Becky Hammon diversifies her game

While Becky Hammon’s scoring numbers may have dropped off so far this season, her value to the San Antonio Silver Stars is as high as ever, writes Terrence Thomas of the San Antonio Express-News. (Props to the Silver Stars Nation for the find.)

Yet despite being double- and triple-teamed by opponents, the 5-foot-6 guard’s play has remained effective.

“Becky is one of the best students of the game that I’ve been around,” Silver Stars coach Dan Hughes said. “If a team is going to show her a lot of attention in a certain way, she knows she can hurt that scheme by her distributing the ball well, by being patient.

“I think it’s just a maturation.”

The evolution has seen Hammon add passing, rebounding — even being a decoy — to her scoring tag. The diversity has been a key to why the Silver Stars (9-6) can stake a claim as one of the WNBA’s top teams.

Thomas goes on to note that the rest of the team has started to pick up the scoring slack as Becky’s been harrassed more and more.