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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4385642, member: 12088"] That’s a fair point about Clark. And she does bring the ball up the court a lot. And she gets a lot of assists. That is often the profile of a pg. My only reasons for thinking otherwise are that Iowa plays a positionless offense except for Czinano and Clark (like Paige freshman year) often plays off the ball after bringing it up the court. Was Paige a pg two years ago? Yes, sort of, rather like Clark. So, you and [USER=11664]@sun[/USER] definitely have a point. But let me make this observation about a difference between Azzi and Clark, and a reason to want to keep Azzi off the ball. So far, Azzi has mainly looked to get her 3pt shot off a pass. She is deadly at setting her feet in anticipation of the pass and has a lightning quick release. Clark can do this too. But in addition Clark seems a little better at shooting the 3 off the dribble. Some of her 3s like this are practically circus shots, definitely highlight reel stuff. I’m sure Azzi can make 3s off the dribble. But this isn’t how we’ve used her so far and I worry her accuracy will suffer if we put her in this position. It seems to me that at pg she’ll have to shoot more off the dribble. This isn’t a disaster, obviously, since Paige off the dribble is the deadliest player in the land even if she’s just shooting 2s. I’d love to see Azzi fill that role, and I’m absolutely confident she can. I’d guess Azzi as pg will do exactly this, shoot lots of 2s, drive the lane, and hit Caroline and Lou on the perimeter or hit the bigs in the paint. I’ve said before that I think she’d be an elite pg if we decide to play her there, maybe the best in the land without Paige playing. But she’s already arguably the best sg in the land and I hate to lose that. This is part of my frustration with Nika’s role on the team. She only needs to be a so-so pg to unleash Azzi Caroline Lou on the perimeter. But she’s not that yet because of the limitations on her offense. And this only matters because of my, perhaps irrational, desire to protect Azzi from injury by not putting the added burden of playing pg on her. She’s likely to average 35 mins/g this year and it worries me, just as many of us worried about Paige’s minutes both years. But I agree, [USER=11664]@sun[/USER] has a point about Clark and you’re right for drawing my attention to it. [/QUOTE]

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