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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4413027, member: 11664"] Geno has planted a seed in Azzi's head that she needs to become an attacker of the basket. She makes her foul shots and has a lot of earlier experience as a PG. Nika has not learned to effectively attack the basket in 2 years except when feeding Paige with assists as a freshman, even though Nika had a history of attacking in Croatia. I don't care if Nika is the PG for 40 mpg if that basically requires that she dribbles the ball upcourt on offense.& play PG defense. However once she gets upcourt, it's most likely that the ball will end up in Azzi's hands because she will indeed become the quarterback whether Azzi's the PG or not. There are vocal leaders and then there's Azzi who will lead with a consistent attack on the basket utilizing all of the team's moving parts. That doesn't mean that Nika won't play a role. it's just that Azzi will probably be the primary director of UConn's 1/2 court attack. That's not coming from me, that's coming from Geno & Azzi during multiple articles & interviews. UConn is not "who's your PG?" because Azzi will most likely be playing the quarterback position instead. One way or another she's been asked to be the one to help UConn manufacture points by directing the attack. She'll need the ball in her hands one way or another whether it's to shoot, pass it off, draw a foul or whatever's needed. That's the only way that she can be more like Paige as Geno has directed. Maybe Azzi will get some tips from Stephen Curry & Paige if she needs some. It's not Azzi's fault or a reason to discriminate against her just b/c she's the best overall player on the team this year. [/QUOTE]

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