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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5280402, member: 12088"] I've been thinking about this same thing and largely agree. But I'm wondering about what you say about relative competition for minutes. I have a few of caveats: [LIST] [*]Kennedy Smith is not a guard. This season, she played the 3 next to Rayah and Kiki. My suspicion is she'll end up as a smallish 4 next to Iwuchukwu next season because of her physicality, unless some other bigs show up from the portal. [*]Other than Londynn Jones and Malia Samuels, USC has no PG candidates, and that's a competition Kalyeigh would very likely win. [*]Kara Dunn might have a better shot as SG, though her perimeter skills are no better than Kayleigh's. [*]Jazzy is also not a PG. Maybe she'd count as an SG, but at 6'1" I imagine she'll shade over into a wing, especially given her scoring abilities in the paint. In other words, she will not be a direct competitor for minutes with Kayleigh. [/LIST] All in all, it looks like Kayleigh would have an inside track to better minutes at USC next season over last season. By contrast, at UConn, [LIST] [*]Kayleigh would have direct competition for minutes from KK, Kelis, one of whom is a settled veteran in the system whose talents largely overlap with hers. [*]At SG, Azzi and Ash will be a no-win prospect for her, given their perimeter shooting skills. [*]And there's no room for her whatsoever at the 3 what with Blanca, Caroline, Allie and Morgan. [*]And in a small lineup, though she could well get minutes at positions other than as a PG, she'll still likely enter the game in that capacity after KK, Ash, Azzi and Blanca. She could out-compete her way up that depth chart, but this will be challenging. [/LIST] This all leads me to conclude that playing time wouldn't be a motivation for her to choose UConn. And by extension, it likely isn't the problem she had with USC's locker room. There could have been other kinds of problems. If I were her, I wouldn't expect to get more minutes under Geno next season than she got at USC last season. If she thinks long term, then UConn looks like a very good option for her. But in the short term, it's a harder calculus to make work... unless there was some other toxic problem she wants to get away from. [/QUOTE]

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