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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 2389679, member: 7874"] Freshman Lexi Gordon looking to be pace-maker [URL='https://www.sny.tv/uconn/news/freshman-lexi-gordon-looking-to-be-pace-maker/259829978']Freshman Lexi Gordon looking to be pace-maker[/URL] The adjustment to college is a work in progress for the 6-foot wing. If her story sounds familiar, it is. Many freshmen here have told it over the last 33 seasons. "When I got here, I learned quickly what was playing hard in my mind was a lot different than what playing hard in Coach's mind was," Gordon said Thursday following UConn's practice at the Werth Family Champions Center. "I've had to push myself to a different limit. I'm always trying to keep up and I want to be the best competitor that I can be." Understatement of the year: "No one's said that playing for the Huskies and coach Geno Auriemma is easy." "He explained something about a screen on defense and I jumped the wrong way and he yelled at me," Gordon said. "It was just a bad, bad moment. But the next time I did it right. You can't mess up twice in a row. You listen to him, take what he says, and go out and perform." "Lexi's a really, really smart kid and very instinctive," Auriemma said. "She knows how to play. She makes shots. She has all that, but she can't keep up right now. That's going to be an issue until she can play at this pace. Or we'll have to slow down just for her and we're not going to do that." [/QUOTE]