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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5300470, member: 12088"] This seems sort of right to me, but not entirely fair. As a freshman, Caitlin constantly hunted fouls on drives. But she had a much fuller game than that, and Lisa Bluder told her to cut out the antics where she ends up on the floor gesturing at the officials after every drive. Lots of kids, including Paige, would end up on the floor after a drive. Latson is another one. I used to joke that if you held practices on outdoor courts that behavior would end. The thing is, Caitlin has the full range of skills Paige has and can drive to the rim or pull up in the midrange just as well. What you didn’t see from either of them in college was the sort of play Caitlin tried against Sheldon the other day, to back the defender down from the top of the key, bucking her shoulder into Jacy’s chest repeatedly. That wasn’t Caitlin’s game at Iowa. Plus it would probably draw a whistle right away. But in the W this has become a staple in her arsenal. What I’m getting at is that the W has changed Caitlin’s game a bit. Lots of the old virtues are still there. But the roughhouse style is also there. I doubt we’ll see the same thing from Paige. She’ll change the W before she lets it change her. And either the refs and the league will recognize what she’s doing and go along, or they won’t. [/QUOTE]