Old Man Mike
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Good game. We, especially Muffet and Jewel, were just better.
Our weak area was somewhat hidden but still subtly there --- it's still the three bigs. Montana began the game with several successful post-ups with poor initial defensive battling and anticipation by our bigs, followed by lax back-up "help" when the Montana girl made her turn move. Had Montana continued to do this instead of their inexplicably crazy extra-long-range bombing attempts, they'd have played a much better game --- still lost, but would have better shown their talent which was pretty good. That Montana coach is allegedly a good one, but I didn't see it. Muffet took him to the woodshed.
Our other masked weakness is post-passing. Sometimes we look like Princeton but sometimes we look like Amateur Night at Wheeling WV Junior High. This, I believe, IS something that will get better and better with cumulative success and failure on-the-job --- fortunately Muffet's troops are so good elsewise that she can afford to let the girls continue to try to figure when and when not. Jewel's weakness, by the way, is similar in that she's a passing risk-taker who doesn't get it correct quite enough either.
What we are REALLY good at now is mental toughness and effort, to frame our superb individual talents. We saw, again, in the first half, Muffet sense that toughness [mainly in the paint,] was slack, and put in both Huffman and Cable at the same time [Westbeld too, as both Reimer and Turner needed a "reassessment" bench moment]. Huffman unfortunately got called for three fouls [mainly BS] but gave the grit missing [along with Madison who always does] while she was in there. Toughness established, we walked away from them.
Our weak area was somewhat hidden but still subtly there --- it's still the three bigs. Montana began the game with several successful post-ups with poor initial defensive battling and anticipation by our bigs, followed by lax back-up "help" when the Montana girl made her turn move. Had Montana continued to do this instead of their inexplicably crazy extra-long-range bombing attempts, they'd have played a much better game --- still lost, but would have better shown their talent which was pretty good. That Montana coach is allegedly a good one, but I didn't see it. Muffet took him to the woodshed.
Our other masked weakness is post-passing. Sometimes we look like Princeton but sometimes we look like Amateur Night at Wheeling WV Junior High. This, I believe, IS something that will get better and better with cumulative success and failure on-the-job --- fortunately Muffet's troops are so good elsewise that she can afford to let the girls continue to try to figure when and when not. Jewel's weakness, by the way, is similar in that she's a passing risk-taker who doesn't get it correct quite enough either.
What we are REALLY good at now is mental toughness and effort, to frame our superb individual talents. We saw, again, in the first half, Muffet sense that toughness [mainly in the paint,] was slack, and put in both Huffman and Cable at the same time [Westbeld too, as both Reimer and Turner needed a "reassessment" bench moment]. Huffman unfortunately got called for three fouls [mainly BS] but gave the grit missing [along with Madison who always does] while she was in there. Toughness established, we walked away from them.
