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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4373357, member: 12088"] I disagree… and agree. Aubrey might be able to occupy the 3 for brief stretches, but not as a perimeter shooter. Ayanna has showed some perimeter shooting ability (which may or may not translate into the college level) but is not as quick as we all remember Aubrey to have been and hope she can be again. Both will probably be effective on D, but Aubrey’s quickness will be more useful than Ayanna’s strength at the 3. My view is that the two of them can give us a few minutes a game at the 3. But if we need more than that from them, it means we are probably in big trouble with injuries. When we had to play Aaliyah at the 3 it was not effective. We became too slow. We only managed to beat UCLA because of Evina’s heroics, but that was a really close call. This is precisely why I’ve been saying that with 4 guards, we need at least 20 mins/g from Nika, no matter what the state of her offense may be. The only way around this is if Lou suddenly develops defensive skills she has yet to have had an occasion to show the world. Two big IFs — one of them has to break our way or some combination of compromises involving both Nika and Lou. [/QUOTE]