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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4689774, member: 3535"] If healthy, it remains to be seen if the other teams will be good as UCONN. UCONN beat Iowa without Paige Bueckers. Last year South Carolina beat UCONN without Paige [B]and [/B]Azzi and yet UCONN played South Carolina tough while South Carolina steamrolled LSU. In-of-itself this doesn't mean much but looking at this from the perspective that we know LSU strengthened their team a lot - if healthy UCONN is adding potentially two Caitlyn Clark's. -so UCONN strengthened its team by extreme measures too. UCONN added two POY candidates. The opposing teams need to fear UCONN if UCONN is healthy. On paper, LSU is good match -so I wouldn't say they would have fear but the point is UCONN is an extreme juggernaut if healthy. Just want to add that when healthy, Paige was a better player than Clark throughout her career when healthy. Azzi prior to college was better than Clark and then she showed why during the early season matchup of last year she was at least equivalent to Clark. Paige and Azzi playing together improves each of their games so even though to start they aren't as great as Clark but their combination puts them right up with her if they are healthy. Then add in, they are playing with Edwards - an All-American. They have an experienced excellent passing guard (Nika) so Paige and Azzi don’t always need to have the ball like Clark does. UCONN has tremendous defensive support for Paige and Azzi at their positions so they won't have to be chasing the other' team's number 1 scorer around much because of Nika and Aubrey. Adn if healthy, there is another potentially strong scoring option is Ducharme. Combine all this- with the realization that the object of the game is to score the most points - then this is a titanic shift vs what UCONN has had since early of last season. Its “enormous” – not just “good.” If one main super player like Clark can take down that excellent South Carolina team, then what do we think two players very near her level can do with overall stronger player support than what Clark had can do? Can anyone specify the players that are going to stop the combo of Paige and Azzi if they are healthy? Super players add your team exponentially. What could be more exponential then adding not 1 but 2 if they are healthy? [/QUOTE]

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