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[QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 2676933, member: 4946"]
Personally, I always felt it was for UConn's benefit *and* Azura's benefit.  When she played at Duke, I was always happy to see her settle for outside shots rather than go down low.  She's not going to play wing (I'm defining wing as (2 or 3) in the pros.  She's going to play 4.  I think she's more likely to play 5 than 3.  How in the world is she going to stay in front of WNBA 3s?  That was always an issue with Delle Donne but you put up with it and hide her on D because she's so amazing on offense.  But Stevens is nowhere near a Delle Donne on offense.

I get what you're saying, though.  She would have had to play center for UConn and maybe she didn't relish a year of banging in the post.  But I think she'll be doing more of that than shooting 3s in the pros.  She shot 27% from 3 in her college career.  Pro teams aren't going to put up with her shooting very many 3s unless she can improve that significantly.

This all sounds really negative.  I think she has great potential, and there's a good chance she ends up on my team (the Sky).  I just think her potential is mostly as a 4 who has an accurate shot out to 18 ft. or so.  There's a big market for that.  If she thinks she's a Delle Donne/Durant/Nowitzki, etc., I think she may be in for a bad time.
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