Maybe Micheaux has been cleared to play? With LBK and Sissoko playing better and would throw in Bailey and Mershon too, perhaps she didn’t see a way to get on the court? It would be hard to disrupt the rotation that has improved at the end of the conference season. Wish her the best tho, I always thought she had a nice jump shot, we just don’t go inside for our offense very much.
A reasonable question on its face, and perhaps the '22 class will disappoint, but the question suffers from relying on the outlier ESPN ranking of the 2020 class, which was based on an outlier ranking of Alexia Smith. ESPN had Smith at # 46, before dropping her to #68 in their final rankings. The apparent lack of an OSU offer for the hometown Smith should have been a tell for ESPN. In contrast, Blue Star (BS) had Smith at #152, ASGR had her at # 126, and Prospects Nation (PN) had her at # 121. When gophersports.com introduced Smith on October 1 by saying "She is the first five-star recruit for either the men's or women's programs at Minnesota since at least the 2011 class," it was not true. All it did was create false and unreasonable expectations. By the time she set foot on campus, no one thought Smith was a 5-star recruit, and most thought she was not a top 100 recruit.
good info, thanks
Hedman should of went to Green Bay or SDSU, they develop those kind of players.
All of these 2020 are good players and can play at this level with good coaching. Let's be honest, this team is essentially a mid major with the Whalen coaching staff. Drake beat us handily for two years and was 6th in the Missouri Valley Conference this year. We beat Ohio by only 6 this year and they finished 8th in the Mid American. We lost to Jacksonville and they finished 8-8 in the ASUN. The BIG10 games where they were close had teams with injuries or transfers (Mich State, Indiana). This team has talent, but the coaching is clearly the issue. Records don't lie. Nothing but down since Stollings last year. 24-9 and 2nd round of NCAA (2017-18).
I don't think I called anyone selfish, sorry if I did somewhere. If it is most important for a person to get more playing time and not being with their current teammates and improving on the practice court with the hope of gaining more time, then they should transfer. As long as someone is on a team they should be fully engaged and support their teammates though, otherwise they are hurting their team. That is my only expectation. If any teammate doesn't do that they need to leave, that is why it is probably good that Powell and Sconiers are leaving and this is where I think Strande and Scalia (in particular) should improve on next year if they are going to stick around.
I thought it was a good game, although disappointing. Still too many turnovers and two of the biggest culprits were Scalia and Smith, which is a really bad omen since they are the point guards. https://gophersports.com/sports/womens-basketball/stats/2021-22/northwestern/boxscore/19235
Wow!
Bravo!
Nice Breakdown! the only piece I knew before this was their constant ridiculous reference to smith being a 5 Star.First, I'm sorry if I didn't explain myself well bec. I wasn't referring to you specifically. I meant myself, that is, if my attitude sounds selfish, I apologize, but it's how I see things. Second, what I mean by "things" is not a player's attitude toward teammates, but the relationship between a player and the coach. If a player works really hand and the coach doesn't play her/him in games, why stick around with that coach? That coach isn't doing you any favors. Go some place where there's a coach who will play you. College is only 4 years (or used to be), so why waste those short years sitting on the bench for a coach who favors some other player(s) instead? MO.
we only had 14 TO as a team
The men's team was expected to be bad this year due to the hiring of a first year head coach amidst an unprecedented expansion of the transfer portal. They've far exceeded expectations and have established an identity that should lead to success in coming years.
Fair analysis, but dont forget your teammate needs to make the shot to get an assistWell, good question, I am looking for a better assist to turnover ratio. One could say there are two seasons for Scalia on the year, With Jasmine Powell (WJP) & After Jasmine Powell (AJP). On the year WJP + AJP Scalia has 53 assists to 64 turnovers which with a 0.828 Ast/TO ratio. AJP, Scalia has 31 Assists to 36 turnovers which is 0.861 Ast/TO ratio. That would make her WJP season 22 assists to 28 turnovers or 0.76 Ast/TO ratio. She seems to have potentially improved on the season from WJP to AJP. I haven't done the stats on it but I doubt it is statistically significant given the small sample size.
Scalia really needs to have an ast/TO ratio over 1 for me to come close to quit pulling my hair out. A ratio of 2 would put her in the top 50 in women's college BB. A ratio of 1.12 would rank her at 250th in the country***. She is clearly our best scorer but she should be handling the ball less not more based on this ratio. I am no BB coach so I don't know all the potential ins and outs, they clearly want to get her the ball frequently to score and they may just think the best way to do that is for her to be the point guard so she has more opportunities. I would have liked to see someone else be the point guard. My wife suggested Hubbard and I initially brushed it off but I don't see her turn it over very much so I looked her ratio up and it is 67/29 and then looked up Smith's and it is 52/39, so they are both over 1. I know i'm just some schumck who plays and watches a lot of basketball but has never been coached in it. My analysis is clearly self taught and by observation, so take it for what it is worth.
*** I didn't see any players from Minnesota anywhere (Hubbard, Powell) in the list so there may be a minimum total number of assists + TOs to make the list. That would mean the minimum is more than 117 (Scalia) & 167 (Powell). BUT! I did find someone listed with as little as 122 in 2 pages of looking.
Without an inside presence it is hard to get assists on this team. You cant run pick n roll with Helgren for an asisst, Rose was more of a dribble 3 or 4 times for a basket, which is not an assist. How many times did you see Kadi catch and shoot for an assist, nearly 0, she had to dribble or ball fake a couple times. My point is until we get an inside presence expect assists for any PG on this team to be erratic.This is a good post, I'll add that when teams zoned us the offense looked good, the ball moved and we racked up assists. Its when teams played man against us we would struggle, Diva and Deja are solid players but they werent really threats to put the ball on the floor. Add that to not having a post presence and you get a offense that is really limited in what they can do. We definitely need to upgrade in the post but next years guards can all handle the ball and are more versatile which should allow us to run more things.Fair analysis, but dont forget your teammate needs to make the shot to get an assist
The other thing to remember we were 5-5 in the BIG down the stretch with Scalia at the point, her job wasnt to do the highlight drive Powell did, her job was to cause the defense all kinds of worry because of how they had to play her on high ball screen picks and to make the right read if double teamed. From that standpoint she did her job and she became a weapon offensively. She only averaged 2.3 TO per game/40 min, that might of been the best in the BIG and that is after getting blitzed on every ball screen.
Bottom line we need to upgrade talent in the post, we were no threat. Diva was a shell of her former self, struggled to get shots. Deja had her moments but also was inconsistent for long stretches of games, you didnt know she was playing.
Part of it is recruiting, part getting better talent, part developing talent and part of it is coaching.
Thats my 2 cents.
I like and agree with most of what you are saying and your last sentences I think is a great summary, maybe the only point we disagree on is what Scalia's assist to turnover ratio should be OR maybe how many turnovers she has that are bad turnovers. I will just leave it at that.Fair analysis, but dont forget your teammate needs to make the shot to get an assist
The other thing to remember we were 5-5 in the BIG down the stretch with Scalia at the point, her job wasnt to do the highlight drive Powell did, her job was to cause the defense all kinds of worry because of how they had to play her on high ball screen picks and to make the right read if double teamed. From that standpoint she did her job and she became a weapon offensively. She only averaged 2.3 TO per game/40 min, that might of been the best in the BIG and that is after getting blitzed on every ball screen.
Bottom line we need to upgrade talent in the post, we were no threat. Diva was a shell of her former self, struggled to get shots. Deja had her moments but also was inconsistent for long stretches of games, you didnt know she was playing.
Part of it is recruiting, part getting better talent, part developing talent and part of it is coaching.
Thats my 2 cents.
I hate to say it, but .. I told you so.
No, I don't think you hate to say so.
I hate to say it, but .. I told you so... again.
D. Oberg had no comment............................
Based on their listed roster for 2022-23, she should get a shot at more playing time. There’s only a couple other F/Cs on the roster.