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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4581707, member: 12088"] I agree. You can’t press Caitlin. Once she has the ball, there’s really no point. And Iowa has good ball handlers throughout the starting lineup. The thing about players like Paige or Caitlin or Azzi is that they have great handles, but they’re also not afraid to run with you, and they don’t run into corners. Plus their court vision is too good. Weaker ball handlers look down at their dribble and lose their way. It’s also too easy to get burned trying to stay next to them running backwards. Try to run sideways alongside them and they’ll draw the foul whenever they feel like it. I don’t think Nika’s skills are quite at that level. Watch the Texas game and you can see why Geno preferred to have Azzi face their press. It was useless against her, while Nika would get troubled needlessly by it. In one interview, Geno observed that Azzi doesn’t start her dribble without knowing what she’s going to do, and she never picks it up without a purpose. [/QUOTE]