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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 17:13:14 GMT -6
The Coyotes are off and running. Northwestern leads 16-9 in the first.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 17:15:01 GMT -6
The Yotes are having trouble hanging with Northwestern so far.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 17:28:36 GMT -6
The Coyotes passing has been pretty good so far. They have been about a step behind but are hanging in there down 24-20.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 17:39:38 GMT -6
31-23 at half. NW is just simply the better team. They are quicker to the ball and pesky on D. The Coyotes are just playing so so.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 18:11:45 GMT -6
The coyotes were down double digits but have made a run to get it to 4. Do the coyotes have enough in them to pull it out. My gut says no but want to be wrong. NW is absolutely winning the boards.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 18:20:52 GMT -6
NW back up by 6 after SD cut it to 2. This is one of those uphill battle games where NW extends the lead and SD comes back but can't wrestle away the lead. About 8 minutes to go in the 4th.
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Post by fightsd on Nov 25, 2021 18:36:03 GMT -6
Pretty clear at this point that we don't match up well with P5 schools in general. We don't have the length to compete in the post. That's been the difference here
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 18:39:01 GMT -6
The Coyotes lost 73-57 . I really thought this would be a win today but I saw a NW team that was clearly the better team. I think I have too high of expectations for this team. They just are not up to the level of these power conference teams for the most part. Time to focus on the Summit League and hope to win the Summit tourney but that is about the ceiling right now. Texas A&M is probably gonna put on a whipping tomorrow. The Yotes are not ready for this level of basketball.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 18:41:56 GMT -6
Pretty clear at this point that we don't match up well with P5 schools in general. We don't have the length to compete in the post. That's been the difference here Northwestern was better everywhere else as well. It is not just length but quickness to. I won't use a particular A word today.
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Post by fightsd on Nov 25, 2021 18:47:38 GMT -6
Pretty clear at this point that we don't match up well with P5 schools in general. We don't have the length to compete in the post. That's been the difference here Northwestern was better everywhere else as well. It is not just length but quickness to. I won't use a particular A word today. Not sure I disagree with that. They had that Burton gal but outside that, I'd say our guard play was about where it needed to be to win. We just don't have the size to compete down low. The teams with multiple 6'3"+ girls do to us in the post what Sjerven does to the rest of the Summit League
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 25, 2021 18:53:00 GMT -6
Well Northwestern is unranked not receiving votes. If the Coyotes can't win these games we have no real right to complain about not being ranked or receiving votes. The Yotes don't deserve to be anywhere near the top 25.
NW was using their quickness to get into the passing Lanes and it caused turnovers. Alot of that was the guards. NW was just better all the way around.
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Post by sdyotefan on Nov 25, 2021 23:05:42 GMT -6
If you look at the stats and not just post constantly it is more interesting than one might think! Yes they were better tonight but we gave them 6 FTs at the end and for the night they were 10 of 10. The Yotes were 2-4. They had 17 TOs and the Coyotes 15. They scored 18 more in the paint but the Yotes missed several under the basket that they normally would make. Their D was very good. They outscored us 19-2 on fast breaks. Rebounds were in their favor 37-25. Even with all that the Coyotes made it very interesting with their come back and NW hit some 3s at the end to counter the comeback.
But no the sky is not falling!! Go Yotes!!!
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Post by Coyote Fan on Nov 26, 2021 2:13:59 GMT -6
If you look at the stats and not just post constantly it is more interesting than one might think! Yes they were better tonight but we gave them 6 FTs at the end and for the night they were 10 of 10. The Yotes were 2-4. They had 17 TOs and the Coyotes 15. They scored 18 more in the paint but the Yotes missed several under the basket that they normally would make. Their D was very good. They outscored us 19-2 on fast breaks. Rebounds were in their favor 37-25. Even with all that the Coyotes made it very interesting with their come back and NW hit some 3s at the end to counter the comeback. But no the sky is not falling!! Go Yotes!!! You can cherry pick all you want but the bottom line is that Northwestern was the significantly better team and they were definitely better in the eye test exam. Every time the Coyotes made a run NW always had the answer when they needed it. We are now seeing this team fall short in all of these power conference games so far. The Sky is not falling but the ceiling right now is a tourney birth and another first round loss. If they get there the seed will not be very good and they will play a team at least as good as Northwestern or Oklahoma. This Coyote team is built very well for the Summit League and not to compete with these Power Conference teams. They are just too good and too talented. The facts bare it out.
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Post by gopheryote on Nov 26, 2021 7:29:35 GMT -6
5 games in, it is pretty safe to say this team's strength right now is not on the offensive end. Warren Nolan has USD's offensive efficiency at 81.4 (ranked 250th), meaning we are scoring .814 points per possession. The team was over 1.0 last season. One observation - match-up zones appear to be kryptonite to motion offenses like the Yotes run. And that makes sense if you think about how that defense is played (specific rules for how to cover passes/dribbles as opposed to simply covering people/zones). That said, I don't think anyone in the SL runs one, and we aren't likely to face it much more.
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Post by fightsd on Nov 26, 2021 7:38:13 GMT -6
5 games in, it is pretty safe to say this team's strength right now is not on the offensive end. Warren Nolan has USD's offensive efficiency at 81.4 (ranked 250th), meaning we are scoring .814 points per possession. The team was over 1.0 last season. One observation - match-up zones appear to be kryptonite to motion offenses like the Yotes run. And that makes sense if you think about how that defense is played (specific rules for how to cover passes/dribbles as opposed to simply covering people/zones). That said, I don't think anyone in the SL runs one, and we aren't likely to face it much more. You'll see that number get back above 1 once we get into league play. The difference so far has been in the post. I know I keep saying that, but it's the truth. Sjerven is trying so damn hard to get her offensive game going against bigger stronger inside players. She catches the ball inside then tries to put a post move on a girl that doesn't have to leave her feet to disrupt the shot. It results in her throwing up crazy shots and trying to draw contact. I'd really like to see a shot chart that shows makes vs misses from the low block. I bet it's horrendous, but will get better once we start paying some teams that can't bully us in the post. Because of the difference in size in the post, so far this team has had to rely on outside shooting to stay in games, and that's a tough thing to do.
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