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Message: [QUOTE="southofnorth, post: 3318626, member: 9132"] No doubt Faris was a good player. I never said she wasn't. I will accept that Faris was a good passer. I was wrong to say she wasn't. But you should check out the season stats for her years at UConn (though 2012-13's full season stats PDF is a dead link; so going through that year would be tedious). A bio page is basically highlights of each season. Of course it doesn't list her turnovers any more than it lists her fouls or missed shots. He junior year was by far her best with a 2.11 A:TO (2012-13's big east stats have her listed with 66a/37to or about 1.78 A:TO), but even Saniya Chong managed a 3.33 A:TO (140a/42to) ratio her senior year. If we're purely going off of number of assists as a measure of how great a passer was, then I guess KLS wasn't very good because she only had 132 her senior (although she did miss a few games/ only played in 34 games and averaged about 3.88 assists per game, so that number probably could have been closer to 150 in the end). AGAIN, I am merely saying that being an amazing passer and scorer have NOT historically been required for starters or even players getting major minutes in big games. Kelly Faris and Kalana Greene were both great players because they did what they were asked to do: defend, rebound, and play team basketball. I would happily take either one (or both) on any team I'm setting up because I'd know I'm getting hard work and effort from them every minute they're on the floor. I think Coombs could have been a player like that if she was given more opportunities (and also if she didn't have to deal with the deep vein thrombosis essentially robbing her of time to improve her game and conditioning). In big games last year she was either somewhat neutral (didn't help the team based on any stats, but also didn't necessarily hurt them either). If we disagree, I can accept that, but I don't think she'd have been a detriment to this team in big games. [/QUOTE]

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