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Mysticsfan12
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scrappy
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Posted: 09/19/17 1:26 am ::: |
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none of all the above emma. it's toliver has to stop thinking she is or wanting to be kobe bryant. selfish basketball never win!
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Michelle89
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Posted: 09/19/17 4:42 am ::: |
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Aladyyn wrote: |
adamj95 wrote: |
Aladyyn wrote: |
Hill should get more shots than Toliver because she's a more versatile and consistent scorer. |
Consistent? Hill is a career 34% shooter vs. Toliver at 44%. |
Game-to-game consistency. When Toliver's outside shot isn't falling she tends to take herself out of the game. When Hill's shot isn't falling she stays aggressive, gets to the line, and makes plays for other players.
Hill will get you 10-20 points almost every game. Toliver sometimes gets you 15, sometimes 5, sometimes 30. |
I agree with you on that. She stops being agressive and that cant happen but she is still your best pick& roll player.
Also i dont know what is worse. Stop shooting the ball when your not playing well or keep on taking shots when they are not falling (what Hill often does) while you have better players on your team...
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Aladyyn
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Posted: 09/19/17 5:28 am ::: |
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I don't care about Hill missing 5 shots in a row if she gets to the line 3 times and salvages a bunch of garbage possessions in the process. When you need buckets against a team like Minnesota, you can't go to EDD because they're going to guard her tight and not give you the opportunity. But their guards can't keep up with Hill and she's going to put an extra foul on 2 on their bigs. Sure, you don't want Tayler to be your 1st option, but her skillset is extremely valuable. Just a week ago Liberty fans were wishing they had a player like this, someone who can just take the ball and get 2 points on any given possession.
Toliver didn't just stop shooting when not playing well. She stopped playing point guard too. On most possessions she'd just bring the ball up, dump it to TRP and run off to hide in the corner. Our offense can't function like that. She got better about this by the end of the season and in playoffs, hopefully that carries over.
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kojthiabkuv
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Posted: 09/19/17 10:06 am ::: |
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Aladyyn wrote: |
I don't care about Hill missing 5 shots in a row if she gets to the line 3 times and salvages a bunch of garbage possessions in the process. When you need buckets against a team like Minnesota, you can't go to EDD because they're going to guard her tight and not give you the opportunity. But their guards can't keep up with Hill and she's going to put an extra foul on 2 on their bigs. Sure, you don't want Tayler to be your 1st option, but her skillset is extremely valuable. Just a week ago Liberty fans were wishing they had a player like this, someone who can just take the ball and get 2 points on any given possession.
Toliver didn't just stop shooting when not playing well. She stopped playing point guard too. On most possessions she'd just bring the ball up, dump it to TRP and run off to hide in the corner. Our offense can't function like that. She got better about this by the end of the season and in playoffs, hopefully that carries over. |
I noticed this too. It's unfortunate for the Mystics when she does this because she can be so lethal when she's playing point. Her body language just showed she was tired and didn't want to be involved.
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myrtle
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Posted: 09/19/17 4:26 pm ::: |
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kojthiabkuv wrote: |
Aladyyn wrote: |
I don't care about Hill missing 5 shots in a row if she gets to the line 3 times and salvages a bunch of garbage possessions in the process. When you need buckets against a team like Minnesota, you can't go to EDD because they're going to guard her tight and not give you the opportunity. But their guards can't keep up with Hill and she's going to put an extra foul on 2 on their bigs. Sure, you don't want Tayler to be your 1st option, but her skillset is extremely valuable. Just a week ago Liberty fans were wishing they had a player like this, someone who can just take the ball and get 2 points on any given possession.
Toliver didn't just stop shooting when not playing well. She stopped playing point guard too. On most possessions she'd just bring the ball up, dump it to TRP and run off to hide in the corner. Our offense can't function like that. She got better about this by the end of the season and in playoffs, hopefully that carries over. |
I noticed this too. It's unfortunate for the Mystics when she does this because she can be so lethal when she's playing point. Her body language just showed she was tired and didn't want to be involved. |
I assumed she was doing that because Mike set it up like that. Otherwise I think she's totally willing to have the ball in her hands. I would guess the idea was to try to get her some open shots.
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justintyme
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Posted: 09/19/17 6:43 pm ::: |
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myrtle wrote: |
kojthiabkuv wrote: |
Aladyyn wrote: |
I don't care about Hill missing 5 shots in a row if she gets to the line 3 times and salvages a bunch of garbage possessions in the process. When you need buckets against a team like Minnesota, you can't go to EDD because they're going to guard her tight and not give you the opportunity. But their guards can't keep up with Hill and she's going to put an extra foul on 2 on their bigs. Sure, you don't want Tayler to be your 1st option, but her skillset is extremely valuable. Just a week ago Liberty fans were wishing they had a player like this, someone who can just take the ball and get 2 points on any given possession.
Toliver didn't just stop shooting when not playing well. She stopped playing point guard too. On most possessions she'd just bring the ball up, dump it to TRP and run off to hide in the corner. Our offense can't function like that. She got better about this by the end of the season and in playoffs, hopefully that carries over. |
I noticed this too. It's unfortunate for the Mystics when she does this because she can be so lethal when she's playing point. Her body language just showed she was tired and didn't want to be involved. |
I assumed she was doing that because Mike set it up like that. Otherwise I think she's totally willing to have the ball in her hands. I would guess the idea was to try to get her some open shots. |
That's it exactly. The Lynx were bringing a ton of ball pressure when she was the primary handler. Reeve was trying to make her pass it. The counter to that from Mike was moving her to the 2 and trying to free her up with some back screens and other action.
Toliver is always Reeve's main focus. Even moreso than EDD. Toliver is one of those players that if she gets a flow to her, she will start hitting everything no matter how ugly. The best way to neutralize her is to not let her get going in the first place, before she's in that zone.
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Aladyyn
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justintyme wrote: |
myrtle wrote: |
kojthiabkuv wrote: |
Aladyyn wrote: |
I don't care about Hill missing 5 shots in a row if she gets to the line 3 times and salvages a bunch of garbage possessions in the process. When you need buckets against a team like Minnesota, you can't go to EDD because they're going to guard her tight and not give you the opportunity. But their guards can't keep up with Hill and she's going to put an extra foul on 2 on their bigs. Sure, you don't want Tayler to be your 1st option, but her skillset is extremely valuable. Just a week ago Liberty fans were wishing they had a player like this, someone who can just take the ball and get 2 points on any given possession.
Toliver didn't just stop shooting when not playing well. She stopped playing point guard too. On most possessions she'd just bring the ball up, dump it to TRP and run off to hide in the corner. Our offense can't function like that. She got better about this by the end of the season and in playoffs, hopefully that carries over. |
I noticed this too. It's unfortunate for the Mystics when she does this because she can be so lethal when she's playing point. Her body language just showed she was tired and didn't want to be involved. |
I assumed she was doing that because Mike set it up like that. Otherwise I think she's totally willing to have the ball in her hands. I would guess the idea was to try to get her some open shots. |
That's it exactly. The Lynx were bringing a ton of ball pressure when she was the primary handler. Reeve was trying to make her pass it. The counter to that from Mike was moving her to the 2 and trying to free her up with some back screens and other action.
Toliver is always Reeve's main focus. Even moreso than EDD. Toliver is one of those players that if she gets a flow to her, she will start hitting everything no matter how ugly. The best way to neutralize her is to not let her get going in the first place, before she's in that zone. |
That's not quite what I was talking about. She checked out of multiple regular season games the way I described.
When Cloud is in, she's the primary ballhandler, Toliver playing off-ball in that situation is by design. When the starting 5 is in and Toliver stops trying to do anything on offense, that's something else.
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