Madi Williams was an All-Conference quality player last year. But, she was kind of alone in her role with little help. She was our leading rebounder by a decent margin and was always among the leaders in the Big Twelve. She scored over 11 points. Usually, a freshman who is 11 and 8 will receive some attention. But, we really weren't in a position to showcase her.
Ana could operate outside and create her own opportunities. Taylor could shoot from outside, and we make quite a case about her not being open. The fact is that Madi was almost never open. She drew a lot of attention inside.
When you start as many freshmen and sophomores as we did last year, not everyone knows what to do on offense or defense. We let people loose for layups easily at times because we broke down at the perimeter. This guard is loose, which leads to someone else having to get out of position which leads to a wide open layup. I will be just as interested in seeing how we have learned the defense this Fall as the offense. Hopefully, last year's freshmen learned what not to do. Now, maybe they can learn what to do on defense, maybe even help this year's newcomers adapt to this thing that HS players are rarely taught.
I want to see how the perimeter shapes up. We don't really have a settled position. I think we have only two settled players at this point, Madi and Ana. A lot of people need to show us what they learned last year.
