Any Idea Why?

[Sweetest OU Girl]

We are all aware that we tend to foul a lot more than we wish we did.

Does anyone have an idea as to why that is?

Is it due to our style of play?

Are our girls rough and too aggressive?

Are we not quite athletic enough to play at the pace we are using?

Do we defend too hard?

Something else?

I noticed that Iowa State does not foul very much. Is that good or bad for us and our style against them?

 

[Mark]

I'm going try to answer this. I believe our players have bad habits on defense everybody Tent to reach a lot most of kk fouls are unnecessary she has to realize she's to important to our team to be in foul trouble every game. I'm not just picking on KK all of our players get reaching happy i'm just using her as an example. If we can stop The unnecessary reaching on defense our team fouls will Drop dramatically.

 

[sybarite]

Discipline. Pure and simple. It is discipline.

Sherri has said it. She has taught it. She instructs it in videos that we have seen. Use your feet and not your hands.

Kay Kay thinks she is at the kitchen table reaching for food or something. Her fouls are nearly all reaching in with her hands. She is out of position. A great number of her fouls are frustration. She will blow a layup or not get a rebound, and she will reach in to try to get it back. Her hands get her fouls, over eighty percent of them. If she would simply quit using her hands to try to overcome her mistakes, she would not foul out.

Several of our players have that problem---frustration fouls. We also have a tendency to try to drive through lanes that aren't there rather than to pull up. The frustrating thing about this is that we are good at hitting pull up jumpers, but we get layups blocked a lot. We try to go through the post rather than around them, lazy.

 

[rocjunkie]

Discipline. Pure and simple. It is discipline.

Sherri has said it. She has taught it. She instructs it in videos that we have seen. Use your feet and not your hands.

Kay Kay thinks she is at the kitchen table reaching for food or something. Her fouls are nearly all reaching in with her hands. She is out of position. A great number of her fouls are frustration. She will blow a layup or not get a rebound, and she will reach in to try to get it back. Her hands get her fouls, over eighty percent of them. If she would simply quit using her hands to try to overcome her mistakes, she would not foul out.

Several of our players have that problem---frustration fouls. We also have a tendency to try to drive through lanes that aren't there rather than to pull up. The frustrating thing about this is that we are good at hitting pull up jumpers, but we get layups blocked a lot. We try to go through the post rather than around them, lazy.

Pretty much nailed it. Discipline and fundamentals.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Yes, it is fundamentals! We recently talked about playing defense with your palms up vs palms down. Our girls always play palms down and when they slap at the ball, it will often draw a whistle. Contrast that with palms up which seldom draws a foul. We can't seem to keep from charging either when going to the rim. The smart play would be to shoot a short jump shot or pass to an open shooter but for someone unknown reason, we think we have to make a layup regardless of who is in the way.

 

[rocjunkie]

Yes, it is fundamentals! We recently talked about playing defense with your palms up vs palms down. Our girls always play palms down and when they slap at the ball, it will often draw a whistle. Contrast that with palms up which seldom draws a foul. We can't seem to keep from charging either when going to the rim. The smart play would be to shoot a short jump shot or pass to an open shooter but for someone unknown reason, we think we have to make a layup regardless of who is in the way.

And I get tired of counting how many relatively easy lay ups we blow in most games, and game after game get called for offensive fouls. It's simple, pull up and shoot the ball, better still come at an angle and shoot off the glass. Not many perform that simple fundamental any more.

 

[j2d2]

Discipline is the most important requirement. I wish Sherri started every practice with a defensive drill on one or two defensive skills and emphasized defense continually. After a while the team would get the point.

 

[badger]

Dare I suggest they're calling the college game (men and women) differently than they did a decade ago that lends to more whistles than ever?

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Pull up and shoot. Especially Maddie (who gets some slack cut her way), Sharane and Goiya. Kornet is bad too, but she isn't playing much, so it doesn't matter.