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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4373596, member: 9844"] I think that is a pretty realistic assessment. No savior, and her prospects for playing time beyond this year would be bleak. In a way she might be like a one year rental or insurance policy. That is very hard to recruit for. Imagine trying to recruit a player for that role on very short notice, being honest with her that she might not have a very big role this year, and may want to transfer after this year, and by the way you only have a few days to decide. Having said that I think Geno could recruit an insurance policy and be honest with the expected role this year and in the future. Even if we are healthy at guard, I think a 5th player will get some minutes at guard, because a rotation of 4 players for 3 positions is so hard to manage. That could be Ines or another last second recruit, or it could be a more talented player playing out of position like Aubrey or Ayanna. That might be the real strategic tradeoff, a talented PF vs. a more mediocre natural guard. If I was completely confident in Aubrey or Ayanna at guard I wouldn't be that worried, but since I'm not quite there yet (but could be) for me an emergency is an injury to any one of the four guards. If say Aubrey proves effective in that role, then an emergency might be injuries to two guards at the same time. I want to see Aubrey or Ayanna succeed in that role regardless of if we get guard help or not, and each day that passes decreases the probability of pulling a rabbit out of the hat. [/QUOTE]

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