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Message: [QUOTE="Sluconn Husky, post: 2244022, member: 5089"] Detailed Jacobs piece on Azura Stevens with the Google link to bypass the Courant's wall: [I]"When she started with us, her first week or two of practice, we kept talking about, man, we've got to get Z to play at a different pace," Auriemma said. "We've got to get her to play at our pace. Every once in a while we could see it. For a week or so, you'd say, 'Wow!' She dominated all of our practices. There's a way she does it. "It's not like Breanna Stewart did it. We've been fortunate to have both, but she's different than Stewy. She's got a different look to her the way she plays. The players tell me in pickup games, she doesn't like getting beat up. So they beat her up every day. Then she turns it on against them. I'm excited for her. I'm excited for us. We had a great last year, and now you add somebody like that to the mix, we have a chance to do some really special things." ... Stevens said UConn's practices were tough in the beginning. It's not that they got easier, but more that she adjusted to the regimen. "The main thing is the pace which I play has changed a lot," Stevens said. "Playing for UConn, you play at a different pace than pretty much every other program in the country. And working on things I'm not necessarily as comfortable with, dribbling, solidifying more of my back to the basket moves and having that kind of dominance." .... "I play inside. I play outside. It depends on the matchup. If I have a smaller girl, obviously, I'm going to post her up. Most girls my size, I try to bring them outside the three-point line and just go around them. Use my quickness in that type of way. "It honestly doesn't matter, although I've grown to like inside a little bit more here. I'm 6-6. I don't want to camp out at the three-point line. The highest percentage shot is the layup. But I always try to mix it up."[/I] [URL]https://www.google.com/#q=azura+stevens+uconn&tbs=qdr:w[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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