Dream vs. Monarchs 7/22

[afoundingfan]

A disappointing effort at home after the long road trip. About the only thing exciting about this game was Jenny Boo rockin' a white suit.

Betty scored one point.

Ivory left the game in the 4th and did not return; Kasha (Comcast Player of the Game) mentioned something about Ivory getting a tooth knocked out, but I can't say that's definitely what happened. I'll tell you the refs were letting them play, which was advantageous (Bales and Feenstra) and then not so much (Lennox and Latta).

{update: Ivory did have a cap knocked out by Sholandra Robinson}

We dug ourselves our early hole and got beat on the inside; the problem I had was that our big gals were on the bench until about 4:30 left to play in the first. When they came in it made a difference at least somewhat on defense: the team recorded twelve blocks, Bales had five and Katie had four.

We got within five points and then Sac went on a run and then it was 12...then 16...then Izi (4 of 16 FG) got T'd up...she fouled Kara Lawson (I thought it was Kim Smith), got pissed and slapped the ball out of bounds. Note to Izi: Play defense. And grow up.

Shooting: Izi I already mentioned. Young, 1/7 FG; Bales, 2/7 FG ; Feenstra, 2/6 FG. Note Bales and Feenstra, these are inside misses. Overall 23/66 or 34.8%. From three point land, 3/19, or 15.8%.

Kasha Terry (yes, I know Sac's starters played half the game or less) continues to make her point for staying in her starting spot, but she needs some help.

We did win rebounds 38-34.

21 points for Sac on 19 Dream turnovers.

Wished there could have been a better effort for the
homecoming.

Back to work.

[haynielicious4]

Hey AFF,

Thanks for the great summary! Very complete - you should write professionally!

I was at work & missed the whole thing. I see # 4 had (4) fouls too - a pretty brutal game the way it sounds....

Much appreciated,

Mike in MN

[jordan3]

I was disappointed with today's game as well. My main concern was lack of defense by our guards. Powell, Larson, Robinson, and Newton got any and every shot they wanted today. Betty Lennox was not in the game at all. Her one point game in the last 3 minutes of the game. It was if someone told her to stop shooting. In her place, they sent Izzy out. She threw up everything from the opening minutes to final seconds. This really hurt us to some degree as well.

Kasha played well considering. Bales and Feenstra had some fairly good defensive stands. Overall, our offense was poor and the defense was worse.

Hopefully, we will come to play on Friday against the Mystics.

[jaye]

feenstra played 17 mins and got 2 rebounds..... geeezzz

[civic97]

...shakes head... Where was B-Money??? She was out there but she didn't look like she was IN the game one bit.

I will continue to be annoyed when players score on Feenstra because she just stands there, with hands down. We had some good inside plays but I completely agree with afoundingfan--Feenstra and Bales should NOT be missing inside shots.

Our shooting needs serious work. Sacs post players can shoot from outside the paint just as well as they can from the inside. We definitely need to take a page out of their book on this one.

Kara Lawson was killing us with her shooting, yet we didn't turn up the defense until late in the game and it was still lax at that.

Nnamaka was DNP yet again. This has been talked about in her thread but I'd like to see her on the court again.

Did I see a block from Haynie??...An upside to this game.

We looked like the team who was 0-19 (or whatever the losing streak was before our first win) only without the burring desire to win. I watched the Mystics play over the weekend and we have ALOT of work to do before Friday.