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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5168678, member: 12088"] Jana is not merely being prepared for April. She’s also being prepared for next April, and the April after that. She will not be on any AA list this April. But she may be the following April or the one after that. Right now we’ve mainly seen the low post skills that Geno and CD have been working on with her, and that she undoubtedly practices against Ice. But I suspect this is just the tip of the pyramid with Jana. As Geno always says, kids need to remember what they were good at before they came to UConn because that’s why there were recruited. Jana also had perimeter skills and an elbow jumper in high school and could score off the bounce. As someone already pointed out, in high school she wasn’t able to receive many passes into the low post because the guards on her team were not capable of passing to her there. More often than not, she had to come out to the elbow to get the ball and initiate her offense from there. Most of her low post scoring that wasn’t the result of a drive from the elbow in high school came from offensive rebounds. I don’t know if we’ll see much of that Jana this season, though she has already tried a few elbow drives in the last couple games. But once Jana gets her complete range of skills going — whenever that happens — I suspect she will be formidable. [/QUOTE]