sround there defender. Also both Kennedy and our 6/9 girls first instinct is to drop the ball down instead of keep it high. They want to dribble on the floor and move at 6/9. That means they will get the ball taken away most the time either by a steel or possession arrow jump ball. These habits hurt our chance inside to much. One man’s opinion.

Agree with all of the above. Incoming players will definitely be in the rotation and get a lot of mins. They just (in my opinion) won’t start right away as 1973 feels they will. 1973 may be right, I just don’t think so based on what I have seen over the years. Either way, love that we will add two top 10 players next year.