mrazz
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Post by mrazz on Feb 1, 2017 16:09:05 GMT -8
She got the award...and the loss. I don't like her because she doesn't wear the Orange and Black...and I think she's a dirty player. Would I have a different opinion if she did wear the Orange and Black? Probably--but I wouldn't be critiquing her game with the same eyes if that were the case. I don't like the extra elbows she throws just before her cuts to the basket. I don't like the way she will lock arms with her defender, then pull them thru the lane--and get the foul called on them. How does she get away with it? She sees the entire game, knows where the refs are and has an uncanny ability to get them to see what she wants them to see. And I hate her for that. I'm a Fan, it doesn't have anything to do with logic.
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Post by blueheron on Feb 2, 2017 7:00:01 GMT -8
Exactly. I and other Beavers fans would be happy as clams had this been a performance and career by a Beavers player. Don't speak for me. I'd be disappointed that we squandered a late lead and lost a game we should have won because our point guard thought she had to win it singlehandedly. So you would argue to not put the ball in the hands of your best player down the stretch to win the game? |
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Post by bennyskid on Feb 2, 2017 10:00:50 GMT -8
"So you would argue to not put the ball in the hands of your best player down the stretch to win the game?"
Sure, if that's your only option. But a better coach works all season long to develop multiple options.
I didn't watch the UW game, but I was at Gill Sunday. The headline was Sydney draining three treys in the last few minutes, but just as important to our victory was the in-bound play at 3:25 (where the defense collapsed on Syd, who dished to Bre for the lay-up/foul with a second on the shot clock) - which gave us our first lead - and Kolbie's power-move to put us up by 6 with 53 seconds left. Those were big plays by players who barely saw the court last year. Those plays worked because SR spends all season developing those options and making sure that every player is ready for crunch time.
In contrast, it looks to me like UW is *regressing*. In their biggest home game of the year, in front of 10000 fans, they had one player besides Plum make TWO baskets, and no other player make more than ONE! I didn't watch the game, but that does not sound like good basketball.
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Post by nabeav on Feb 2, 2017 10:54:56 GMT -8
This is not the best analogy, and I realize this is a real Al Bundy statement to make, but my last high school basketball game, we lost in our league playoffs to a team we had no business losing to. I scored half our points (I think we lost 38-35 in one of the worst games you can imagine), because quite literally nobody on our team could shoot the ball that day. Our all-state player averaging close to 20 a game was 0-9 from the field. Sometimes bad shooting days happen. Again, I didn't watch UW @ Stanford, but here are the season shooting percentages for some other girls on the team and how they fared against Stanford:
Chantel Osahor - .464 (1-10)
Aarion McDonald- .467 (1-7)
Natalie Romeo - .399 (0-4)
Katie Collier - .484 (0-5)
All of those shot totals are roughly in line with their average game.....so they all had extremely subpar shooting nights. Meanwhile, Kelsey Plum, who shoots an insane .535 from the field and .453 from 3point range was 17-27 (.630) from the field and 7-8 (.875) from deep. I don't need to watch that game to tell me that the right person was taking shots in that particular game....and she only too 42% of the shots attempted.
Furthermore, she only took 4 shots in the first quarter....making 3. The rest of the team shot 4/13. For the last 30 minutes of the game, the rest of her team shot 2/24.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to validate your point that Kelsey Plum is somehow a detriment to her basketball team. If anything, she's like LeBron during his first stint with the Cavs - literally the only reason they are relevant.
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Post by bennyskid on Feb 2, 2017 16:38:52 GMT -8
I don't think Plum is the problem. All along, I've been saying that it's a coach that relies on her too much and doesn't build a competitive culture. I'd love to have Plum on our team, but her numbers would look a lot like Syd's - and that would be good for everyone involved.
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Post by Werebeaver on Feb 2, 2017 17:52:07 GMT -8
I don't think Plum is the problem. All along, I've been saying that it's a coach that relies on her too much and doesn't build a competitive culture. I'd love to have Plum on our team, but her numbers would look a lot like Syd's - and that would be good for everyone involved. I would agree with that. |
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