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[QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5321398, member: 12088"]
I may be preoccupied with this question of team speed. Last season, UConn was clearly the speediest team taken as a whole. Cori even mentioned this in a courtside interview during the game. But there were quicker players out there who could have given us fits. Milaysia is a good example. No one on UConn -- not even KK -- could really keep up with her. But by herself, she wasn't enough to lift up SC. Hannah Hidalgo is another example. She can be a difference maker if she has a solid team around her.

An early test of our ability to deal with such speedsters may come with Villanova and Jasmine Bascoe. She was a handful in last season's games. I'm not expecting Villanova to pull an upset this season, but the way KK Kayleigh and Ash handle Bascoe may be a good indicator of what's to come. Over the last few years, speedy guards have been our undoing as much as super-bigs. Remember Aari MacDonald?

In any event, if the team as a whole is playing crisply and with good ferocity, one speedster is not likely to be our undoing.
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