She missed her first five 3-point attempts Sunday, the last hitting the rim, backboard, then the rim again twice before rolling off.
"The basketball kick, I wanted it to go straight in, but it kept hitting the rim.
The goal: to see how many free throws each player could make without hitting the rim.
Because, though only 5-foot-9, he could drop a basketball into a net without hitting the rim.
But his confidence has evaporated during his scoring drought and he missed one open 3-pointer so badly that it bounced off the backboard before hitting the rim.
For Holmes, one of the longest drivers on the tour, it was like shooting a free throw and not hitting the rim.
In front of 11,560 fans, most of them rooting against them, the Americans misfired, sometimes not even hitting the rim with their shots.
On offense, the Sooners had trouble hitting the rim, much less getting the ball through it, missing their first 6 shots and 17 of their first 20 on their way to 25 percent shooting in the first half.
I am still in disbelief about how much crap Courtney Lee took for that — you try running forty feet full-speed, jumping under a backboard, catching the ball as your head's going under the left side, then quickly laying the ball in as a seven-foot guy is trying to tip the shot (and illegally hitting the rim).
