I'm so tired of coming here to find a discussion about the game and only finding gripes about turnovers. Yes, there's a lot of them. Yes, too many are unforced. But we just soundly beat a very good Vanderbilt team -- a team who is in the top 15 nationally in steals per game and turnover margin. It is their specialty to be pests and jump into passing lanes and pressure ball handlers and force turnovers. If you watched the game last night, you'd have noticed that our post entry passes were drastically improved from even a week ago. Yes, there were still some bad decisions there, but our improved accuracy resulted in actually getting Beers an adequate amount of touches and having a career night in points. Yes, Zya had 5 turnovers and we can all agree that is too many for a PG, but holy smokes she is really figuring it out! She is such a vital spark plug to this team and her (along with Lexy) finally shut down Blakes when they got into the game together in the 3rd quarter. Zya did more than enough positive things within the system for Jennie to forgive the turnovers and keep her on the floor. Meanwhile, Jennie immediately sent Tot to the bench after a stupid turnover not once but twice. Jennie has shown, time and time again, that she will forgive turnovers within the system (i.e. smart reads to players who are moving without the ball) when the offense is flowing... and it was. We scored over 100 points against an NCAA tournament team.
That third quarter, especially, gave me a great amount of hope for this team, but if you only want to look at turnovers and assume Jennie is doing nothing to try to win, then idk what to tell you.
