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Date Posted: 05:51:30 01/07/02 Mon
Author: Tom
Author Host/IP: sungold1.fi.ibm.com / 195.212.29.41
Subject: Re: Rotate positions
In reply to: HomerCecil 's message, "Dear lord, please tell me they didn't really lose to Duquesne by 21...The same Duquesne Dukes who lost to Florida by 30 points??? Okay I'm going to go cry now...I had been at least hoping for a WNIT bid, but let's be honest, that's a long shot at BEST now." on 05:22:11 01/05/02 Sat

this team is clearly struggling and as someone earlier
>mentioned the team is a slow motion version of last
>year's team even though they seem almost as athletic.
>Amy is playing hard every night but it's not PG s job
>to take the most shots and forget creating open space
>for other players.
>It looks like all the shots this team takes at the
>moment as contested last second shots. Why ? The ball
>is not moving, PG s holding the ball way too
>long..Just go and see the games.

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Amy cannot be blamed. Whoever mentioned that the other players don't know the plays is exactly right. Even Kreager, who should definitely know them by now, seems lost at times. Amy is constantly directing people - I've seen her even get frustrated and start almost pounding the ball into the floor rather than dribbling it because people are not going where they're supposed to. As many offensive sets that Xavier has, it's going to take a while for the new players to learn them all, but it seems that progress is slow to be made. But Amy cannot be blamed - when she had to sit out the second half against Duquesne, the Muskies were outscored by 17, whereas they were within 4 points when she was playing. Point to the post players for not holding the seal on their defenders and not being aggressive enough. This team will be inconsistent all year because of its youth and inexperience but it will get better. We've been spoiled the past few years so now we just need to be patient for a while. (NT) -- HomerCecil, 10:21:22 01/07/02 Mon
- Dear God you are right about Amy. She is the only one with any conisistency and I too have observed her frustration with others not being able to run the plays. (NT) -- DAve, 13:57:17 01/07/02 Mon
- And even though the leading assist player in the country last year, Reeta, is playing much more SG this year she too appears to struggle to find someone open. Assists as of January 5: Waugh - 21, Piipari - 63. That is an average of 11 apg between the two of them! (NT) -- DAve, 14:10:08 01/07/02 Mon
  - Make that Waugh - 91 (NT) -- DAve, 14:12:00 01/07/02 Mon