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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2044175, member: 1131"] To the OP: If you applied the same criteria to A'ja Wilson's game last night, would you say that she choked in the second half last night after UConn learned to defend her by committee? Wilson's second half was almost as bad as Lou's first half. And in both cases it was mainly because of a swarming defense that the player wasn't accustomed to. By the end of the game (no doubt because they were down by double digits), A'ja was showing frustration in her facial expressions and body language to the point that Dawn benched her with about 4 minutes left (along with Coates and Davis). She did come back after a minute of so in Dawn's penalty box, but that is not good behavior for a player that the team needs to rely on. (SC relies on Wilson far more than UConn relies on Lou.) And Wilson is a junior, while Lou is only a sophomore. I thought Lou's big accomplishment was to make contributions in the rest of her game despite the fact that her shot wasn't falling and the defense was trying really hard to frustrate her. And, as SCGamecock has pointed out, the energy that Gray and Davis devoted to harassing Lou probably cost them quite a bit of offensive efficiency in their own shooting. [/QUOTE]