All three players fit enormous needs.
With Allie, she provides the team almost assured consistency of hitting wide open shots which has plagued them the last about 5 years. UCONN would have one great shooter, sometimes two, but even then not all the time is your best or 2nd best going to be on. As Geno points out in the article, Allie can “score.” She’s a scorer (I don’t believe she is a one-on-one scorer though but obviously can’t say at this point,) and Geno loves Offense and loves Scoring.
In re to Morgan she is perfect all over the floor because she can be a pg but just as important she compliments Sara amazingly well. Think of a particular lineup, Paige, Azzi, Morgan, Sarah and Jana. You could put Morgan at the high for the high low in which she can either dump the ball inside o Jana, take a 15 footer, or use her pg skills to pass to three amazing outside shooters. On the Defensive End she guards the quicker player while Sarah guards the more interior player.
In regard Sraha Strong, as a freshman, she is the 2nd most important basketball player to this past Final Four team behind Paige because she has the capability of filling in the fundamentals at a very high performance “relied upon scoring inside/out, excellent passing, and rebounding.” Her and Paige make everyone around them much more dangerous at the offensive end. And her potential rebounding and ability to score inside is exactly what they need.
While nothing is assured, generally when you get a #1 recruit, that player’s floor is probably going to show to be a at least a “pretty good” player. But her potential and what she can do for the team warrants consideration for her being the 2nd option to get the ball to under all circumstances. That means in big games she more likely to get huge minutes.
