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Message: [QUOTE="Willowglen, post: 4430265, member: 9659"] Aubrey Griffin will be an enormously valuable player this year. She is fast and athletic and a great defender. She will score some, but doesn’t need to. I watched the UNC men the other night, and reminded myself that I thought UNC made an error a few years back recruiting Leaky Black, a 6”8 lockdown defender who guarded Aubrey’s talented brother from Duke last year. Black was raw early on, but is really really good now - I couldn’t have been more wrong. He is great, just like Aubrey. Watch Black play, and comparing him to Aubrey Griffin is a real positive thing. Having a fast and athletic defender and rebounder is invaluable in the last 5 minutes of any close game. One of the most underrated skills too is the ability to run the floor (something Edwards does so well too). Of course, having Fudd on your team who is unguardable when hitting shots makes Aubrey the role player (relatively speaking) even better. By the way, Fudd starts a bit slow because right she is not used to taking over an entire game. That won’t last long, as her mother (Katie Smrcka Duffy) grew to be absolutely dominant at Georgetown (where I attended grad school). She is far more talented than Mom - who would readily concede this point. There will be games this year where Fudd will put games away early. Just too much skill for it not to happen. [/QUOTE]