‘Birds best Loyola

[normalbird]

The ‘Birds win over a Loyola last night gives them 9 wins, surpassing last year’s 8 wins, with at least 8 games remaining.

Although Loyola is not a very good team, and the ‘Birds certainly didn’t play a textbook game, there were some good things that portend well for the future.

Paige Saylor continues to improve at the point, both as a defender and a scorer. Katrina Beck took advantage of Loyola sagging to double our bigs and scored when it was critically important. Hannah Green never gives less than 110%, whether she’s on the floor or on the bench.

I would buy stock in this team’s future under Coach Gillespie. We should all be very excited about the future of Women’s Basketball at ISU.

 

[Love+basketball]

All good praises...there is going to be upside in improvement in Saylor when the coach is invested in her individual development and growth. She is averaging 40min a game which for sure is a confidence builder and that has improved. Hannah for sure is a fighter to the end and sparks energy from her team. The team is strong defensively but we still need much improvement and investment in offensive sets n scoring and getting better involvement from additional guard play from the team. Need to make teams pay more often when they want to double n triple the bigs, in most games Goods is always very well guarded. As other teams know we focus on our inside strength. Goods is good but looking forward to her n Hannah being 100% for conference play.

 

[bb fan]

Birds win again, beating Valpo today.

 

[normalbird]

Nice team effort to beat Valpo. Big shot by Beck, 3 treys by Livingston, terrific free throw shooting by Good. Bright future for Coach Gillespie and this team!