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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4393588, member: 12088"] I get this sentiment too. But there's still a question mark in my mind about Lou's ability to play UConn D. Geno said as much at the beginning of the summer, and I think that means he won't play her for 30 mins if she's a defensive liability. In a sense, Nika and Lou are mirror images of each other -- one needs to show Geno she's not a defensive liability, the other needs to show him she's not an offensive liability. I'm pretty confident at least one of them will step up and earn the minutes we all want to see. The interesting case will be if they both show Geno what he needs to see. In that case, we could actually see the 4 guards divide 120 mins (for position 1-3) more or less evenly. That would be the very definition of "everybody eats." There's a place in my heart that really wants to see Nika pull this off, because I love the defensive ferocity she brings. Picture what opponents will have to face, if Nika does her thing, especially in the first 5 mins of the 3rd quarter, and then Aubrey and Ayanna sub in at the 3 and the 4 and give them a completely different and perhaps equally terrifying form of defensive intensity in the second 5 mins. That 3rd quarter is often when opponents are blown off the court. And the whole time, Azzi and Caroline torch them from the perimeter. [/QUOTE]