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Message: [QUOTE="#12in21, post: 4684079, member: 10763"] So that is the bar for Nika at this point, she needs to be the best shooter on the team? Perhaps you haven't noticed but scoring is not the primary criteria the coaches have/will use as to why Nika will start. The only concern related to her scoring is that she forces the defense not to play off her (which she clearly accomplished this past season). She has and will start due to her ability to take seconds off the opponents clock by disrupting their ability to get into their offensive sets, continuously pushing pace to allow us to dictate the flow and rhythm of the game and to position and find her teammates to gives us the best scoring opportunities. If Nika showed up this season with a focus on scoring at the expense of her proven strengths she wouldn't start. This past season she significantly rose her scoring average, drives to the basket, foul shot attempts and % while setting atleast three all time Husky assist records and repeated as BE DPOY. Ask Dawn Staley if the strategy against the Huskies, with Nika at the point should be to play off her! Probably really doesn't matter to the coaches as to what you think but I can guarantee that their bar is not to be able to say "[I]I'm shocked when she misses. I assume that every time she shoots it's going in[/I]". That has been and will continue to be their expectation for both Paige and Azzi. As Geno has said we just need Nika to be Nika while adding the observation that [I]he doesn't believe you can win a championship without a kid like her on the team. [/I] [/QUOTE]

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