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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5057404, member: 12088"] Here's a longer clip from the second game against Charlotte Catholic and Blanca Thomas. It's interesting to see Sarah matched up against a taller player. Against Blanca she gives up about 3 inches and it's clear Sarah can't stop Blanca in the low post without a little help... and she gets none. It's even more clear that Blanca can't stop Sarah in the low post even with help. At one point Sarah holds off Blanca with one hand and catches a high lob with the other then scores. At another point Sarah corrals a loose ball behind her with one hand and bounces it between her legs to the other hand and then goes up for an easy score. That's how strong and clever her hands are. At yet another point, Blanca has screened Sarah off to free a guard for an outside shot and Sarah blocks it over Blanca's shoulder. My point is Sarah knows how to play against taller competition. Now, I don't think Blanca is going to be a great post player this season, but she may become a pretty good one, sort of like Kennedy Brown was at Duke. She may make a formidable pair playing next to Alyssa Utsby or Ciera Toomey at UNC. Kate Koval looks like a better prospect at ND, but I digress. It's a similar situation in the first game against Joyce Edwards. Sarah gives up at least an inch to Joyce, who is a classic power forward with quick strong moves in the low post and a decent midrange game. Interestingly, they generally weren't matched up against each other, in part because so much of Sarah's offensive game takes place at the top of the key where she runs the offense from. Joyce doesn't look like she could defend Sarah out there, which leaves a smaller guard on her and also means she is free to shoot 3s unimpeded. I expect this is going to be a feature of Sarah's game at UConn, too. Geno is likely to place her at the top of the key just as he did with Liv, only Sarah is a much more serious offensive threat from there. This leaves opponents with a hard choice -- either put a big on her out there and leave Ice or Jana with single coverage, or put a guard on her and she'll pick them apart with 3s and passes. Now picture the offense with Sarah at the top and Paige and Azzi (or Ash and Allie and Caroline and Q and Morgan) on either wing and things begin to look a bit scary. [MEDIA=youtube]oR2zH0DPPFM[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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