Beggin Begins at NM, A Look at the Lynx

#1 posting 6.23.2006
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ALL STAR GAMES
MI
The West Michigan All Star Classic was won by the Blue over the Gold 59-57. Lauren Maouthaan led the Blue with 13. High point honors went to Samantha DeNio, Oakridge of the Gold team. DeNio will be headed to Grand Valley State in the fall. Here is more on the contest from the Muskegon Chronicle.
FINNS VS YOUPERS
The UP team defeated the traveling squad from Finland 58-46, but the game was delayed with a power outage. Nicole Asiala, Houghton, led the UP team with 18. Here is more from the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette.

COACHING NEWS
COLLEGE
UM Crookston has rehired assistant Abby Hearn. she will provide some continuity for new coach Mike Roysland. Here is the Crookston Daily Times with more.

COACHING OPENINGS

OFF SEASON WORKOUTS
COLLEGE
Amy Beggin, Roseville is now in the heart of off season workouts at New Mexico. Find out what they are up to with the Albuquerque Tribune's story. Here is another New Mexico story about their schedule. In it, coach Flanagan expects Beggin to make an immediate impact. Read on.

SCHOOLS & ATHLETICS
WI
Should Schools be in the Athletic Business? This is the title of an article found in the Wisconsin State Journal. It all started because of requests to raise the number of games from the current 20 in basketball.

SUMMER LEAGUES
MN
Bigfork has a 6-0 record in the Deer River Summer League. The big contest will next week with Grand Rapids.

TOURNAMENTS
MN
A couple of weeks ago Barnum held a tournament which they won. Bigfork finished second with an iron five. They defeated Pierz by 25, then Crosby-Ironton by five before losing to the host team by 7.
SD
The Dakota Showcase is to be held next Thursday-Saturday in Sioux Falls. Here is a story that appeared in the Vermillion Plain Talk. I plan on attending this event next week.

POLICE BLOTTER
WI
Former Hortonville coach David Janssen entered a plea of not guilty to three felony sexual assault charges. Jury selection will take place on Jan. 22, 2007. Here is more on the case from the Appleton Post Crescent.

THE LIST
AAU ROSTERS
VERBALS
CALENDAR

A LOOK AT THE LYNX
vs Connecticut 6/22/2006

NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, points, possessions, pp100, floor %
MINNESOTA
STARTERS
Amber Jacobs 6, 8, 75.0, .375
Seimone Augustus 15, 15, 100.0, .400
Kristen Mann 4, 8, 50.0, .250
Timika Williams 6, 10, 60.0, .300
Nicole Ohlde 16, 12, 133.3, .667
BENCH
Svetlana Abrosimova 7, 7, 100.0, .429
Adrian Williams 2, 3, 66.7, .333
Vanessa Hayden 4, 7, 57.1, .286
Megan Duffy 2, 2, 100.0, .500
Tynesha Lewis 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Team 0, 2, 0.0, .000 (two 24 second violations)

CONNECTICUT
STARTERS
Lindsey Whalen 16, 17, 94.1, .471
Katie Douglas 12, 8, 150.0, .625
Nykesha Sales 5, 5, 100.0, .400
Taj McWilliams-Franklin 8, 7, 114.3, .571
Margo Dydek, 16, 14, 114.3, 114.3, .500
BENCH
Laura Summerton 0, 2, 0.0, .000
Megan Mahoney 7, 8, 87.5, .375
Asjha Jones 13, 8, 162.5, .875
Erin Phillips 2, 2, 100.0, .500
Jamie Carey 0, 1, 0.0, .000
Team 0, 2, 0.0, .000 (another two 24 second violations)

BY THE NUMBERS
Minnesota 62, 74, 83.8, .391
Connecticut 79, 74, 106.8, .500

If we discount the first six possessions for MN they ended up with a 77.9 pp100, and .353 floor %. MN jumped out to a 9-2 lead, after 5/6 on their first six possessions. Then it was an 0/11 Sahara Style drought and Connecticut finished off the quarter with a 14-2 run.
Connecticut had two mini bursts of activity in the 2nd quarter with a 4/5 possession string to go from an 18-16 lead to 26-20 (8-2 run). Also later in the quarter they had a four possession string and another 8-2 run.
MN was able to tie the game at 36 and again at 40, but that was the last time the Lynx would be so close. They ended the 3rd quarter down 55-45. Another scoring drought--this time 7 possessions worth--put them in a hole they could not dig themselves out of. This was the key break point. All seven possessions ended up with shots that did not connect. Connecticut closed the quarter with a four possession string.
The Lynx will have one day to figure out how to smooth out the offense before taking on the New York Liberty.

What we have here is a graph of how the Lynx pp100 offense and defense have been performing throughout the year. I don't know why my x & y axis were blocked out. The Blue line indicates the Lynx pp100 on offense, the Red line is the pp100 on Defense. There is quite a bit of variation in the Offensive numbers, while the defense has been pretty consistent. Without the numbers, on the y side (again I apologize) but the 100 line is split between the first red and the first blue. So the Dpp100 has 8 over 100, and the Opp100 has 5. I will try to get the bugs out so we can all see both axis marks.

Thanks readers for the tips and information.

Next up: later today with MN Stars Schmitz vs MN Stars Antl