Out & About: Holy Angels/Blaine

#4 posting 11.25.2006
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HUDSON TURKEY CLASSIC
HOLY ANGELS stars 60, BLAINE bengals 54

There was no flow in this game that saw 47 free throws made. Every 10 seconds on average I was listening to a whistle symphony. Physical play, but bodies out of control on defense, resulted in 48 fouls called. I don't like watching a free throw parade, but one broke out in this game.

Again it was a slow starter with Blaine connecting on a Heather Gillund basket and one, but that was the only score in the first 12 possessions by either team. Of course I realize it is early in the year and teams aren't fine oiled machines....yet. But the stoppages of play were herky jerky and the knocks and pings in the engine were sputtering for both teams. Holy Angels took control with a 9-0 run in the quarter with Slawson getting things rolling. Slawson had 6 of the 13 for the quarter. In the first quarter Holy Angels led 13-6, but their pp100 for the quarter would be 56.5; Blaine's was even lower at 27.3.

The second quarter was much better for offensive efficiency, but the whistles were still tooting. In the quarter Holy Angels pushed the lead at 19-9. Then Blaine had their own run at 11-0. The Bengals actually took the lead at 22-21 with a transition lay up by Alyssa Harnes off a rebound by Jackie Kelly. Holy Angels retook the lead due to Mary O'Brien's actions. She scored seven points in the last four possessions on a put back, a transition lay up, one free throw, and a back cut. That closed the half with Holy Angels up 30-26.

Blaine spent the rest of the night trying to climb back up that mountain. But still the whistle symphony blared on with stoppages at 6:31; 6:22; 6:20; 6:11; 6:04.... Blaine was able to pull to 37-35 with a Kelly three from the top of the key. Emily Backes hit her own 3 on the right wing for HA and it was soon back up to seven points. Blaine did close with a 5-0 run to make it 44-41.

The fourth quarter was a true ft paraders paradise with only one field goal scored by HA out of the 16 points, Blaine found the range for three field goals in the quarter. The game remained at six most of the quarter. Kelly scored a transition lay up off a HA miss to make it 55-52 with 47.1 seconds left. But HA made free throws on three of their next four possessions.

NUMBERS EXPLAINED
player, points, possessions, pp100, floor %

HOLY ANGELS
STARTERS
Laura Rieger, 12, 15, 80.0, .400 good vision when dribbling. a good pull up jumper. RF: needs to handle late game pressure situations better
Kaitlin Robinson, 7, 12, 58.3, .333 cashed in at the line. RF: didn't score a field goal; got into fumbles and traveling issues under pressure. favors spin too much
Katie Hanson, 2, 4, 50.0, .250 intriguing player. good frame, made a reverse lay up. RF: foul problems. I want more from her. She needs to go out and grab the chance.
Maggie Slawson, 18, 23, 78.3, .391 a savvy player with a nice crossover. good range. good pull up jumper. had the makings of a pull back move. RF: want more consistency. picked up offensive foul trying to force things.
Jaime Birr, 3, 4, 75.0, .500 big frame that wasn't used that much. RF: threw behind in transition.
BENCH
Sarah Jelgerhuis, 2, 3, 66.7, .333
Ashley Stewart, 2, 4, 50.0, .250
Mary O'Brien, 9, 9, 100.0, .667 long, lanky, good instincts and movement without the ball. seemed to be in the right spot at right time. back cut, RF: dribbles with head down. picked up too many fouls.. need to get in better position defensively with her feet.
Emily Backes, 3, 3, 100.0, .333
Jaci Harens, 0, 2, 0.0, .000
Erinn Sanstead, 2, 1, 200.0, 1.000

BLAINE
STARTERS
Alissa Dombek, 3, 5, 60.0, .200 RF: press bothered and harrassed her.
Heather Gillund, 4, 7, 57.1, .286 the center threat. RF: had a groove in the bench due to fouls.
Lindsey Baumgartner, 12, 15, 80.0, .533 good athlete RF: forced offense at times.
Alexandra Pafko, 0, 3, 0.0, .000 another good athlete. in for defense late; RF: out for offense
Alyssa Harnes, 17, 18, 94.4, .444 a 3 threat. RF: didn't score a basket in the second half. Took a while to get heated up. had zero in the first quarter on 7 possessions.
BENCH
Jamie Briant, 0, 4, 0.0, .000
Jackie Kelly, 14, 19, 73.7, .368 usually starts, but is coming off an ankle injury. made big shots to bring Blaine back. RF: passing execution too high.
Mackenzie Suda, 2, 9, 22.2, .111 RF: out of control on a drive and threw the ball up at the net.
Tracie Gillund, 2, 2, 100.0, .500 RF: needs to work on ball handling

TRENCH PLAYER
Even though she fouled out of the game Mary O'Brien for being consistent on offense and in the right spot at the right time on offense.

BY THE NUMBERS
Holy Angels 60, 80, 75.0, .400
Blaine 56, 82, 68.3, .341
Terrible first quarter dampened their numbers. free throw parades have no flow. Both teams played extremely hard the whole court. both teams worked both sides of the floor on offense. They just couldn't hang on to it, or finish once they launched.

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