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Message: [QUOTE="Inthepaint, post: 4103269, member: 11386"] Catch-22 Nika has shown that the more she plays, the better she shoots and the more she sets an aggressive defensive tone for the squad. But, if she can't get the minutes without making her shots, it's going to be tough to have her out there. I think that once Geno has a couple of games to assess the talent, he will want Nika out on the floor to jazz up the intensity and make things miserable for the other folks. The better the other team's offense is, the more critical it will be to keep them from getting too comfortable. He's already pretty grumpy about the lack of intensity and focus. Although defensive pressure doesn't always show up in the stats (steals, points off turnovers) it certainly isn't intangible. I love the way Nika approaches the game. To quote something I heard from one of the ESPN analysts last year : "She's a pest". There was play from a the 1995 regular season game against Tennessee. Jennifer Rizzoti went after a ball headed out of bounds and wound up sliding under a bench. When her teammates came over to help her out and up, Jennifer kind of waved them off impatiently as if to say "Don't worry about me, let's play!" If you aren't actually seeing it as it happens, that will never appear anywhere. But the effect it had on everybody else was TANGIBLE. Before I get jumped on, no, I'm not comparing Nika to Jennifer. I am saying that Nika somehow seems to get everybody else on the warpath. Which makes her "3"s sting even more when they start to go in. [/QUOTE]

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