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Message: [QUOTE="LO TRADER, post: 2067316, member: 7053"] Observations from the Oregon State guy. First time seeing UCONN (and without Kia Nurse): 1. UCONN has to be guarded at the NBA 3-point line (just incredible shooters). You must also fight through screens & don't switch as Gabby & Napheesa will just dump it to the other player 2. UCONN players don't hold the ball, that ball is constantly on the move (very impressive) 3. Without tall UCONN players, rebounding was pretty darn good (great boxing out, and, very quick jumpers) 4. Napheesa? is crazy good. Have to have tall & quick defensive player/players to slow her down to have any chance against UCONN 5. UCONN is just relentless, no give up in any player Now the observed "potential" chinks in the armor that is UCONN 1. USF was able to penetrate on UCONN multiple times. A tall, solid rebounding team could get 2nd shots (assuming the penetrating player got a shot off). I imagine that would not have happened had Kia Nurse been in the rotation 2. I saw many instances where USF beat UCONN down the court after a rebound/turnover 3. Said by many of you on a different thread, that foul trouble could be problematic Having said all of that, I don't see any team beating UCONN [/QUOTE]