Team Stats thru JV Tournament

Hi Girls,

Thought you might like to see our team stat leaders. I listed the top 4 in each category and at the end I am listing some conclusions based on the stats. The first game vs. NEA stats are lost so they are Not included. (Edit: I found the NEA Stats and have added them in.)

1- Team Field Goal %: 38.8%. 33.3% is the minimal winning score. We are doing pretty well but we have to remember that most of our scoring is lay ups so we need to spend more time improving our shooting and continue to improve our pressure defense and spread offense to get even more lay ups. I would like to see this go in the 40's, we are close.

2- Team Free Throw %: 35.6%. 50% is the minimum here and we are way off.

3- Individual rebounds: Defensive: Lindy, 36,Mer 16, Emily and Jamie 15

4- Individual rebounds: Offensive: Lindy 20, Jamie 11, Emily and Jesse 10.

5- Steals: Jamie 42, Jesse 39, Lindsey 27, Lindy 15 and Emily 13.

6- Assists: Lindsey 17, Jesse 10, Jamie 8, Lindy 6.

7- Blocks: Jamie 5, Lindsey 4, Jesse 2, Lindy and Emily 1.

8- FG%: Lindy 52%, Caroline 44%, Mer 38.1%, Jamie 37.7 % Basically as I said 33.3% is the minimum for a winning performance.

9- FT%: Lindy 80%, Caroline 66.6%, Mer 57%, Jesse 42.8%. 50% is the minimum winning FT shooting percentage. We need to improve and we will try to give it more time in practice.

10- We are averaging scoring for 9 games 29.1 points per game(ppg) Our opponents are averaging 21.3. Take out the first game vs. NEA that we won 47 to 4 and it is 23.5 for us vs. 21.3 for our opponents. That is a winning margin of 2.2 ppg. 4 points more per game on foul shooting and lets say 6 points more per game on better 1/2 court offense better offensive rebounding and less turnovers would raise our ppg by 10 points. That would be huge. As a matter of fact if we can keep our opponents down defensively 10 more points per game would probably make us win the conference title. Let's try to get there.

Some Conclusions:

1- We need to improve our Foul Shooting %. That is why they are called FREE throws.
2- We need to improve our individual shooting skills. We will devote more practice time to this.
3- We need to work on getting more offensive rebounds. Basically 2 out of every 3 does not go in, we are not getting our share of putbacks. Rebounding is mostly effort and determination and positioning.
4- We need to improve our 1/2 court offense to give us easier shots, thus improving our shooting percentage. Hopefully our new Viking offense will help.
5- If we can cut down on turnovers which is over 11 per game, that would give us more chances to score and less chances for the other team to get an easy shot. I would like to see us get this number down to maybe 7 per game. Zero would be better but 7 is a good realistic improvement that is attainable.
6- Never ever forget that our pressure Defense is still our best offense, we need to work to get even better at it. A steal and a fastbreak layups is the easiest way to score points. We will devote more time to somethings we can do.

We practice tomorrow (Monday the 28th) at 10:00am to 12:00pm. We need all of you there that can be there.

Play Hard, Play Smart and Play Together and when possible Play Fast!

Go Vikings

Coach May (Edited 5:00pm 12/28/09)