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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5342487, member: 12088"] I share much of your optimism, but I have one caveat here. The pull up jumper has long been a staple of Geno’s offense and Paige was an absolute master of it. Dee and Maya too. And as Tim Fudd said in an interview recently, it was a staple of Azzi’s game before her injury, and he’s happy to see it return as a sign of her confidence. But my bugaboo about pull up jumpers is that [B]they’re[/B] [B]not the same as a midrange jumper or an elbow jumper[/B]. Sarah is not known for her pull up jumper even though she has an excellent midrange game. I’d say the same about Aaliyah who had an excellent elbow jumper and drove the lane or the baseline really well. A pull up requires something else, a quick move off the dribble and a sudden stop and jump. It’s really hard to do well and it can be hard on one’s joints. This is mainly the territory of guards not bigs. And for the guards it requires a lot of nerve since it often means getting the shot off among the tall trees. This was Paige’s genius. Azzi has it too, and so does Ash. Kaitlyn didn’t have this move in her arsenal and neither does KK. I’m curious to see if Kayleigh does. And I’m even more curious to see if Blanca has one or can develop one. Having three players on a roster who have a pull up jumper is a lot. Very few teams have even one, mainly because coaches don’t teach it as much as they used to because of so-called analytics. Jordan King on Marquette had a really good one. Jasmine Bascoe on Villanova has one too. On UConn, Azzi and Ash have one, and it remains to be seen if a third will emerge. In my view, it’s the most important part of an offensive scheme, a reliable midrange shot that can be created off the dribble. It’s more important than a three-pointer or a post move. It’s not because UConn more points off them. The value lies in its reliability. It’s the staple of the ‘bucket-getter,’ the player who can be counted to stop an opponent’s run and calm her teammates down. This is what Paige and Geno understand so well. Just watch the Oklahoma game to see the truth of it. [/QUOTE]

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