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Message: [QUOTE="#12in21, post: 4896689, member: 10763"] Assists also contribute to [I]reliable and efficient production. [/I]To get an assist somebody had to score. Nika has been unparalleled as an upperclassman in amassing assists. She holds the records for most assists in a game and a season and will finish her career at a minimum in the top five in career assists (with a good chance to finish first on that list) and will be the only Husky to ever have two 200 plus assist seasons. She has had more double digit assist games (by a large margin) and is first in assists/game among all Huskies. Those assists tallied 2 or 3 points each to her teammates scoring totals. In Nika's case, her assists weren't just gravy on top of her points scored they were her main course. She has been dominant in that offensive contribution to her teams efforts. This season, would you really rather she took a few more shots rather than feed an extremely efficient scoring Paige or Aaliyah? As an upperclasswoman she raised her point/game by 2.5 and this season raised her shooting% to 48% and 3pt% to 40%. Between her assist rate and ability to hit open shots she is not being left unguarded which has been an argument made in the past. I would argue that given the unprecedented (in UConn wcbb history) impact Nika has made in amassing assists, to measure her offensive production simply in terms of points scored is not a realistic assessment of her [I]reliable and efficient production.[/I] [/QUOTE]