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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 4267255, member: 7171"] The catalyst. Or, the "Croatian Sensation". A rebound and putback last night, how about that! Something new from her. She was fouled on the shot also, wasn`t called...... A big steal and perfect feed to Christyn for a pivotal breakaway layup, but no credit for an assist in the scorebook. I`m not sure what the technical requirements are - scorekeeper discretion? too many dribbles after the pass was received? - but it effectively was one. And she is always "in the mix" denying passes and fighting for loose balls, and those things make a difference - instead of an opponent controlling a rebound, for example, the ball tips off her hand and we regain or retain possession. Stanford turned it over 20 times against Texas and 18 times against Maryland. Jones has a total of 10 for those two games, and Lexie Hull 6. 14 team turnovers against Kansas, and even 16 against Montana State. So they can be turned over. We will probably be going small quite a bit, with only either Olivia or Aaliyah on the floor. Part because we have to with Dorka out and to protect our bigs against foul trouble, and part because that approach should match up ok against Stanford. So I definitely see a role for Nika on Friday night. Possibly for stretches hounding Jones or Lexie Hull. An advantage of playing her at the beginning or middle of a quarter (like 2 and 4) is that if her aggressiveness leads to a non-shooting foul, there will be no foul shots taken. [/QUOTE]

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