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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 4332224, member: 7548"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/uconn/article/UConn-basketball-star-Azzi-Fudd-practice-sessions-17239392.php[/URL] Mühl, last season’s Big East defensive player of the year, is working on the other side of her game by simplifying. “Obviously, we were a different team when Nika was on the floor,” Auriemma said. “Nika has to be better offensively, more consistent offensively. She has to be more of a threat so that people guard her more and there’s less leaving her to go double someone else. She has to be more of a factor, more of a threat, so that’s been her focus this whole postseason, so far: ‘How do I get to the basket more and finish?’ Getting to the basket is not a problem for Nika. Finishing has been. “If Nika was a baseball player, she’d be put out to pasture because she doesn’t hit home runs. She’d be a singles hitter. We don’t need her to make eight 3’s a game. We need her to make five pull-up jump shots after she penetrates. So it’s the non-glamorous things that Nika’s working on.[B] And she’s improved. She’s better right now than she was at the end of the season.”[/B] [/QUOTE]