The 2006 Terps made their debut last night in front of a disappointing crowd and defeated Lake Truck 80-64. The game wasn't as close as the score indicates as the Terps led by 31 with 8:30 to go and went into cruise control mode. It was kind of a boring game as the only new player we got to see was Marrone and I was impressed with the way she played. Perry replaced Toliver in the starting line up, but I ahve no idea why.
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Positives
We came out strong and put them away early. I blinked and it was 17-4. That's what I was looking for.
Marrone. I wasn't sure what to expect from her, but she ran the point effectively and hit some nice outside jumpers.
The defense looked better than last year as we were more active on screens and got in front of their shooters. Still have some work to do, but you can tell we worked on our D.
It was just fun to see the team out there again and realize the firepower we have. Coleman had an off shooting night, but Shay was scoring. Lang had 8 and 8 in 19 minutes and Harper was again consistent.
Negatives
The crowd. less than 1,000 for the debut of the 2006 NC? ridiculous. Maybe the marketing department should work harder to get fans to a women's game then running constant commercials for a men's program that typically sells out.
Introductions/Announcer. Hopefully everything will be fine tuned by Nov 12, but the CD skipping BS is high school level crap and who announced the game - Mickey Mouse? I could barely hear the guy even with the music off and his voice was so high-pitched.
Quick shooting. We tended to go back to our old style of throwing it around the perimeter and then firing up a shot. While we have great shooters, I would like to see Lang, Harper and Perry get more touches in the paint.
Free Throwing Shooting. Not very good tonight as everyone was missing. It's ok now, but in bigger games that could be the difference in winning and losing. (Ask Thornburn from Utah and Waner from Duke about it)
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