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Message: [QUOTE="KY Card Fan, post: 4458921, member: 9787"] As a Louisville fan, I hope that you and JellyBean are correct. Both of you are a little more optimistic than I am. I trust Walz, and expect improvement, but his good teams have generally been really good defensively and this team so far is not. And they need to find reliable second and third scorers behind Hailey Van Lith. Cochran usually fills one of those roles but she is an undersized 5. So far Dixon and Williams haven't shown me that they are up to the task of eating up major minutes against top competition. Walz struck gold last season in the transfer portal. Jury is still out on that this season. My guess is that the addition of Morgan Jones had a lot to do with Verhulst's departure. Most of us fans had Verhulst penciled in as a starter. She was one of the few three-point shooters on the roster. Walz is giving Merissah Russell minutes and she should be above-average from deep although she was 1-8 from 3 against MTSU. This team's ultimate success may rest on freshmen - Nyla Harris and Zyanna Walker. Walker was targeted for a redshirt but Walz called on her in the second half against MTSU. They didn't have a game jersey for her so she wore a "blood" jersey without a name - ironically it was 21 which was Engstler's number last season. [/QUOTE]