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[MsProudSooner]

All's well that ends well. When Whitney got hurt, I thought this team would be lucky to win 17 games for the whole season. They're already 17-5. :clap

Very true. Also, KSU took Kansas to 2 overtimes before losing at home. They may not have a great win/loss record, but they are very tough at home.

 

[OKUman]

It is amazing to me the way this staff has her 6'6" post player playing defense. She continually follows post players out to the three point line and that leaves the lane completely open. Put her in the lane and tell her to never leave it until they adopt the NBA 3 second rule for defense. She could be stopping those drives and blocking shots in the lane.

 

[MsProudSooner]

It is amazing to me the way this staff has her 6'6" post player playing defense. She continually follows post players out to the three point line and that leaves the lane completely open. Put her in the lane and tell her to never leave it until they adopt the NBA 3 second rule for defense. She could be stopping those drives and blocking shots in the lane.

You would do this if you knew that the player she is guarding is a good 3 point shooter? If I remember correctly, all of KSU's post players have been injured and they are basically playing 4 guards and a forward who can shoot 3's.

 

[35TangoTango]

In the post game interview. Sherri talked about the problems that arose from guarding what was essentially a 5 guard offense. We also got into some mismatches switching on some of their 5 million screens. She also talked about our failure to help from the weak side. A lot of questions can be answered by listening to (or reading) the post game interviews. Coach is pretty open.

 

[SoonerNorm]

You would do this if you knew that the player she is guarding is a good 3 point shooter? If I remember correctly, all of KSU's post players have been injured and they are basically playing 4 guards and a forward who can shoot 3's.

Allowing a player to shoot threes is better than allowing them to blow by you and shoot layups. I agree with OKUman, I would never allow Griffin to leave the paint.

 

[MsProudSooner]

Allowing a player to shoot threes is better than allowing them to blow by you and shoot layups. I agree with OKUman, I would never allow Griffin to leave the paint.

One thing I always remembered from my high school English class was to stay away from words like never and always.

 

[KCRuf/Nek]

In the post game interview. Sherri talked about the problems that arose from guarding what was essentially a 5 guard offense. We also got into some mismatches switching on some of their 5 million screens. She also talked about our failure to help from the weak side. A lot of questions can be answered by listening to (or reading) the post game interviews. Coach is pretty open.

Well I don't know about the X's n O's of it but I was behind our bench and had a view straight down the left of the lane. You could have driven a truck trough there. Moses had a narrower path going through the Red Sea. When it gets like that I'm yelling if they can't stay in front of them then knock them down. How about calling a T/O after the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ......10th time it happens instead of throwing up your hands and drinking some water?

Allowing a player to shoot threes is better than allowing them to blow by you and shoot layups. I agree with OKUman, I would never allow Griffin to leave the paint.

Yep. They hit some threes but many of them were deep and what I call close your eyes and chuck it. I'll let them shoot from several feet behind the arc all day as opposed to letting them drive like that.

 

[gosooner2]

Our defense lately has been shall we say somewhat deficient. There are probably a lot of reasons for that.
Fatigue - playing in your face defense takes a lot of energy.
Fouls-- If we ever get two starters in foul trouble and are not playing TCU, Txas, Or KSU we are in deep do-do.
What I have seen lately is not what I am used to seeing from OU on defense.
Sherri said it on the post game, the question is if she saw it why didn't she change it?

OU is 7-3 with 5 wins against 3 teams who are 5-25 in league play! Long way to go! I believe the players have played really hard and if they are hitting from 3 point range are a tough out. But we need to play either man to man or a zone, not half the team playing one and half the other.

 

[35TangoTango]

Sherri said it on the post game, the question is if she saw it why didn't she change it?

You know these interviews are on the same internet as this forum. If you'd read them, your question would have been answered.

Sherri said maybe she'd made a coaching mistake in changing defenses too often - switch, don't switch, show, fire, etc. At the end the players seemed to have trouble remembering which defense they were in. Much more eloquent the way she put it.

 

[gosooner2]

I guess I agree with her eloquence, sounds like something Mike Stoops might say after his 2-9 scheme against WVU. Although now that I think about it MS is anything but eloquent.

 

[SoonerinNC]

We really have an up and down team.

We are dominant for awhile then we start forcing bad passes and taking bad shots out of rythm. We usually get back in the groove but never did against West Virginia.

I agree that Sherri has a short leash on Portia and Kornet also. She always has trusted her older players and has been reluctant to play most of the younger ones much and usually pulls them at the first mishap.

She doesn't seem to mind playing her starters 35-40 minutes. Could be the reason we end up with 8 healthy scholarship players when injuries hit. We seem to get a fair number of defections looking for more playing time.

 

[SoonerNorm]

We really have an up and down team.

We are dominant for awhile then we start forcing bad passes and taking bad shots out of rythm. We usually get back in the groove but never did against West Virginia.

I agree that Sherri has a short leash on Portia and Kornet also. She always has trusted her older players and has been reluctant to play most of the younger ones much and usually pulls them at the first mishap.

She doesn't seem to mind playing her starters 35-40 minutes. Could be the reason we end up with 8 healthy scholarship players when injuries hit. We seem to get a fair number of defections looking for more playing time.

Very good post!

 

[35TangoTango]

She doesn't seem to mind playing her starters 35-40 minutes. Could be the reason we end up with 8 healthy scholarship players when injuries hit.

This seems ill-informed. I don't think we have a history of playing our starters any more than most other top 25 teams. Some research will bear that out.

We seem to get a fair number of defections looking for more playing time.

The players that leave us for more playing time step down to a much lower level of competition to get it. It's always a choice. Some would rather be a bigger fish in a smaller pond.

I've watched this team since 2000 and I've never seen anything to indicate that assignment of playing time once we get to conference play was in any way based on any criteria other than who could best help (or least hurt) the team at that moment.

 

[SoonerNorm]

This seems ill-informed. I don't think we have a history of playing our starters any more than most other top 25 teams. Some research will bear that out.

The players that leave us for more playing time step down to a much lower level of competition to get it. It's always a choice. Some would rather be a bigger fish in a smaller pond.

I've watched this team since 2000 and I've never seen anything to indicate that assignment of playing time once we get to conference play was in any way based on any criteria other than who could best help (or least hurt) the team at that moment.

I wouldn't say Courtney Walker left for a smaller pond.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I wouldn't say Courtney Walker left for a smaller pond.

She never signed a LOI, much less enrolled at OU or played here.

 

[BanjoCharley]

...though her playing time here was pretty much 0.

 

[35TangoTango]

I wouldn't say Courtney Walker left for a smaller pond.

Please read before writing. The discussion was about players leaving for more playing time.

 

[BanjoCharley]

I wouldn't say Courtney Walker left for a smaller pond.

Four words too many.

 

[SoonerNorm]

She might not have enrolled at OU but I think everyone was counting her a Sooner.

 

[35TangoTango]

She might not have enrolled at OU but I think everyone was counting her a Sooner.

(Once again) the thread was talking about the number of players that left OU to get more playing time. There are at least two reasons that Courtney Walker doesn't fit that category. (1) She didn't leave because she was never here, and (2) she therefore can't have been unhappy about her amount of playing time.