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[QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4841942, member: 1673"]
You are correct.  It was Edwards with a 6’5” wing span.  I interchanged them as UConn’s two stars.  It nagged at me a little later, after the edit window, that I had messed up.  I know, poor excuse.

Her steals is accurate though, I double checked.  Actually, as a senior she averaged 5.4 steals per game.  Impressive!

In reference to [USER=26]@EricLA[/USER]  post I would add that in addition to different scoring roles, so do their other roles differ.  Bueckers is not the main PG (notice who brings up the ball the most on entry passes).  She likely is not going to have as many assists as one of her own teammates, so of course she is not going to have as many as PGs who are the main facilitators of their teams.

I recall Taurasi not having impressive rebounding statistics, but one day Auriemma challenged her to get ten in a game and she got eleven.  Bueckers has shown she can box out, out quick and jump higher than opposing posts for rebounds.  If that was a point of emphasis for her in this system she could do it, but she is also very good at on ball defense and superb in defending passing lanes.  Those have been the points of emphasis for her which will draw her away from rebounding duties.
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