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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4422008, member: 12088"] I [B]sorta[/B] agree. Yes, the energy budget isn't a bad way to think about the problem. However, Geno is on record on this topic as saying that he doesn't favor having a true pg, and whoever happens to bring the ball up the floor should be capable of initiating the offense. He even gave the example recently of Azzi doing this and said when she does it he's confident that "good things will happen." Not an exact quote. I take him to mean that he likes to approximate a positionless offense, probably because this makes it harder for opposing teams to key on a special player. Lots of teams do this to some extent, but we (and Stanford and Princeton) have made it a central concept in our scheme. Now I also agree that Azzi is probably our best pg in terms of skills and offensive energy. I've even said she may be the best in the country, when I get carried away. But people have objected to this sort of hyperbole. Let's leave it at "she's damn good whenever she has the ball in her hands." But even with this, I like to see Nika bring the ball up and initiate the offense for exactly the reason that you guys mention, that it takes some of the burden of the team off Azzi. And if Nika's offensive capabilities continue progressing in the way I think we got a glimpse of against Kutztown (a pull-up jumper), we all may come to like seeing Nika bringing the ball up the floor. [/QUOTE]