Last Ten

[sybarite]

I've made two posts about the last ten games, trying to relate them to something. In one case, it was who had played the most minutes (depth?). In the next, it was to correlate Kay Kay's fouls and minutes, which was spun into a performance in those games. I saw no direct link.

Let's look at Maddie's time and performance in the last ten.

Time/Point/Rebounds/Assists/Blocks/Steals
9/0/2/0/0/0 Stanford LOSS
20/15/5/3/0/0 Quinnipiac
21/2/5/2/0/0 Texas LOSS
30/11/6/1/1/1 West Virginia
21/4/0/0/0/1 Oklahoma State
19/3/2/2/2/0 Kansas LOSS
11/4/3/0/0/0 Baylor
1/0/0/0/0/0 Kansas State
23/10/5/1/1/0 Iowa State LOSS
21/5/4/3/1/2 TCU

Maddie was injured early in the K State game, held out as a precaution. Didn't play a lot in the Baylor game that followed.

I'm not really seeing a correlation between Maddie's numbers and a W-L record either. She played 82 minutes in the four losses. She played 123 minutes in the six wins, but one was a one-minute game. If we exclude that game, she was about 20.5 minutes in losses and 24.4 minutes in wins. She averaged 3.75 in losses, and 7.8 in wins.

 

[sybarite]

Let's look at Gioya's shooting percentage.

FG/FGA--3PT/3PTA
8/18------2/8 Stanford LOSS
2/7-------0/2 Quinnipiac
3/9-------3/5 Texas LOSS
1/5-------0/2 West Virginia
5/14------1/3 Oklahoma State
0/6-------0/3 Kansas LOSS
3/8-------0/3 Baylor
3/7-------0/1 Kansas State
2/6-------1/1 Iowa State LOSS
3/7-------1/2 TCU

OK. So, Gioya was 13 of 39 in losses (33%). She was 6 of 17 from three in losses (35%). In wins, Gioya was 17 of 48 (35%). She was two of thirteen from three (15%). About the only thing that you can say is that Gioya didn't shoot all that well in the last ten games, win or lose. She was 30 of 87 (34%) from the field, and 8 of 30 from three (26.7%).

 

[sybarite]

Let's look at Peyton's shooting percentage:

1/8----1/4 Stanford LOSS
2/9----1/6 Quinnipiac
5/15---1/10 Texas LOSS
4/11---3/4 West Virginia
6/13---2/6 Oklahoma State
2/11---0/4 Kansas LOSS
4/14---3/5 Baylor
9/13---8/10 Kansas State
8/17---4/10 Iowa State LOSS
8/15---5/9 TCU


This may be the strongest correlation of success that I've seen. Look at Peyton's last three games (Stanford, Quinnipiac, Texas). She was only 8 of 32 from the field and 3 of 20 from three point range in those three games, two of which we lost. Peyton may be the one person that we need.

She was 16 of 51 in losses (31%), and 33 of 75 (44%) in wins. She was 6 of 28 from three in losses (21%), and 22 of 40 (55%) in wins. It looks like we need to get Peyton more open shots when we are losing.

 

[sybarite]

Turnovers:
13 Stanford
13 Quinnipiac
18 Texas
9 West Virginia
12 Oklahoma State
13 Kansas
9 Baylor
16 Kansas State
12 Iowa State
19 TCU

The TCU game was pretty ragged. TCU had 28 turnovers. Texas had 22. Kansas State equaled us at 16. We were pretty solid late in the year on turnovers. In both of the regular season games against West Virginia, we had 21 turnovers, but only 9 in the Big Twelve tournament at a time when they had just become a turnover-producing machine.

I think the key was that late in the year, our ball-handling was done by Gabbi, Maddie and T'Ona, with some by Peyton. They can handle the ball. Early in the year, Gabbi struggled on traps, which she learned not to do. Teams tried to pressure Gabbi and Maddie, but it isn't easy to steal the ball from them.