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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4302909, member: 12088"] I agree about this last bit. Morrow is an awesome talent. Beating DePaul will often mean letting her score 20 and shutting down the rest of the team. This is often the case in victories — you don’t always have to shut down their best player if you can render the rest of the team incapable of winning. I recall the Celtics routinely getting past the Bulls in the playoffs in the early Jordan years in just this way. Michael would score 40 or 50 and the team would lose. I also think you’d be right to say that our front court defense wasn’t up to holding Morrow under 20 or keeping her off the boards. As I recall, during the second game Meg Culmo praised Dorka especially for avoiding fouling her, keeping the arms straight up, challenging a shot instead of always trying to block it, as a good strategy. I think she was absolutely right. Part of Morrow’s game is to get the other team’s front court in foul trouble. She gets a lot more dangerous, and so does the rest of the team, if you have to play her in fear of fouling out. Take that part of her game away and she scores 20 but they lose. And the whole thing is magnified if you have to play her in Chicago and partial refs let her get away with the same fouls they quickly called on Liv and AE. Morrow is awesome, and we should all look forward to some great games against her in the next few years. And when she gets her own D under control so she avoids foul trouble she’ll be even more formidable than she already is. Those games will be marvelous chess matches between Geno and Doug. [/QUOTE]

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