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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4737694, member: 9844"] The entire team was affected by injuries causing us to need to conserve energy for key players and for those same players to stay out of foul trouble. In particular Nika and Aubrey, they are both players that in a role of 20 minutes a game can be aggressive going for steals but when they are needed for over 30 minutes a game can't be. KK and Ashlynn both seem like new players that will do well on that statistic, and on the other side of the ball the offense should have fewer turnovers as well. Nika is a little bit high risk/high reward with her passes and last year she did very well balancing those tradeoffs, but this year she can be slightly more conservative in her decision making with Paige and Azzi on the court much more. Both of those players are low turnover players and Paige can share some of the playmaking role with Nika. Nika won't have to make things happen as much with difficult passes when there are so many inside and outside threats and two great players that can create their own shot. For those reasons I think both numbers will improve, our steals will go up from more aggressive pressing defenses, not having to conserve energy, and not being so worried about foul trouble. At the same time the steals against us should go down from Nika being able to scale down the difficult passes and way more playing time from two relatively low turnover players in Paige and Azzi. [/QUOTE]