Ok, somebody explain how Carleton was absolutely unstoppable the first half. She drove to the basket at will and looked like a pro playing against high school players. We only altered her shots with fouls! No other strategy seemed effective. She did what no UConn player was able to do! We kept UConn from driving in with the blocks of our bigs; but Carleton blew past two layers of defense like a hot knife through butter. It looked like a movie script as we simply were helpless to stop her will to score. Have not seen a player like that in a long time. How did that happen? One player kept up with our 5 for 20 mins before she hit the performance wall? Thoughts? Assessments?
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Looked pretty easy to explain. Our typical help side defense was not used, plus being guarded early by a slower player made the match up favorable to Carlton. Mulk rotated players so the baylor player guarding Carlton had faster hands and a quicker step and she still asked her players to go 1 on 1 with no help. This is not how we typically protect the paint. We will probably see this again when we play the better 3 point shooting teams.
On the offensive side, they collapsed into the paint and asked us to beat them on the outside. We dont typically play an outside in game but we handled the pressure and rallied in the second half. Was a fun game to watch.
On the offensive side, they collapsed into the paint and asked us to beat them on the outside. We dont typically play an outside in game but we handled the pressure and rallied in the second half. Was a fun game to watch.
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Five thoughts:
1. Carleton is a mature, Senior, legit All American talent. She's one of the best scorers in WBB today, at similar level nationally as Asia Durr, Katie Lou Samuelson, Arike Ogunbowale. She averages 20.3 points per game, and if you watch she's rarely taking bad shots or off balance shots. She has very high iq, and understands how to attack a defense. She's special.
2. Our scouting report had us prepared to guard the 3 point line, and ISU can put 5 players on the floor who are all capable of hitting the 3. As a result, they spread the floor and we were extended in our man defense all the way out to the line, which left the lane wide open for drives. The ISU game plan apparently anticipated this, and took advantage of all that empty space in the lane with drives to the hoop. Smart.
3. Mulkey admitted in post game presser that our defensive game plan was to stay tight with our assignment longer than normal out of respect for their 3 point shooting, which meant less help from weakside on drives. It was strange in the 1st half to see Carleton drive so often with no help coming, but that was the initial game plan.
4. We started the game with Lauren Cox guarding Carleton. If Carleton had stayed on the 3 point line and attempted to bomb from out there all game, Lauren would have been effective because it's hard to shoot over her length. Carleton was smart enough to recognize that she had the speed advantage and could drive around Lauren, which she did effectively, causing us to switch Didi onto her late in 1st quarter.
5. ISU's offense runs a lot of motion and movement and screens and loops, many of which are designed to get the ball to Carleton in space. When Didi came into the game, she was working hard to deny the ball to Carleton, but their screens and movement were still able to eventually work the ball to her. In the 2nd half, it appeared to me that we adjusted and allowed our other defensive players to help and sag more on Carleton, which seemed to be effective.
1. Carleton is a mature, Senior, legit All American talent. She's one of the best scorers in WBB today, at similar level nationally as Asia Durr, Katie Lou Samuelson, Arike Ogunbowale. She averages 20.3 points per game, and if you watch she's rarely taking bad shots or off balance shots. She has very high iq, and understands how to attack a defense. She's special.
2. Our scouting report had us prepared to guard the 3 point line, and ISU can put 5 players on the floor who are all capable of hitting the 3. As a result, they spread the floor and we were extended in our man defense all the way out to the line, which left the lane wide open for drives. The ISU game plan apparently anticipated this, and took advantage of all that empty space in the lane with drives to the hoop. Smart.
3. Mulkey admitted in post game presser that our defensive game plan was to stay tight with our assignment longer than normal out of respect for their 3 point shooting, which meant less help from weakside on drives. It was strange in the 1st half to see Carleton drive so often with no help coming, but that was the initial game plan.
4. We started the game with Lauren Cox guarding Carleton. If Carleton had stayed on the 3 point line and attempted to bomb from out there all game, Lauren would have been effective because it's hard to shoot over her length. Carleton was smart enough to recognize that she had the speed advantage and could drive around Lauren, which she did effectively, causing us to switch Didi onto her late in 1st quarter.
5. ISU's offense runs a lot of motion and movement and screens and loops, many of which are designed to get the ball to Carleton in space. When Didi came into the game, she was working hard to deny the ball to Carleton, but their screens and movement were still able to eventually work the ball to her. In the 2nd half, it appeared to me that we adjusted and allowed our other defensive players to help and sag more on Carleton, which seemed to be effective.
All very helpful comments. Thanks!
Too bad Tennessee or Texas don't have a Bill or a Jeff. Both UT's are tragic coaching snafus
Did you see the 2nd, 3rd & 4th quarters? After scoring 24 points in the 1st quarter., she ended up with 4 points the final 3 quarters. Obviously, that speaks for itself without adding thoughts or assessments, assuming one watched the full game. It is very possible ISU is almost as good as UConn when they are clicking..fredbear said:
Ok, somebody explain how Carleton was absolutely unstoppable the first half. She drove to the basket at will and looked like a pro playing against high school players. We only altered her shots with fouls! No other strategy seemed effective. She did what no UConn player was able to do! We kept UConn from driving in with the blocks of our bigs; but Carleton blew past two layers of defense like a hot knife through butter. It looked like a movie script as we simply were helpless to stop her will to score. Have not seen a player like that in a long time. How did that happen? One player kept up with our 5 for 20 mins before she hit the performance wall? Thoughts? Assessments?
Ouch! I have to believe the UT in Knoxville is falling way under expectations for the talent they have. First time they lost 4 in a row since BEFORE the Pat Summitt era.fujobear said:
Too bad Tennessee or Texas don't have a Bill or a Jeff. Both UT's are tragic coaching snafus
GoldenBear said:Did you see the 2nd, 3rd & 4th quarters? After scoring 24 points in the 1st quarter., she ended up with 4 points the final 3 quarters. Obviously, that speaks for itself without adding thoughts or assessments, assuming one watched the full game. It is very possible ISU is almost as good as UConn when they are clicking..fredbear said:
Ok, somebody explain how Carleton was absolutely unstoppable the first half. She drove to the basket at will and looked like a pro playing against high school players. We only altered her shots with fouls! No other strategy seemed effective. She did what no UConn player was able to do! We kept UConn from driving in with the blocks of our bigs; but Carleton blew past two layers of defense like a hot knife through butter. It looked like a movie script as we simply were helpless to stop her will to score. Have not seen a player like that in a long time. How did that happen? One player kept up with our 5 for 20 mins before she hit the performance wall? Thoughts? Assessments?
She scored 16 in the 1st quarter, 8 in the 2nd quarter. She had a tremendous first half. Against the majority of teams in the country, Iowa State would have won this game.
They played extremely well. All they have for their effort is a 15 point loss. BU is pretty good...
How do we get the post game presser?
Carleton picked up her 3rd foul about 2 min into the 3rd quarter and had to let up on the offensive aggressiveness. And by the 4th she was pretty gassed.
I found press conference on YouTube.
Jan 22, 2019
Yes, Coach Kim acknowledged that the usual help-side defense was adjusted to better cover all the 3-pt shooters. Yea!! This adjustment will make a difference the rest of the season and certainly in tournament games. I'll take my chances with a few drives to the basket if we hold teams to 7-25 on three pointers as they did last night. And as noted, Carleton is an exceptional player.
Adding to the very well described reasons above, there was no help side on Carleton for most of the game because I believe Kim knew she would her points, but have to for them really hard and thus wear down. The other players for ISU are also very good outside shooters but much easier to shut down. So Carlton had her way in the first quarter, but no one else. Then D. D. Richardson and even Moon some in the later quarters held a very tired Carleton almost nothing. Thus a win. Carleton will play professionaly. She is very quick, but Mulkey's defensive strategy won out. This game also helped us practice our short mid-range shots with lots of success.fredbear said:
Ok, somebody explain how Carleton was absolutely unstoppable the first half. She drove to the basket at will and looked like a pro playing against high school players. We only altered her shots with fouls! No other strategy seemed effective. She did what no UConn player was able to do! We kept UConn from driving in with the blocks of our bigs; but Carleton blew past two layers of defense like a hot knife through butter. It looked like a movie script as we simply were helpless to stop her will to score. Have not seen a player like that in a long time. How did that happen? One player kept up with our 5 for 20 mins before she hit the performance wall? Thoughts? Assessments?
Short answer to second half shut downJuicy
Out of curiosity I found a projection of the next WNBA draft and am surprised that Carleton isn't anywhere in the three rounds.
Wow, that's shocking. I just looked and probably saw the same mock draft you did, put out by website "draftsite". They take it through 3 rounds, 36 players, and Carleton is not projected.
Then there's another mock draft by "b-ball-index" which has her going in the 1st round at #11. That one feels more accurate to me.
Then there's another mock draft by "b-ball-index" which has her going in the 1st round at #11. That one feels more accurate to me.
WNBA Dallas WIngs Liz Cambage's trade request has sent the dominoes tumbling for draft rankings. Lots of rumors on possibilities that include 3 teams making a single trade ... especially with "Trader" Bill Laimbeer in the head coach mix.
Draftsite's 2019 Mock Draft includes Sabrina Ionescu who may/may not enter the draft. Also, 5 international players that did not play for USA universities are on the list. Those 6 players may have been enough to push Carleton off the projection.
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