Let me premise this by stating two things:
1. I only watch about 5-10 womens games a year, so I don't have a superb feeling for all her coaching abilities, but I do have nearly a decade of watching 5-10 games...
2. I know most folks are here only to argue and be idiots. I'm not trying to be either. I am NOT a regular poster and therefore, hopefully, will not be blasted by the klondogs of the world.
Having 24 hours to swallow watching the game last night between the Lady Cats and Vanderbilt has once again convinced me that KSU has had a very respectable W B-ball program due to having great athletes...not great coaching. As I recall a former Cat saying, we could just out-talent teams.
The announcers kept reminding everyone how Vandy had lost its two centers and were playing a 5'9 Guard in the post against Gipson. Hmm... Sounds like a pretty decent match-up if you ask me....PROVIDING you don't play man-to-man defense and allow them to spread us all over the court the entire game. I'm not a rocket scientist, and I'll never be able to PROVE this, but I'm guessing Shaq in his prime couldn't guard a 40 year old MJ one-on-one. To think Gipson (and I love her to death) could guard a quick little guard 1on1 with NO help is asinine. I watched the Lady Commodores shot 5-15 (with 1 being a hop-skip-jump prayer at the end) from 3, yet over 50% on their two's, because they were continiously getting layups and/or getting to the line. With the two dominate post players on the court, why weren't we protecting them and setting up in a 2-3 zone? Isn't the entire goal of a 2-3 to force them to shot outside shots from the wings and top of the key area? It also would slow the game down some...something we appeared to be looking to do. If your going to play two bigs against a quicker athletic team, once again, it only makes sense to me.
I hope some/one of you with superior basketball knowledge will enlighten me.
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