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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4613379, member: 9844"] She can pick up some things on rebounding, but the stats that most show from the get-go are rebounds and blocked shots, and to a lessor extent steals. Those are things that depend mostly on physical ability. Unfortunately Ayanna's numbers were not bad there, but far below what we expected based on her size, strength, speed and jumping ability. Players don't usually show significant improvement in those stats over their career. Other areas they do often improve, and by quite a bit, and those generally involve decision making, learning what you can and can't do against a higher level of competition, learning your teammates, what is and isn't a foul, and what is and isn't a good shot. Fouls and turnovers frequently decrease, assists go up, scoring per-minute up along with shooting percentages. All of those could improve for Ayanna, but I believe she will never be as good a rebounder or shot blocker as I was expecting based on her obvious physical skills. In rough terms Ayanna came to Uconn with about the same ranking as Ice, and probably Jana too, if she was an american high school student. Now I would have Ayanna behind those two because I think she fell short of those expectations. Ayanna also had a clearer path to minutes last year than this upcoming one. She potentially could be better and play less. Ice and Jana will be looked at first for help at the 5, but both could be used at the 4. Aubrey had to play mostly on the wing due to injuries this year, but next season could play backup to Aaliyah quite a bit. [/QUOTE]

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