In Reply to: Van Lith for LSU is a serious ball hawk posted by barrya on March 30, 2024 at 10:42:40
Brown is key but with defense and stability out there, not shooting the ball
that's a deficit for us - not threatening them with two of our five players.
Jones just missed again from three point range.
Rice and Osborne not on offensively and when you compare matchups - Betts may be the best player out there but her margin over Morrow and Reese isn't that large whereas Van Lith has a huge advantage over Jones and Morrow is doing better than anyone else out there in the back court
We are not being careful with the ball against an outstanding defensive team and we're "making up for it" by shooting very poorly from any distance
And as I write this, Rice finally gets it going and brings us back to within two points.
For us to have a chance here, Rice MUST avoid deeper foul trouble and be available in full leader and scorer mode in the second half for us as she was in our last game