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Clark should have been double teamed. The rest of the Iowa team can not beat us. If Clark has 33 points, we win. A double team could have shaved off a min. of 10 of her points.

People keep saying this that if Clark would've scored 10 less points by doubling her we win. But you do realize other people could have scored on these possessions right? Affolter had 16 points and Martin 21 for them also.

The thing about doubling a player like Clark is in the women's game they obviously aren't as quick as men. And even in the men's game they can't rotate fast enough when they double someone to prevent someone else from getting a wide open shot. That's what would've happened here as long as iowa had good spacing which they did. Doubling Clark would've just lead to someone else getting a wide open shot.

I think Clark is the type of player you just have to let her get hers because she's just going to. But don't let Affolter and Matin get 16 and 21. They got so many wide open easy baskets and that was really the difference.

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Posted by atltiger6487

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Posted on 4/3/24 at 9:47 am to tigerinthebayou

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I think Clark is the type of player you just have to let her get hers because she's just going to

but we didn't just let Clark get hers, we let her get a lot more. She scored 9 more than her season average.

So not only did our scheme not work, it was far worse than how other teams fared with her (on average).

Once it became clear that our defensive approach to Clark wasn't working, it was malpractice to not change it up.

As I said in other posts, and as others have also posted, we could've doubled Clark and forced the other Iowa players to beat us. We could've aggressively attacked all ball screens (we waited until mid 4th quarter to do that). We could've played denial defense full court to keep her from getting the ball - or at least make her work a lot harder to get it. We could've trapped Clark immediately in the frontcourt to force her to give up the ball. Maybe she gets it back later in the possession, but it burns shot clock and makes her work. We could've tried different defenders on her - which we did a little but HVL was guarding Clark for FAR too long.

There were a lot of things we could've tried. Maybe none of it would've worked, but damn, it's win or go home. Try it all.

This post was edited on 4/3/24 at 9:49 am

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