Payton can do so much more then catch and shot... The fact that she was one of our top scores, yet didn't have a lot of 3 would show she's more the. A catch and shot player... I can remember her taking players of the dribble, just not as strong as Carter. Manning could be a really good 6th man for OU she could come in and play the 1-4.
Who will start
Gabi
Peyton
Gioya
Maddie
Kaylon
for OU to reach their maximum ceiling
this lineup should be ready to start
Gabi
Gioya
Peyton
Kaylon
Vivi
Maddie super sub off the bench at really any 4 spots.
The point was--and is---do you want the ball in Peyton's hands when the defense is pressing? At the end of the year, that job belonged primarily to Maddie with some to Gabbi. They were the ones that had the ball in their hands the most, that were trying to find someone open to score. There were games when Maddie scored six to ten points from the free throw line as they kept fouling her to try to get the ball. She could control the ball, and she usually hit her free throws. Peyton was not that type of ball-handler, and the offense did not run through Peyton. It ran through Gabbi or Maddie.
Could have stopped right there. The point was made.I concur that Maddie became more of a figure in the offense and ball control the last ten games and she did hit 80% of her free throws over those last ten.
Show me the data that I presented regarding fouling Maddie. I made a comment, but I presented no such data. Want to go back and watch the last three minutes of the games that we won?Probably would never have responded had you not erroneously used data to substantiate your point when in fact opponents were not fouling Maddie to get the ball after she became a key cog in the offense but fouling her less instead.
No question in my mind Maddie is one of the keys to having the season many here hope. However the question still remains whether she can gain the necessary control of her skill set to meet potential many see. I am hopeful but somewhat doubtful she can get all the way there. She appears to me to play too much with her mind and not enough with her instincts and thusly limits herself. Only court time will resolve that concern.
Show me the data that I presented regarding fouling Maddie. I made a comment, but I presented no such data. Want to go back and watch the last three minutes of the games that we won?
You are right yours was only a comment and she did have one game all season with 6 or more FT's made. She also had 14 of her last 22 games were she shot 3 of less FT's. Your implication by referencing Maddie's FT's made and fouls against her was an extremely misleading attempt to verify you original point that Gabbi and Maddie were controling the ball. Especially when you used the last 10 games as the illustration of when the transition was made to using Maddie to assist Gabbi in controlliing the ball.
Your point is valid. Your comments supporting your point is false. Just speak the truth and there is no problem and readers are not mislead. I'm out.
The point is valid. But the comments supporting my point are not valid? This refers to a comment made about Maddie and free throws supporting her use late in the season? If you notice, I made no reference of when any free throws were made, just that she was fouled trying to get the ball from her. Incidentally, she was 6 of 8 in one game, 12 of 14 in another. That's a lot of free throws shot as a result of bringing the ball up.
If memory serves, it was that game in which Maddie was 12-14 from the line that she was, more-or-less, given the reins by Sherri. Until that time, she had been a moderately-used reserve. In that game, we trailed Texas 14-15 in Norman with about eight minutes left in the first half. Gioya, Sharane, Kay Kay, and Nicole all had two fouls and were on the bench. As I understand, Sherri put Maddie in and told her to take over. The result was that Maddie was the leading scorer with fourteen, twelve of which came from the line. Although she told Maddie to take over, which she did in the TCU game that followed, the use of Maddie as the key floor leader was mixed until later when it was primarily a Maddie/Gabbi show.
da** I will be glad when the back and forth is on the court
It's been going on for ten years under different usernames. Don't let it bother you.