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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 5341298, member: 3834"] I believe Heckel came to UConn (even though, as you said, she was likely to be the starting PG) because she was disgusted with the all out game plan to “get the ball to JuJu”. It was [B]very [/B]clear that Gottlieb was either more focused on getting shots for JuJu or (at the very least) was not coaching JuJu to make the right basketball play over constantly trying to score herself. Heckel strikes me as a basketball purist who would want to play in an offense where the ball moved to the best shot rather than constantly having to watch one player dominate the ball with no pushback from the coach. It will be interesting to see how Gottlieb coaches when JuJu comes back and plays with [B]two[/B] other #1s as well as a more experienced Kennedy Smith. I’m guessing either JuJu’s touches go way down or there will be one or two #1 ranked players in the portal! However it goes, and whatever Heckel’s reasons were, it’s pretty clear we’ve come out pretty well as a result of her choice! I was one that questioned Geno’s taking her in the first place but it’s pretty clear I was waaay wrong! I think she’s going to be a big pick up for us. [/QUOTE]