Thursday, November 02, 2006

Exhibition Game: LTL All-Stars

Tonight we get our first look at our team. It's basically the same as last year minus Charmaine and Angel plus Marrone, but Emery is out until her knee heals and I have no idea if Sa'de can play.

We play the LTL All-Stars which is made up of former players including Brittany Jackson (Tennessee), Ke-Ke Tardy (LSU), Brandy Teamer (Virginia) and Nikki Blue (UCLA). They have beaten Houston and Duquesne, but were crushed by Oklahoma last night. Here are there box scores thus far: Houston | Duquesne | Oklahoma

Here's what I want to see tonight:

  • Our improved defense. The players say they have been working on it all offseason and let's see if it shows.
  • Putting teams away. Again, the players talk about having a swagger and not letting teams hang around.
  • More consistent outside shooting from the post players. We need Lang and Harper to be more comfortable outside to draw defenses away so that they can drive on them later in the game.
  • Better decision making. We struggled at times last year distributing the ball and forcing shots. I would like to see us not rush shots and take care of the ball.

    Feel free to add your comments in the section below.

  • 1 comments:

    BasketCases said...

    Joey,

    Thanks for the great blog. Sa'de can't play until December, after this semester ends....

    BasketCase Judith