Over the past six games, I have noticed some thing very interesting developing with our youngsters on the court. Several of us have posted about it over the time I have been on this board. It's all about want to! Our Sooners are starting to understand that when you want to play defense, when you want to do the dirty work and rebound, when you want to make that extra pass or screen, good things will happen. It almost becomes infectious. Peyton, not one the biggest kids on the court, finds herself in position by wanting to, gets rebounds in the land of giants. The team is playing solid defense and communicating with each other. Their free throw shooting is better every game in this span, probably from wanting to stay late and work on their shots. It is truly amazing to me how each game one of the players light bulbs lights up in their heads and they see the court more clearly. We have seen it with Kaylon, Gioya, Maddie, McKenna, ViVi, LaNesia, etc... They just keep getting better as they play together.
I Posted on another thread about Sherri's post game comments, She said we may not have two or three kids that will give you 18 points a night, but we have 8 or 9 that can give you 10 or 12. Two things about this team really excite me. First they are all about team. Second we now have 9 kids, that when the game is on the line, not a one of those 9 not want the ball, they all do during crunch time. They are not afraid to fail. We saw that last night when Texas took an 8 point lead, and we buckled down and went on a 14-2 run and never looked back. Will we have some failure later on this season, probably will, but I don't think it will because of the lack of effort, or because they don't want to. I think its pretty neat that we have won all four of our conference games by double digits. I'm just waiting for the dam to break and all the kids put in their best effort together on a consistent basis. It could be real soon.
I Posted on another thread about Sherri's post game comments, She said we may not have two or three kids that will give you 18 points a night, but we have 8 or 9 that can give you 10 or 12. Two things about this team really excite me. First they are all about team. Second we now have 9 kids, that when the game is on the line, not a one of those 9 not want the ball, they all do during crunch time. They are not afraid to fail. We saw that last night when Texas took an 8 point lead, and we buckled down and went on a 14-2 run and never looked back. Will we have some failure later on this season, probably will, but I don't think it will because of the lack of effort, or because they don't want to. I think its pretty neat that we have won all four of our conference games by double digits. I'm just waiting for the dam to break and all the kids put in their best effort together on a consistent basis. It could be real soon.
