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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 4201817, member: 7171"] The beauty of the fourth quarter against Marquette was that each player was the best version of herself. Azzi and Dorka, obviously. Evina could not have played better. Christyn was solid. Nika was by design not a part of the half court offense in the fourth quarter. She spent much of it in the left corner while the offense was being run on the right side. We had three hot hands doing their thing and they should have been the ones shooting. I think the key play of the fourth quarter was when Nika came up with a loose ball, pushed it up court and hit Azzi for an open three. That made it 60-52. Backbreaker. On defense, UConn played man to man the entire fourth except for a couple of zones early. Nika was covering McLaughlin, number 12. She is their second leading scorer. The team has 81 threes for the season, and she has 60 of them. If Marquette was going to come back, she would need to be involved. UConn normally switches a lot and helps out when it goes inside, but Nika was clearly told to do neither, and to stay with her the whole time. She did, and McLaughlin didn`t come close to getting a shot off. So, everybody contributed in their own way. [/QUOTE]