Texas travels to Ames on Saturday, 02/24/18

[DFW_Horn]

Rellah's arms are elastic and she can seemingly extend them to secure rebounds. As JoeDallas mentioned, Joyner is springy. For her size, I'm surprised how quick and high Joyner can jump. She has very good body control.

When our incoming Freshmen class arrives, it will be fun to watch all of our bigs as they all have such different strengths and talents.

Rellah’s 4 rebounds in just 5 minutes last night spurred me to look at rebounds per minute. She’s pulling them down at a rate of 0.360/minute, Joyner is at 0.363. That comes to 10.8 and 10.9 rebounds per 30 minutes played respectively. As @racerx5908 just mentioned, when Rellah gets her hands on the ball, its hers. Reminds me a bit of Zach Randolph (a guy everyone jokes about measuring his vertical in sheets of paper) who averaged 10+ rebounds for years through positioning and great hands. Rellah has shown the ability to elevate better than that and should only improve after another offseason of S&C.

Joyner could be a 13+ rebound/30 minutes player with even slight improvement when it comes to securing the ball on the way to the floor.

 

[racerx5908]

Joyner could be a 13+ rebound/30 minutes player with even slight improvement when it comes to securing the ball on the way to the floor.

I agree! All the other "talls" initially get their hands on the ball and often have it taken out of their hands shortly afterwards. Drives me crazy that they make the effort to get there and just assume no one else is fighting for the ball. I love the THIS IS MINE clamps that Rellah has on the ball. Nneka went one step further and would swing her elbows.....uhhhh, aggressively to ward off any would be opponents hoping to swipe the ball away from her.

 

[LutherIsMyDog]

As the end of the season approaches, I realize how sad I'm going to be as Brooke and Ariel get closer to ending their careers as Longhorns. They will be two of my all time favorite Horns.

 

[LutherIsMyDog]

Higgs was more than decent today. Her two threes killed Iowa’s momentum. She was 2/3 from the three and really 3/4 had the refs not stolen one from her. Add to that 4 rebounds, 5 assists, one steal and a total of 14 points.

Good article on Higgs battling through a little slump. It also highlights one of Tina's strengths as a coach as she can recognize minor corrections in technique that make a big difference with a shot.

 

[BabHorn]

Where was the Post play today.

MIA. Audrey-Ann (5-6 FGs; 12 pts), Jatarie (6-9 FGs; 12 pts) and Joyner (3-7 FGs; 12 pts) provided almost half of the 87 pts Texas scored in the first game.

Jatarie (1-6 FGs; 2 pts), Joyner (3-5 FGs; 6 pts), Jordan (2-4 FGs; 4 pts) and Rellah (0-1 FGs; zero pts) simply were inefficient in this game.

But our guards came to play!!

I know it doesn't show up on the stat chart but Rellah has improved on defense.

Rellah is quite a rebounder. A good sense of timing, I guess, since ishe doesn't have great hops.

Also watched Rellah's defense during the replay. Much better awareness of where her player is. Very smooth in helping and then getting back to her player, reducing the opening for a pass to that player. She is probably our best post rebounder now that Audrey-Ann is out. I still dislike her taking a three so early in a possession. She is being left open for a reason. I don't mind her taking the three, just not so early.

 

[BabHorn]

Brooke should be a shoo-in for Big 12 POW.

 

[JoeDallas]

You all are right about Rellah seizing the ball. Another player she reminds me of in that respect is Stacy Stephens.

 

[JoeDallas]

It's so great to read about Tina working with Lashann on her shooting mechanics. I guess the coaches do this with everyone? Hope so. I read somewhere that NBA teams have coaches specified simply as "shooting coaches."