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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4569245, member: 12088"] It may be a mistake to look for another Atlas to put the team on her shoulders the way Paige did. Nika runs a different sort of ship. It will be a team effort. I agree and disagree on this. If we compare the second half of each season, it looks like a wash to me. Dorka and Liv were a potent pair and it really hurt to lose one of them before the final four. Evina and Christyn brought a heady play we sometimes lack this year. They could have scoring dry spells, but Evina especially was a natural leader. Nika has taken over much of this responsibility from Momma E, thank goodness. I’ve watched a lot of last years game again in the last week and it was a Shakespearean tragedy then, too. The Georgia Tech game was a catastrophe. The UCLA game was a near miss to an inferior team. The Oregon game was a low point. But they pulled themselves together as the injury storm eased up and thumped Tennessee decisively, led by Azzi Evina and Nika, and Liv had a huge game, and Aaliyah had her first really good game that day. It was followed immediately by a loss to Villanova who played their best game of the year. From that point on, they played UConn bball, and when Paige returned it was like they turned on the afterburners all the way to the NC game. I hope we can do as well this year. [/QUOTE]