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If UCF was a better team their bet on us shooting the 3 poorly would have paid off.

Good to win and had good effort on the boards today. Shots just weren’t falling at their usual rate. Thank goodness for AJ!
 
Didn't watch but it seems like the ladies are doing the 'it was the worst of times, it was the best of times' thing to a T.

Good for them to get healthy and get some things going.
 
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Yeah but the people that missed 20 three pointers weren’t three point threats either.
Harris and Hare, who combined to go 0-12, are each shooting around 40% on the season. Gotta be process oriented and believe in a reversion to the mean at some point. If you can get a 40% 3PT shooter open looks, that's a good shot in my book. And better than many of the shots we were getting in the game.
 
Harris and Hare, who combined to go 0-12, are each shooting around 40% on the season. Gotta be process oriented and believe in a reversion to the mean at some point. If you can get a 40% 3PT shooter open looks, that's a good shot in my book. And better than many of the shots we were getting in the game.
In 11 conference games, Hare is 10/41 (24.3%). I like her and I'm cheering for her to break out, but it is what it is.

In 11 conference games, Williams is 21/62 (33.8%).

In 11 conference games, Harris is 16/40 (40%).

So Harris and Jackson are good shooters. Williams is just enough of a threat, but teams are more willing to let her shoot rather than let Audi go 1 on 1.

You might think we have 4 good shooters. But we really only have 2, and one of them is a poor defender.
 
Harris and Hare, who combined to go 0-12, are each shooting around 40% on the season. Gotta be process oriented and believe in a reversion to the mean at some point. If you can get a 40% 3PT shooter open looks, that's a good shot in my book. And better than many of the shots we were getting in the game.
Hare is shooting (24%) from 3 in Big 12 play if my math is correct. We badly need her to shoot better because Beaty isn’t a 3 pt threat and Bill doesn’t play Wilson. I’m glad AJ is back. She was great today. It is good EP is getting minutes, but it is important we have shooters on the floor with her. Also thankful for Jada’s mid range game.
 
In 11 conference games, Hare is 10/41 (24.3%). I like her and I'm cheering for her to break out, but it is what it is.

In 11 conference games, Williams is 21/62 (33.8%).

In 11 conference games, Harris is 16/40 (40%).

So Harris and Jackson are good shooters. Williams is just enough of a threat, but teams are more willing to let her shoot than let Audi go 1 on 1.

You might think we have 4 good shooters. But we really only have 2, and one of them is a poor defender.
What’s crazy is that earlier in the season Hare was like 3rd in the nation in effective FG% at 75%, but the conference season has changed all that.
 
What’s crazy is that earlier in the season Hare was like 3rd in the nation in effective FG% at 75%, but the conference season has changed all that.
Hare is really struggling on the offensive side of the ball. She is having trouble making lay ups lately. Free Throws also. She is really having a hard time on the offensive end.
 
I'm just laughing watching Paulk figure out yet ANOTHER way to not take a shot. She seems very competent in about every other area. Just not confident on her shot or something. That needs to be fixed. She could be a BIG asset to us in the future. I mean, Like she could be AJ, Addy important next year.

OK, then she airballs a 3 as I'm typing. ha!
told my wife that was a pass not airball which nobody caught.
 
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It's good in theory, but WIlliams is not a good 3 point shooter. Hare in conference play has not been good from 3. Having Jackson back has been huge because she's a good shooter and actually makes defenses pay for doubling and tripling. When your main ball handler in Williams shoots 30% from 3, it makes it really easy to double and triple Crooks.

Simply put: We don't have 4 shooters. And if we were to put in our 4 "shooters" our defense and rebounding goes to hell. That's what we did during the losing streak.
going to disagree with about the shooters, we have them need some shot makers.lol
 
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Where did Willy disappear to at the end of the game? Wasn't on the bench or in the handshake line unless I'm misremembering.
 
Bill has learned from TJ that even when your offense is struggling, defense can win you games. And today, defense delivered the win as our offense was inconsistent. Don't know if anyone else agrees, but I thought Audi played much better defense today - she had something like 11 boards the last time I looked, and when there was a 50:50 rebound, more often than not, Audi hauled it in. She's a true competitor, and will contribute any way that she can, and today, while she still ended up in double figures scoring, her biggest contribution was on defense.
 
Well typing 1st then will read the game thread. Did I see great BB today? Nope, but it was a pretty entertaining game because both teams played pretty hard and both shot pretty poorly, sometimes it was pretty ragged but it was fun to watch. The gals got the W in the end wasn't all that close so what the heck it was a entertaining afternoon of BB, just not high level BB. Thank goodness AJ was hitting today.
 
Didn't see mentioned elsewhere nice video tribute to Bill F pregame from the other B12 coaches for setting the B12 win record. 2 extremely complimentary cameos from Sherri Coale and Kim Mulkey. Hopefully someone from the CF staff will get it posted.

Edit go to the Bill Fennelly thread @CycloneRulzzz has it covered for us!! Thanks Rulzzz!!
 
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In 11 conference games, Hare is 10/41 (24.3%). I like her and I'm cheering for her to break out, but it is what it is.

In 11 conference games, Williams is 21/62 (33.8%).

In 11 conference games, Harris is 16/40 (40%).

So Harris and Jackson are good shooters. Williams is just enough of a threat, but teams are more willing to let her shoot rather than let Audi go 1 on 1.

You might think we have 4 good shooters. But we really only have 2, and one of them is a poor defender.
Hare, a lot of times goes 1/2 or 1/3…and then she has games like today that are horrid at 1/7 or 0/7. As mentioned…she’s missed a bunch of layups and struggled at the free throw line. Just seems very weird that you’d lose your touch across the board like that.
 
Hare, a lot of times goes 1/2 or 1/3…and then she has games like today that are horrid at 1/7 or 0/7. As mentioned…she’s missed a bunch of layups and struggled at the free throw line. Just seems very weird that you’d lose your touch across the board like that.
She has the basketball version of the Yips...
 
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