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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2267359, member: 5798"] There are still some posters that are concerned if Dangerfield will make a "significant" sophomore leap this year. Maybe this will help. This is an excerpt from an article by Jim Fuller on Monday (July 17) about Dangerfield - [B]UConn’s Crystal Dangerfield will called on to be one of the leaders for the U.S. team at the FIBA U19 World Cup.[/B] "The pursuit of another gold medal while representing her country is enough to get Crystal Dangerfield fired up for the upcoming FIBA U19 World Cup. However, the event which begins Saturday in Italy, also provides the rising sophomore a bit of a dress rehearsal of some of the things she may be asked to do in her second season at UConn. With a season under her belt, [B]Dangerfield is drawing positive reviews for the confidence she displayed during pickup games with her teammates, [I][COLOR=#ff0000]giving every indication that lessons were learned during her inconsistent freshman season.[/COLOR][/I] [/B] Dangerfield’s leadership role with the Huskies is still to be determined, but there is no question that she will be asked to point the way for the U19 team as the U.S. goes after its seventh straight gold medal. Dangerfield is the only member of the squad who played on the gold-medal winning U19 squad in 2015. With a highly-touted freshman class featuring national high school player of the year [B]Megan Walker[/B], guard [B]Mikayla Coombs[/B] and sweet-shooting wing players [B]Andra Espinoza-Hunter [/B]and[B] Lexi Gordon[/B] as well as post players [B]Batouly Camara [/B]and[B] Azura’ Stevens[/B] being eligible, [B]it’s quite possible the Huskies will press and trap more than they have in recent seasons.[/B] That would be just fine with Dangerfield. “I think the team that we have here this year, I feel like we can really run teams,” Dangerfield said.[B] “We can have a whole five to come in (off the bench)[/B] if necessary, so I think working hard during these summer sessions is helpful. Sometimes we don’t like it but we need it." I wonder if Geno would consider an experiment with running [B]a full court press[/B] featuring 5 in, 5 out every 3 minutes of the first quarter during the 2 exhibition games, to see how effective it would be. I'd be interested in seeing it. [/QUOTE]

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