My thinking is that the starting five should be better just on experience alone. I think Dye is capable of taking up the points and rebounds we'll miss from Davis. Key and Horston are certainly players we need a lot more from both scoring and efficiency in scoring. The bench will be far better and capable of relieving the starter from playing the amount of minutes they had to play last season. I think this is Kellie's best team of the three since she has been here. If Burrell can have the same season as last and Dye brings the same she gave at Troy then were in for a great season.
My thinking is that the starting five should be better just on experience alone. I think Dye is capable of taking up the points and rebounds we'll miss from Davis. Key and Horston are certainly players we need a lot more from both scoring and efficiency in scoring. The bench will be far better and capable of relieving the starter from playing the amount of minutes they had to play last season. I think this is Kellie's best team of the three since she has been here. If Burrell can have the same season as last and Dye brings the same she gave at Troy then were in for a great season.
Texas and Stanford should at least 12000 fans and South Florida will not be an easy game they are always a very good team.
From what I've seen of Dye, she's a completely different player than Davis. She's more physical on the interior but non-existent outside. She gives up some athleticism and length but compensates with strength and toughness.
I'd love to say we can plug Dye for Davis and roll. The stats don't bear that out. Even against lesser competition Dye is a step below Davis in almost every category including the ones I consider most important: points per play, points per scoring attempt, FT%, player efficiency rating, player offensive rating, player defensive rating, turnover rate. The only important stat where Dye is better is rebounding.
All this to say, I think we will see some unavoidable drop-off in our defense and we will have to make up for that through increased efficiency on offense through reduced turnovers, better shot selection, and better shooting percentages. We can't put out a lineup that shoots a poor percentage and expect to improve over last year.
From what I've seen of Dye, she's a completely different player than Davis. She's more physical on the interior but non-existent outside. She gives up some athleticism and length but compensates with strength and toughness.
I'd love to say we can plug Dye for Davis and roll. The stats don't bear that out. Even against lesser competition Dye is a step below Davis in almost every category including the ones I consider most important: points per play, points per scoring attempt, FT%, player efficiency rating, player offensive rating, player defensive rating, turnover rate. The only important stat where Dye is better is rebounding.
All this to say, I think we will see some unavoidable drop-off in our defense and we will have to make up for that through increased efficiency on offense through reduced turnovers, better shot selection, and better shooting percentages. We can't put out a lineup that shoots a poor percentage and expect to improve over last year.
Dye put up 16.6 points and 12.6 rebounds in 27 minutes of play on .495 percent shooting and .737 from the line. That was good for 464 points on 412 shot attempts. That is a 1.13 points per attempts. .61 points per minute played.
Against the two SEC opponents they played Miss St and LSU she went 21 for 38 for 55 percent. A small sample but she did well when she had the opportunity.Against competition not as tough as SEC. Hope those stats will translate, but doubt it. Don't think you can count on it. Agree with you about Key.
So are we going to be worse? What’s your take