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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 3770014, member: 6911"] Nope, she can't "carry this team." Not to a NC. The only player I've ever seen put an entire team on her shoulders and carry them to a NC was Diana Taurasi. Her senior year, Diana took a group of decent/good players to a NC. But no one else could do that. Breanna Stewart was the superstar who made the difference for UConn four times in a row. But she had a lot of help. Her supporting class was full of professionals. Maya had Tina, but she only won the NC twice. Sabrina Ionescu, a Paige look-alike, or "play-alike", also had a very strong supporting cast. I think Paige could lead us to a NC. But to get there, even to get to the FF, will require a total team effort. Edwards will need to play the bulk of minutes at PF/post, because she has the talent to be an AA- this year. A combination of the wonderfully gifted and supremely aggressive Mir McLean and Aubrey Griffin will need to excel the rest of the way. And somehow, Evina and Anna will need to combine with Paige to rain threes on the opposition consistently. If we're relying on ONO, the other teams will collapse back in the paint, and we'll be thwarted. We need to develop into a classic Coach Geno team that is capable of taking a third of its shots from outside the arc- and make them consistently. That capability was disturbingly absent in the first game. All of that will have to come together. We can't expect Paige to be Diana. In her freshman year, Diana played her worst game of her career in the semifinal game against Notre Dame- shooting 1 for 15. But we can hope that Paige combines with Aaliya, Mir, Aubrey, Anna and ONO to create The Team that will get us there. [/QUOTE]

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