match ups

Lauren Jackson and Penny Taylor

Penny Taylor and Lauren Jackson are both fantastic athletes and basketballers. In the future you can expect to see them representing Australia together doing themselves, as well as their country proud.
This isn't really a head to head match up, but a match up so you can see the wonderful talents both of these players have and how they can contribute to the Opals in the years to come.

STATISTICAL
CATEGORY 		WNBA
ROOKIE SEASON
 WNBL
2000/01 SEASON		 WNBL
2001/02 SEASON
  LAUREN PENNY LAUREN PENNY LAUREN PENNY
GAMES 29 32 20 21 13 20
COURT TIME (min) 1001 561 662 756 383 700
AVERAGE TIME (min) 35 17.5 33.1 36 29.5 35
FIELD GOALS m/a 149/406 86/225 157/322 209/437 128/224 205/449
FIELD GOAL % 37 38.22 48.76 47.83 57.14 45.66
3 POINTERS m/a 40/129 22/73 14/36 18/67 15/37 30/88
3 POINT % 31 30.14 38.89 36.87 40.54 34.09
FREE THROWS m/a 104/143 36/46 103/127 99/134 65/80 130/154
FREE THROW % 73 78.26 81.10 73.88 81.25 84.42
REBOUNDS 193 112 283 216 153 187
AVG REBOUNDS 6.7 3.5 14.15 10.29 11.8 9.35
ASSISTS 44 44 15 61 16 46
AVG ASSISTS 1.5 1.38 0.75 2.90 1.2 2.3
STEALS 54 35 15 52 10 44
AVG STEALS 1.9 1.09 0.75 2.48 0.8 2.2
BLOCKS 64 11 85 20 43 16
AVG BLOCKS 2.2 0.34 4.25 0.95 3.3 0.8
POINTS 442 230 431 535 316 570
AVG POINTS 15.2 7.19 21.55 25.48 24.3 28.5