re: Who is our best defender to put on Clark?

Flaujae

Clark was able to play off of the Lady Cock player she was guarding to double team in the lane. This allowed her to rest on defense. We can't allow this to happen. We need to make her work on the defensive end to help blunt her offense.

It's the national championship. Any team that makes it this far will be a match-up kronlem in some capacity. They're probably saying the same about us.

Can't put morris on her due to foul trouble risk. Need A double down low to stop dribble drive

You can't let her facilitate too often to her teammates. South Carolina did a poor job guarding the high ball screen. Too many layups for the screener when the screener's defender got caught in the middle. South Carolina did a poor job rotating their defense. They rely so much on the rim protectors (this worked all year until last night) that they did not force the extra passes needed to allow the defense to catch up.

Her defender must fight tooth and nail over the ball screens. She will get her shots and make a bunch. What we give her will determine how efficient she is likely to be. Make her shoot on the move. Make her shoot long twos rather than threes. Guard her past the three point line, but not too far. If she makes 40 percent on 30 foot threes, no one will beat them.

My guess is that Poole will start on her. Poole is quick enough, strong enough, and tough enough to cause some grief. Let Poole try to tire her out. Hope that the two-day turnaround and a relatively tough game last night will decrease her efficiency. If we limit her to less than 40 points, rebound effectively, guard everyone else, and are relatively efficient on offense, we can win this game.

As I said above, we have to make her work on defense, too. Get her as tired as possible so that we can put them away in the 4th quarter.

We also have the X factor on the sidelines in Mulkey. (Don't forget that Starkey has seen it all as well.)

I know that we are slight underdogs and think this is understandable. But I like us to win this game!!!

It's going to be a challenge, but let's not pretend that they didn't lose to Maryland 96-68 along with 5 other games including Drake taking them to OT.

It’s gonna be Flau’Jae, dunno how this is a conversation. Morris is far too small and Poole does not have the speed and length to guard her consistently.

great post
SC did a terrible job on the high screen and roll, no defensive rotation whatsoever

clark’s threes hurt but they didnt kill SC as much as her dribble drives, SC made a big show of denying her high but they really didnt deny her from getting the ball whenever she wanted. by playing her so high, they gave her all the driving and passing lanes she wanted

my defensive plan would be to play off her a little bit, keep her in front of me to take away her drives, clog up their offense inside the three point arc and challenge clark to shoot long threes deep in the shot clock. if clark comes insides the arc with the ball, double her, rotate the defense to the ball side and make her give it up. clark can have all the 22 foot shots she wants, take your chances with her shooting long threes. she was 5/17 from three versus SC but 10/14 from inside the arc.

Long three pt misses become long rebounds that ignite a running game. It is tough for one player to consistently hit threes as the primary component of your offense.

SC and Staley fell victim to their ego and instead of adjusting their gameplan, they got tighter on clark which played right into Iowa’s hands. Going out four feet past the 3pt line to guard her didnt hurt clark at all, but it did over extend the SC defense

Right - even if Clark scores 40 - if the rest of the team gets nothing we win