Out & About: All Star Game Rochester 2

#6 posting 4.24.2007
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This game took place Saturday, April 21, 2007
MN ALL STAR SERIES
Rochester, MN
AAAA 101, AA 89

I gave the initial report on Saturday night on the gabcast channel. Here are some other tidbits.

AAAA led the entire game except for one tie at 4. I always talk about pp100 and tonight both teams had 100 possessions which made it easy to know how many points each team would get in 100 possessions. As is the case in most all star games, transition and quick hitters were in style. The longest possession may have lasted 20 seconds. There wasn't any great offensive strings in the first half. AAAAs did hold AAs scoreless for 7, 5, and 7 possessions. The AAAAs had 16 points on transition, and 12 on second chancers. That compares to the four points combined for AA on both situations. The two advantages AA had were 3s and free throws. AA had a hard time scoring in half court situations as the defensive heat and height of AAAA took its toll.

In the second half the offensive spigot was flowing steady for both squads early. AAAA was smoking at 135.3 pp100 in the first 17 possessions. The biggest AAAA lead came at 69-38 with 17 minutes to go. At five minutes to go AAAA led 93-71. It seemed that AAAA was going to easily reach the century mark, but as the clock wound down and victory seemingly assured, AAAA started to get extremely creative with their shots, and passes. Again it proved that true simplicity is hard. The French Pastry looked good, but in the long run was not good for the offensive health. AA took advantage of the theatrics by going on a 19-6 run. They had four 3 point plays, one way or another. AA closed to 97-89 with under 45 seconds to go. No one had the feeling that AAAA was in danger of losing, but the 100 mark looked far away. Angel Robinson made sure they crossed over the threshold with an out of bounds basket and then a rebound and coast to coast pull up. That ended the scoring at 101-89.

For AA Amy Stifter had 20 points leading both teams. Stifter looked like she may blow away in a stiff wind, but she was wiry and was perfect at the line. Stifter had 8 of the last 10 points by AA in the first half.

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

AAAA
STARTERS
Angel Robinson, St. Paul Central 12, 12, 100.0, .500
Ashlynn Fuller, Champlin Park 10, 14, 71.4, .357
Jamie Zelinsky, Park Center 6, 9, 66.7, .333
Lauren Young, Edina 16, 13, 123.1, .538
Jackie Hiebert, Hopkins 6, 6, 100.0, .500
BENCH
Tara Steinbauer, Bloomington Kennedy 16, 14, 114.3, .571
Kellie Schuneman, Centennial 4, 3, 133.3, .667
Elle Queen, Minnetonka 12, 9, 133.3, .667
Alyssa Karel, Cretin-Derham Hall 11, 10, 110.0, .500
Natalie Gigler, Champlin Park 8, 10, 80.0, .400

AA
STARTERS
Devin Bowlin, Winona Cotter 7, 12, 58.3, .333
Sami Mattson, Esko 13, 19, 68.4, .263
Annie Adams, Crosby-Ironton 14, 15, 93.3, .533
Rachel Hanson, Norwood-Young America 2, 4, 50.0, .250
Amy Stifter, Watertown-Mayer 20, 15, 133.3, .667
BENCH
Kristin Sczublewski, Pierz 6, 10, 60.0, .300
Megan Forster, Fairmont 3, 6, 50.0 .167
Erica Nord, Barnesville 8, 9, 88.9, .333
Paisley Larson, Kingsland 8, 3, 266.7, 1.000
Samantha Gacke Luverne 8, 7, 114.3, .571

TRENCH PLAYER
This could have gone to any number of players for AAAA and all would be worthy. But on this night it goes to Tara Steinbauer.

BY THE NUMBERS
AAAA 101, 100, 101.0, .490
AA 89, 100, 89.0, .420
made 3s: AA 11, AAAA 1
made fts: AA 22, AAAA 8
bench: AAAA 51, AA 33

DEFENSIVE WRAPS
AAAA
Ashlynn Fuller 11
Tara Steinbauer 7
Lauren Young 5
Angel Robinson 5
Jackie Hiebert 4
Alyssa Karel 3
Kellie Schuneman 3
Jamie Zelinsky 2
Elle Queen 2
Natalie Gigler 1
totals: 43

AA
Devin Bowlin 8
Rachel Hanson 6
Annie Adams 5
Samantha Gacke 5
Amy Stifter 4
Sami Mattson 3
Kristin Sczublewski 2
Megan Forster 1
totals: 34

I was going to put up the Southern MN Magic vs Swish game tonight, but Scout (our little dog) got away and we had to spend some time hunting him down. He moves even faster going after a bird than Angel Robinson on a break away.

Next up: tomorrow morning