eight players over 16 minutes per game. Seven of those eight are 6' or taller.
Three player average double figures: Beers 17.5 & 10.7 rebs., Gardner 11.4 & 6.7 rebs. and von Voelhoffen 10.9.
Five player shoot 35% or better from three.
They have no seniors or graduate students.
They took 33 threes vs Nebraska and made 10. In a loss to Stanford in the PAC 12 tournament they took 18 and made 4. (In those two recent games they averaged 11 turnovers.
In terms of the "scout", they are quite opposite from Old Miss. Instead of quick, athletic and aggressive on defense, they are big and not overly quick or athletic. Another major difference is they can really shoot the three and thrive off that. Lastly, as you stated Beers is big and strong around the basket.
Here is where the short bench hurts. This is a team we should run. I predict we will play mostly man x man. The only way we can limit Beers is to front her and not let her catch the ball down low.
Another key is to drive if they play us man.
That makes playing zone a completely different proposition than it was vs OleMiss. Niele Will some tough choices to make. Play man - how do you contend with Beers inside? Play Zone - How do you contain all their shooters?
I think we’ll see some of both, which we’ve done with success this season.
But they have several others that can contribute while we have just 3
Nat has to defend without fouling-last 70 minutes with just 6 fouls
over power Nat. I guess that leaves Maddy. She could probably do it but I’d worry about foul trouble.
Beers appears taller than 6’2. She is definitely a ‘wide body’ (not meant in a bad way) post. She uses her size to her advantage in h he low post.
front her. I wouldn't want Maddy there for the same reason you bring up, too
valuable to get into foul trouble.
enough to make it work.
If they are not quick but big (& can shoot 3s) then you have to stick to the zone or risk ISO postups
Use our quickness to swarm just like the last game
They just have to guard the 3 a little more & they have a much better inside threat than Ole Miss
Let Hannah dribble drive & all will be well
maybe Nat at 6’5” can bother her enough without fouling
Hannah stealing the ball from her once or twice would help
zone. We’ve done that successfully at times this year. It might help to keep them off balance. I trust Coach Ivey will come up with a good game plan.
Yumamss1, the HoF coach, will come through