cowboysooner
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We didn't lose due to officiating and I'm not alleging a bias in the officiating, just that it was easily the worst officiated game I've ever seen at any level. The officials should be ashamed.
Virtually every judgment call (charge/block) was plainly called wrong. They didn't allow any player, on either team, to own their space vertically.
There must have been a half a dozen times when someone would start a break away with a dribble and just get tackled by a defender, who would just jump in front of the dribbler and/or just grab them. We offended on a couple of these situations, but were mostly victimized by an unwillingness to call blatant violations.
Ok, that's my rant.
Now as to the game, we just got out toughed and didn't play very smart.
I didn't think we turned the ball over too many times like sone have said. I think we just missed a few too many free throws (so did ucla) and way too many crib shots and layups. And of course, they dominated us on the glass like we were grade school girls.
Normally, when an opponent puts a shot up, Sherri will have some of her girls get out and start going to the other end. This is ok if your interior girls are getting rebounds, but as billy tubbs remarked a couple of times, when you are being dominated on the glass, you really need to quit worrying about fast breaks and send all five girls to the glass.
From my perspective, we just didn't aggressively block out or block out at all, for that matter. They would put a shot up and we would turn and look up to watch to see what was going to happen, instead of putting their rear ends on people as they were letting the ball out of their hands on the first shot. All the way to the grade school level, basketball coaches will have their kids do a simple drill where the ball goes up on the rim and nobody is allowed to catch or even attempt to catch the ball, the person just blocks out and works on keeping the offensive player from having access to the ball.
If you are blocking out, you should be able to get the ball off the floor and not have to go "up".
On the bright side, I dont' think I have ever seen a team so obliterated on the glass lose by only 6 points. I still can't figure out how we stayed close, it is nothing short of amazing.
Also, rebounding is pure coaching. No talent required. Sherri will get the girls working on it and we can and I think we will improve.
Key play of the game, was the bone headed play by Jaz with 30 seconds. YOu just play good defense and absolutely can't foul there. The shot clock had 15 seconds on it and so if we stop them and get the rebound, with only being 2 down, we can win or tie with the last shot. By the way, Jaz wasn't the only one that was brain dead. AE was trying to foul the entire defensive possession and did commit at least 5 fouls that were not called. The entire defensive possession was like something out of the twilight zone.
Virtually every judgment call (charge/block) was plainly called wrong. They didn't allow any player, on either team, to own their space vertically.
There must have been a half a dozen times when someone would start a break away with a dribble and just get tackled by a defender, who would just jump in front of the dribbler and/or just grab them. We offended on a couple of these situations, but were mostly victimized by an unwillingness to call blatant violations.
Ok, that's my rant.
Now as to the game, we just got out toughed and didn't play very smart.
I didn't think we turned the ball over too many times like sone have said. I think we just missed a few too many free throws (so did ucla) and way too many crib shots and layups. And of course, they dominated us on the glass like we were grade school girls.
Normally, when an opponent puts a shot up, Sherri will have some of her girls get out and start going to the other end. This is ok if your interior girls are getting rebounds, but as billy tubbs remarked a couple of times, when you are being dominated on the glass, you really need to quit worrying about fast breaks and send all five girls to the glass.
From my perspective, we just didn't aggressively block out or block out at all, for that matter. They would put a shot up and we would turn and look up to watch to see what was going to happen, instead of putting their rear ends on people as they were letting the ball out of their hands on the first shot. All the way to the grade school level, basketball coaches will have their kids do a simple drill where the ball goes up on the rim and nobody is allowed to catch or even attempt to catch the ball, the person just blocks out and works on keeping the offensive player from having access to the ball.
If you are blocking out, you should be able to get the ball off the floor and not have to go "up".
On the bright side, I dont' think I have ever seen a team so obliterated on the glass lose by only 6 points. I still can't figure out how we stayed close, it is nothing short of amazing.
Also, rebounding is pure coaching. No talent required. Sherri will get the girls working on it and we can and I think we will improve.
Key play of the game, was the bone headed play by Jaz with 30 seconds. YOu just play good defense and absolutely can't foul there. The shot clock had 15 seconds on it and so if we stop them and get the rebound, with only being 2 down, we can win or tie with the last shot. By the way, Jaz wasn't the only one that was brain dead. AE was trying to foul the entire defensive possession and did commit at least 5 fouls that were not called. The entire defensive possession was like something out of the twilight zone.
