Part of the criticism on Barber I think comes from the fact that his “mistakes” are amplified quite often by swings in the game, that Lacey has to help us recover from, but could not last night. I agree, Barber brings a lot to the table. He seems to play a little loose with the ball but generally takes care of it. But sometimes is careless at inopportune moments. And then sometimes his “random” jumpers cause a long rebound and instant points for the other team. I agree with the comment that the pieces are there but he doesn’t quite see the game with the right lens…yet. He is in some sort of shooting slump, his jumper is way, way too flat, you can see it. (He’s not Kobe where he can shoot it exactly at eye level.) Washington shot out of his slump, I believe Cat can too. The only problem is that you don’t want your point guard to be shooting too many jumpers anyway (distribution is the game, feed the post!) so the misses are amplified.
Also I love Anya’s energy but he is plays like a freshman sometime, footwork needs a lot of work, hopefully they are working with him on that. Des isn’t playing because he makes a lot of “in the moment” errors, that I was really hoping he would learn from last year. So its a “net effect” thing now. I hope he can find his way back to meaningful minutes, for senior leadership and knocking down free throws : )
