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Message: [QUOTE="Buzzyboy, post: 3756327, member: 1364"] I'm hoping that Westbrook is going to be a key contributor this year but she hasn't played competitive basketball for almost two years and recently had some more surgery on her knee or knees .... the presumption that she is going to be a dynamo for this team and Anna is going to be almost an afterthought is based on nothing more than an opinion .... there aren't all that many people here on the Boneyard who have ever seen Westbrook play and have a sense of her abilities .... didn't someone post quite a while back that she had some serious turnover issues when she was with Tennessee .... why are people that apt to minimize Anna and her contributions last year and yet assume that Westbrook was a great talent (without seeing her play) and not be wary of her coming back from a pretty serious knee issue ... why can't we assume that Anna might experience a good sized jump after her freshman year, particularly considering the fact that she not only came into a new program that historically plays at a high level but that she was coming to a new (foreign, to her) country and dealing with all the social issues that she may have been experiencing .... I would suggest that most players, no matter how talented, would have difficulties going into a completely new culture and not have troubles adapting to it all .... [/QUOTE]