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Something like that is always healthy, if NCAA allows. But stay away from the black diamonds and the thin ice.

Anybody know if Klarke is injured? Don’t see any other reason why she hasn’t played lately. She has a good solid jump shot out to 15 feet. Unless she is perceived as being on the slippery slope toward bad body language.

> In the Indiana post-game interview, Whalen was non-committal regarding her starting lineup for Nebraska. I’ll volunteer to be assistant coach for a day, and submit my own proposed starting lineup for consideration by Whalen: Jasmine Brunson (PG = 1) Jasmine Powell (PG = 1) Sara Scalia (SG =...

Yeah, you’re probably right. In any event, she is probably not molded after Whalen’s identity, and there’s no reason to want her to be.

> Lindsay/any successful college coach needs to recruit to their identity and system. What is Whalen’s identity? What is Whalen’s system? Well, we kinda know Whalen’s identity is - she’s a local basketball player who did good at all levels. But why the heck would we need a team consisting of...

So, after about the first 9 of those points, don’t you just automatically switch to a “box and Berger” defense, or “triangle and two Bergers” defense, or some other Berger-focused defense?

Teri Moren’s well trained defense wasn’t giving us any shots, and the ones we got were rarely going in. Meanwhile, at the other end we got Bergered. Especially second quarter. The very simplest of screens by her teammates gave her a wide-open look on a mid-range or elbow jumper, and I think...

Agreed. +/- is near useless. If you’re so short-handed that you play the 5 starters for 40 min each, then all five look equally incompetent if they lose, or equally brilliant if they win. Now extrapolate that to a 5.5 player rotation, which is pretty much what the used, what with Brunson out...

So, regarding that “exceptional patience birdie” ... Apparently Whalen lost that “exceptional patience” when she yelled and screamed at Pitts for several minutes straight on-camera in front of national TV coverage of the Northwestern game, after she benched Pitts for what was arguably a silly...

You may have heard by now that the world has lost the quintessential basketball star Kobe Bryant (and his daughter) to a helicopter crash. Let’s keep in our hearts and prayers the Bryant family, and also our dear friend Rachel Banham, who must be hurting right now. Kobe was Rachel’s basketball...

Not sure why, but apparently this is also a big story in Tucson. This article is no more than the brief AP newswire feed. However, I gotta give them props for picking out a great picture of Whalen and Pitts back in better days, in our game against Ohio State on New Years Eve. The caption says...

Here’s a nice article from the Michigan press. Again, it contains no more information than we already knew (it references the STrib, natch). But it does contain a nice comment from her high school coach, along with a nice picture of her suited up for her high school team that won the Michigan...

Here’s another rather “quaint” angle on the Pitts v Whalen affair by John Shipley of the Pioneer Press. Although the angle is different, John clearly knows even less than most of us (which isn’t much) about the facts of the matter. Nevertheless, an interesting read. For the non-paywalled version...

As far as long term solution goes, you’re quite correct. We need to get bigger and more skilled down low. That’s a recruiting issue and a training issue. But for right now, we have to make the best out of our current resources, including post resources. Posts can be trained to shoot from deep...

> When they go 2 posts the offense is just clogged up and no one can score. The offense need not be clogged up with 2 posts. Need to (not all the time but some good percent of the time) play 2 posts on the left/right short corner three-point lines. Leaves the entire interior of the three-point...

Well I dunno, maybe they messed that info up in transition to the new system. All I know is that I was a GopherHole reader-only for several years before I decided I might have something to say and decided to create an account - and during that time I recall seeing posts by @baller4life on the...

OK, nice attempt at a joke @whalenfan. And presumably, @WHB Brewer laughed at it. I hate to spoil the joke, but @baller4life was on this board before I joined and before Destiny Pitts came on board as a Freshman as well. @baller4life makes points legitimately worth discussing, although to the...

By the way, all, @Shades is a regular contributor, not a troll. He regularly covers bracketology at about this time every week. A while ago we jointly covered Carlie Wagner playing in Spain. And as noted, lots of people’s frequency of posting goes up and down with losing vs winning, or the...

One wonders whether Charlie’s analysis extends so deep that he checks which teams’ leading scorers just departed the team last week, and if so, whether it was amicable. Certainly not worth checking in most weeks.