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[QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4928683, member: 12088"]
You could see, watching the Arizona game, how much Fair loves her ball skills, and they are damn impressive. It has to be some sort of ball denial defense, and this will only be partially successful. Nika is not quick enough to keep up. KK is, but she is foul prone. We definitely don’t want to put her on the foul line. The goal should be to keep her under 20.

For me the important question in that game was about Fair’s defense. She’s at her best when she marks one of the guards at the top of the key. She has quick hands and can get steals and she knows how to jump passing lanes. But in their zone she ends up on the wing near the baseline. Coach Jack is trying to hide her out there, and we have to exploit that. If Ash makes 3s over her, Coach Jack will have to move her to the top of the zone, and then Paige will be able to shoot over her at will.

Jack won’t want to play their bigs for long because they can’t keep up with someone like Aaliyah. She’ll want to run a small lineup and hope to outrun us. But this is also the game Geno would prefer.
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