In Reply to: We are 31 - 2 on the year posted by Eight8clap on March 22, 2025 at 11:38:21
Not to take anything away from our ladies.
Michigan showed how to defend Watkins on the pick. The lady that has the picker immediately goes around and meets Watkins other side. It makes a funnel that Watkins can't get out of. The second defender stops her progress, the picker keeps her from going straight ahead, and the chaser keeps her from going back. Effectively, you're using their picker in a three player trap on the dribbler. Seems so simple, but I've never seen that before.
That's the second step in stopping Watkins. First, when they are not picking, you bring a second tall defender as soon as she starts to turn the corner on her defender - Betts did that very well in the B10 Champs. The next step in defending her: at that point she's going to whip that ball out to an undefended sharpshooter in the corner. Now, start reading that and deflecting that pass.
Waiting to see when sc plays a decent team