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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4111757, member: 1131"] As I've said in other threads, these disadvantages (while very real) are almost entirely attributable to one person: Aliyah Boston. She played a supreme game on Monday, but SC's other post players did not distinguish themselves any more than UConn's post players. You can see that by looking at their stats. Obviously that suggests an avenue for planning UConn's strategy for the January game. It should be possible to contain one player, no matter how talented she is. Past UConn teams have been able to get wins against teams that had Brittney Griner, Sylvia Fowles, and A'ja Wilson, even though UConn had no single player (and sometimes no combination of forwards) who had comparable size or individual talent. Is Boston already better than Griner or Fowles? I doubt that. Geno's normal strategy against dominant post players is a combination of preventing them from posting up close to the basket, and preventing entry passes to them. Of course, the defense also has to box out the player to prevent her from getting a huge number of offensive rebounds -- and that is mainly what was not occurring in Monday's game. Those issues should be fixable with sufficient practice time. Of equal importance is getting offense from UConn forwards, including 15-footers. That also wasn't happening at an adequate percentage on Monday. That may be harder to fix. [/QUOTE]