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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3098003, member: 1131"] Actually, I believe that Dillard had either 2 or 4 points after the first quarter. She didn't start scoring until UConn changed its defense. The initial defense of trapping near mid-court seemed to be aimed at taking Dillard out of the game, and it did that. Unfortunately, in the second quarter after Buffalo got too many offensive rebounds and players started getting into foul trouble, that defensive approach had to be ended. You are correct that in another year, Kia or Gabby or Moriah would have just face-guarded Dillard and taken her out of the game that way, without the need to distort the rest of the defense. As Geno has said from the beginning of the year, that is a missing dimension on this year's team. But as Kara Lawson noted during the broadcast, this should be a better-shooting offensive team, especially from distance, than last year's. Gabby was hardly better at jump shooting than Mikayla, whereas every single one of this year's starters is capable of hitting shots from anywhere. However, if they don't do that, then this team is vulnerable. That is not news. [/QUOTE]