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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5037906, member: 12088"] I'm totally with you on this one. The most apparent case was in the 2022-23 regular season when we played 6 and almost beat SC. It was a one possession game in the final minute. And I won't even go into the absurd missed call on that inbounds play that should have given UConn the ball. The more important fact is that we shot 52% and held them to 39%. They won the rebounding battle by 12, though mostly on o-boards and putbacks. And even with that they only squeaked past us. That was a totally winnable game, and with just a healthy Azzi, I believe we'd have won going away. You don't even have to dream of having another big to match up better. Just Azzi would do it. And if Paige had been on the floor, too, I think it wouldn't even have been a close game. Paige Azzi Nika and Lou would have torched them. [And an aside: this season, with healthy veterans Paige Azzi Caroline Aubrey Ash KK Ice Kaitlyn and a couple of the new kids, I think we win the rematch. It might even be a statement game. They'll still be bigger, but that won't be enough.] I'm less confident about the NC game the year before. That one we had Paige and Azzi, but lacked Dorka -- and Azzi and Liv had the flu -- but whatever. The point is that you can't only have bigs, and which I think you'd agree with, a team also needs to have a balanced back court with quickness and scoring punch. [/QUOTE]