You call my comment ridiculous, but you have not provided one piece of empirical evidence that it was just a difference of 5 or 6 more minutes and a few more shots for a first-year player. In her first year, Riley Weiss averaged a mere 15.7 minutes and scored 7.1 PPG. In her next two seasons, she averaged 30.0 and 33.1 minutes, respectively, and scored 17.8 and 20.1 PPG.
What you are saying is factually false, yet I’m the one making a “ridiculous comment.”?!?!
It seems like some on this board would like to defend Meg Griffith at all costs, ignoring the reality that she makes first-year players with high upside ride the bench all too often.
Andy… you seem to forget that the 23/24 team had a lot of proven/experienced offensive weapons… Abbey, Kitty, and Cecelia Collins to name a few. Meg didn’t need to rely on Riley’s shooting that much that season.
Cost Riley the all-time scoring title??? That shouldn’t be a remote consideration for the head coach, especially for a freshman. Riley didnt start bc it wasn’t in the best interest of the team in Megan’s analysis.
2000 pts should be pretty easy–it would only require a lower average than she posted this year. Surpassing Abby is the real stretch: she’d have to average 22, and we’d have to play deep into the postseason.
But after much hard work on myself, I have decided that nice as it might be, the team’s overall success is more important than her individual achievement!
IMO, one of the keys to next season will be the development of Nasi’s offensive game, specifically her 3-pt shooting. If she can build some confidence in her shot, watch out.
Here are some fun facts about Nasi this season. She shot 50.5% from the floor despite going 0 for 22 from beyond the arc. That resulted in a 63.5% FG percentage (54/85) inside the arc!
I don’t know how Defensive Box Plus/Minus is calculated, but she’s among an elite list of players here… and the only one to have never started a game.
