You mean the same coach that has been starting games with 1 of our 2 best players on the bench? Until someone can convince me that that is a sound strategy, and you can't, then I will see it as I see it. Sometimes a coach doesn't know what they don't know. They are human. They are not infallible and Pat would have been the first to tell you she wasn't.
I am a little suspect of her starters and who she plays. Not going to say that JP is the answer, but I don't see many players performing in games that would make me not want to give her more that a three minute tour of the floor. I think we can afford a ten minute stint in a game. She could either prove herself valuable or fall flat but without the chance who really knows. Sometimes practice doesn't answer that question.
The matchup zone which incorporates man to man situations as well is what we should've started with this year and been playing all year. You need to have speed to play a good man to man we have some players that can't do it. The matchup zones allows you to play man to man defense on the ball and still control an area in the zone. It was the main defense we ran when Pearl was here with the men's team. It can be very effective in helping any player that has man to man coverage deficiencies and it is much easier to help on the drives. Barnes team this year plays the man to man because they have the speed to do it. The Lady Vols do not have that speed in every player. The reason we played so well in the second quarter of the game vs UConn is because she went to the best speed we had in Jill, Jasmine, Rickea, Jordan Horston and Walker. That is your starting five and you just work players like Justine and others in a few minutes while always having at least three of them on the court. That is how we could play the man to man all the time and I agree to late to go to the zone this time of the season.
Because Tess and Sara are catch and shoot players. They also both just kind of hang around and wait for the ball to reverse their way instead of making their defender chase them all over the court. The other thing is that LLS can shoot on the move and can create her own shot if needed. Neither of the Tennessee sharpshooters can do that.
Depends on if there are players on the team who are chasing a NC (like Rickea did this year).
That's a good argument and a difficult one to counter. Though the total number of minutes played for each would probably be the same if they both started or not.
