2024-25 DWBB Season

End of third quarter: Maryland 65, Duke 52.

Foul trouble.

Duke: Richardson 3, Jackson 2, Donovan 2, Mair 2, Okananwa 2, Wood 2
Maryland: Sellers 3, Dalce 3, Smikle 2, Poffenbarger 2, McDaniel 2
 
This is painful to watch. The missed shots and missed free throws are costing them the game. If they could make some of those open shots, they still have a chance of winning.
 
ecs15 said:
Toby is the real deal
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5-13 from the field, 5-10 from the line, airballed her only 3. She's got promise, but if those stats are "the real deal" we're in serious trouble. Same old, same old. Can't make layups. Okananawha is my favorite player, but 2-10 from the field doesn't cut it either. Foul shooting was terrible. This team has much work to do on fundamentals. No reason to be so inept around the basket. At least it's early.
 
buddy said:
5-13 from the field, 5-10 from the line, airballed her only 3. She's got promise, but if those stats are "the real deal" we're in serious trouble. Same old, same old. Can't make layups. Okananawha is my favorite player, but 2-10 from the field doesn't cut it either. Foul shooting was terrible. This team has much work to do on fundamentals. No reason to be so inept around the basket. At least it's early.
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Its a rerun of the last two seasons. At least the final score was respectable. The offense always seems to lag the defense. Coach Lawson recruits and practices with that priority.
 
I wouldn't say that our defense exactly dominated. We allowed 85 points and fouled a ton, plus we gave up just a ton of offensive rebounds and easy put-backs. We shot poorly, but we got looks. Steals was really the only major upside on defense. Which granted, was a pretty big upside, when we weren't busy clanking the layups.
 
Phredd3 said:
I wouldn't say that our defense exactly dominated. We allowed 85 points and fouled a ton, plus we gave up just a ton of offensive rebounds and easy put-backs. We shot poorly, but we got looks. Steals was really the only major upside on defense. Which granted, was a pretty big upside, when we weren't busy clanking the layups.
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It gave me PTSD watching those point blank misses, over and over again. I had nightmarish flashbacks to the P days. Some of them didn't even hit the rim.
 
DoubleBlue said:
Its a rerun of the last two seasons. At least the final score was respectable. The offense always seems to lag the defense. Coach Lawson recruits and practices with that priority.
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Really, I see a very different offense. We missed so many layups and free throw but scored 80 points. Two years ago we would have been lucky to score 60 in a situation like that.
 
The Kara has constructed her teams and emphasized defense, 80 points should be more than enough to win. And if we make 70% from the line, and hit two more putbacks we win. That is what is so frustrating. Giving up 85 is not good defense.
 
Maryland 85, Duke 80 (recap, box score, highlights, presser)

Duke women's basketball freshman Toby Fournier scored a career-high 15 points but a strong third quarter of shooting by 18th-ranked Maryland was too much for the 11th-ranked Blue Devils to overcome in an 85-80 setback at the XFINITY Center Sunday afternoon.

Duke (2-1) had four players finish in double figures and Jadyn Donovan registered a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Reigan Richardson had 13 points and Ashlon Jackson added 11 to round out Duke's top scorers...

Duke shot 41 percent for the game and just 35 percent from long range while the Terrapins knocked down 68 percent (6-of-9) three-pointers for the afternoon.



Duke WBB shared a couple of Coach Lawson's postgame quotes here and here.

"Tough game for us. Their physicality, their experience, their size was a difference-maker. You play these games because you want to learn about yourself. These types of games — you learn about each player. A lot for us to work on. I’m proud of my group."

"All of this is learning and growing. I’m excited to be with this group — not excited that we lost — but I’m encouraged by what I saw."
 
All of our players shot exactly 50% on free throws...except Vanessa, who needed to shoot more than 2 to make up for the others.

Road loss to a very talented, very experienced team. We start 1 senior, they start 4. I strongly dislike Maryland, but I'm not at all discouraged by this outcome.

Toby a bit uneven, but the talent and potential just oozes out of her. Excited for the growth of this program under Kara.

Reigan, our senior leader, needs to be on the court for more than 18 minutes, her fouls were possibly the difference.
 
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Stats @ Maryland

Here are the numbers from yesterday's game against the University of Maryland at the XFINITY Center in College Park, MD:


OFFENSE
Possessions: 84 (we really are playing fast this season, and this was fastest yet)
oRtg: 0.952 (1.073 adjusted, #9 per Torvik)
eFG%: 45.21% (bad)
3pt%: 35.29% (fine)
2pt%: 42.86% (not so fine)
%three: 23.29% (low)
FT rate: 35.62% (good)
OR%: 32.61% (OK)
TO%: 19.05% (OK)
a/to: 1.125 (very good)
%assisted: 60.00% (very good)
fast break pts: 19 (23.8%) (excellent)

DEFENSE
dRtg: 1.012 (0.868 adjusted, #92 per Torvik)
deFG%: 50.0% (bad)
3pt%: 66.67% (terrible)
2pt%: 42.11% (pretty good)
%threes: 13.64% (very low, thank goodness)
FT rate: 36.36% (lousy)
DR%: 64.10% (low)
TO%: 23.81% (very good)
a/to: 0.60 (good)
%assisted: 40.00% (decent)
stl%: 20.24% (very good)
blk%: 8.77% (not good)
fast break pts: 21 (24.7%) (terrible)


I haven't seen Duke play this fast since the Goestenkors era. I haven't actually checked, but off the top of my head, I can't remember a game with 84 possessions since I've been doing the box scores. Unfortunately, I think it was a little too fast. We just missed so many shots in the lane. And Kara clearly agreed that it was too much. She slowed the game down in the fourth quarter, and we still got in 84 possessions. As a result of slowing things down a bit, we actually scored a bit more efficiently, and closed the gap. Alas, it was too late to salvage a game where we dug ourselves into a 9-0 hole in the first three-and-a-half minutes, and never really got much closer from there.

Defensively, we were decent at protecting the paint, but not so good at defending the three. They had just as many made threes as we did, but importantly, they took roughly half as many shots to do it (9 v. our 17). And even our paint defense came at the expense of much too much fouling. We put them on the line for 24 shots, and they didn't miss much, converting 19 of them (79%). In contrast, we actually took more free throws, but converted fewer of them, going 14-26 for a woeful 54%. So even though they had fewer shots than we did, their better shooting and better FT conversion rate gave them the game.

It's a shame, because this game was definitely winnable. But OK, sometimes that's going to happen. We need to learn, practice the lessons against Dayton on Thursday, and then win our next tough road game next weekend.
 
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dudog84 said:
Reigan, our senior leader, needs to be on the court for more than 18 minutes, her fouls were possibly the difference.
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This is nothing new, but Coach Lawson always sits a player who gets a 2nd foul in the first half, for the rest of the half. Most coaches draw that line at 3 fouls in the first half. I believe Lawson picked up that strategy from Coach Summit in her time at Tennessee. Obviously the reasoning is to make sure the player is still around at the end of the game, not having fouled out.

The problem is that it really disrupts team chemistry and flow. I agree there is value in sitting out a player for a few minutes to clear the head, but then playing a few more minutes before halftime can be done with caution on the aggressiveness. I believe Coach is trying to send a message that she wants aggressive defense but without fouls. Unfortunately that is not always possible and its a high price to pay for sending that message.

I think Coach needs to loosen up on this 2-fouls-and-your-out rule.
 
DoubleBlue said:
This is nothing new, but Coach Lawson always sits a player who gets a 2nd foul in the first half, for the rest of the half. Most coaches draw that line at 3 fouls in the first half. I believe Lawson picked up that strategy from Coach Summit in her time at Tennessee. Obviously the reasoning is to make sure the player is still around at the end of the game, not having fouled out.

The problem is that it really disrupts team chemistry and flow. I agree there is value in sitting out a player for a few minutes to clear the head, but then playing a few more minutes before halftime can be done with caution on the aggressiveness. I believe Coach is trying to send a message that she wants aggressive defense but without fouls. Unfortunately that is not always possible and its a high price to pay for sending that message.

I think Coach needs to loosen up on this 2-fouls-and-your-out rule.
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Coach's rule is even more stark than that. Her general rule is that when your fouls equal the quarter number, you sit. She will make occasional exceptions in quarters 1 and 3, but the 2-before-the-half rule she breaks only if there's a complete emergency. I agree that she sticks to that rule a little too strictly.
 
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