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Message: [QUOTE="Tonyc, post: 4831458, member: 73"] Well we got an idea of what this team is capable of. The freshman shined bright. We are a different team. Coming back from a long layoff will we be rusty? Maybe. I think we come out on fire. We know what we can do because we've done it. Starting the freshman and letting them play like they did in high school showed me they breed confidence in what they do. With that said we still have room for more improvement. We need to rebound rebound and rebound. Early on this season when so many went down with injuries we lacked scoring. We dont now. In fact we have freshman who look to create and take their shot without hesitation. We have the scorers, we have energy, we have defense and we have a defined lineup. Marquette and Creighton coming up both ranked and both very good. I dont expect our freshman to hit 12 shots in a row but I do expect them to play hard and with a purpose. We have been witnessing determination. UConn is now a team that believes. Shade KK and Q are not deferring to Paige and Aaliyah. They are taking it upon themselves to make it happen on both sides of the ball. Take a look at the stats and see, that once we came up with this lineup, our shooting percentage is over 48%. We are a different team. We have been impressive to say the least. We are playing without fear. One of the best things we have is a bunch of kids that can score, and arent afraid to take a shot and when needed we have Paige to take charge. All this talk about lacking height and its true. But we can overcome alot of our lack of height if we rebound as a team because we have so many good shooters/scorers. Opponents can no longer key on Paige because of our balanced scoring attack. We have players who can create their own shot. We have players that can dribble drive and hit pull up jumpers. Overall we are shooting the ball much better which has opened up the middle. Those 2 things work hand in hand. This is a team led by Paige that could win it all. Yeah we lack height, but we have shooters and scorers and most teams depend on their height and lack depth in their height. We are better then advertised and we're beginning to show it. Our first 2 games coming back from break will tell us alot about where we are and a few weeks into the new year will tell us alot about where we're headed. [/QUOTE]

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