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...mercy of her teammates to get her the ball if she is to turn in a good performance. Guards handle the ball so often and in such a position so as to have the luxury to create their own shots by way of a drive, a spot-up jumper, a jump shot off the dribble, etc. Forwards and centers need to receive the ball in order to do something with it, and Janowski is not receiving the ball very often...
...then West took over. First she dribbled unobstructed from the left wing across the lane for a baseline lay-in. Then she nailed a spot-up three-pointer from the top of the key. For her next performance, she hit a jumper in the lane off a Penn break...
Kowal, meanwhile, is the Crimson's back-up point guard for co-captain Megan Basil. Kowal provides a change of pace from Basil's style--while the latter is more of a spot-up shooter and half-court offense executor, Kowal's game is collapsing defenses by penetrating and then dishing to an open teammate. She is an excellent ball handler with superb quickness, and she is seldom unnerved...
...Bulls' fourth-quarter strategy is to dump the ball into Jordan. But he's missing. He's missing on the tongue drive from the wing, missing on the turnaround from the baseline, missing on the spot-up threes...
...formula which had worked so well for the Crimson last season--a transition game based on defense, rebounding superiority, team speed and spot-up three-point shooting--was turned against them by a more talented, more aggressive Arizona team...