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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 4380266, member: 5823"] Gabby Williams was an absolutely fabulous perimeter defender. The 2015-16 started out with three of the best perimeter defender to ever occupy a backcourt in Kia, Moriah and Gabby as the starting 1,2,3 for UCONN. Go back and watch them destroy Ohio State on the road in the opening game of the season and holding Kelsey Mitchell to 8 points. I believe Mitchell led the nation in scoring that seasonm. As I siad what prevented Gabby from being utilized as a perimeter defender was the un planned departures of first Morgan Tuck followed by Natalie Butler followed by Azura Stevens. This basically relegated Gabby to being a post player. Positionless basketball is an often misunderstood concept even more so when it applies to the defensive side of the ball. What enables switching are mobile bigs and players of similar size and mobility. Stewie and Morgan Tuck were two of the most mobile bigs that God has ever created. When they left UCONN their minutes were replaced by Saniya, Gabby, KLS, Napheesa Collier and Natalie Butler and Crystal Dangerfield. Among this group of players only Gabby and Kia could effectively execute a perimeter switching because for that scheme to work you want the offensive player to switch on to an equal or better defender and Gabby and Kia had no equals as far as perimeter defender. This is the reason Geno rarely relied on switching schemes with those teams. Dolson threw a few errant pass in that FF game one of which ended in a Diggins steal and layup, but she must be forgiven as she was playing with an injury and had 7 turnovers. She was magnificent otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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