How about the fact that our leading scorer, Nia Moore, only played the first 5 minutes of the game and that's it. Not due to injury. Not due to foul trouble.
Per Warlick, "I didn't think she was giving us much so we went with someone else. Yeah, looking back maybe we should have played her more."
Let me get this straight. Your leading scorer doesn't "give you much" in the first 5 minutes of the game... and you sit her for the entire rest of the game??? MAYBE you should have played her more than 5 minutes? Really?
Warlick may possibly be a more inept head coach than Dooley was. And that's very hard to do. She needs to go back to the bench and let someone else lead. This team, as it stands now, will lose 10 games easily. They're looking at an 8 or 9 seed in the NCAAT right now.
How about the fact that our leading scorer, Nia Moore, only played the first 5 minutes of the game and that's it. Not due to injury. Not due to foul trouble.
Per Warlick, "I didn't think she was giving us much so we went with someone else. Yeah, looking back maybe we should have played her more."
Let me get this straight. Your leading scorer doesn't "give you much" in the first 5 minutes of the game... and you sit her for the entire rest of the game??? MAYBE you should have played her more than 5 minutes? Really?
Warlick may possibly be a more inept head coach than Dooley was. And that's very hard to do. She needs to go back to the bench and let someone else lead. This team, as it stands now, will lose 10 games easily. They're looking at an 8 or 9 seed in the NCAAT right now.
Per Warlick, "I didn't think she was giving us much so we went with someone else. Yeah, looking back maybe we should have played her more."
If you look at Nia's stat line it is goose eggs all the way across. She had absolutely nothing to show for five minutes of play. I suspect if we went back and watched the film we would see her get pushed around or shy away from competing. Holly probably couldn't say what she was really thinking.
If you look at how productive the freshmen have been then Nared has probably been the least impressive, but she is getting the most minutes. She missed ALL of her shots and had maybe a couple of rebounds. At least once a smaller player just took the ball right out of her hands on a rebound. I had noticed in the all-star game that she is not physical at all and it shows at this level.
This is very much a finesse team without the fundamentals to play finesse basketball. Our ATO for the game was 3 to 12. No one had any idea what they were supposed to be doing for most of the game.
Another thing. Holly hired all these supposed world beater recruiters and they can only recruit one post in three years. Amazing. Oh, wait, two. Forgot about Moore but Holly is not going to play her.
Recruiting is not the problem. It's knowing how to use what you recruit. That's the problem.
Middleton should have played a lot more and Dunbar should have been given a shot to see if she was on. When Moore was in they were having her feed Bashara. That's backwards. Bashara should have been feeding Nia. Nia has proved she can score. Bashara hasn't. No inside/outside game. Looked just like last year. No drive and dish. I don't understand. It's just not that hard.Recruiting is not the only problem. We need to recruit posts too. But you're right. 3 assists for the entire team. That's a problem. You think maybe Middleton or Dunbar might have elevated that total? This team doesn't know how to pass the ball. Also, Moore plays 5 minutes and has a zero stat line. Burdick plays 29 minutes and has 6 rebounds and 4 turnovers. Why not give Moore a chance to become a little more acclimated to the tougher competition? Instead she yanks her and sits her on the bench. Makes sense to me.