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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5080345, member: 12088"] You're right about [B]Paige[/B], obviously. The percentages all support it. But I wonder why that is so. Dawn says Paige is a very selective as a shooter and rarely takes bad shots. This is why she often passes or drives instead of hoisting up a 3 pointer. Now, I ask myself, is that really what a, SG is? Much of the ballyhoo about [B]Azzi[/B] coming out of high school was about how perfect her form is and how quickly she can get her shot off on the perimeter. As Geno said on a couple of occasions, the form is always the same and she catches the ball ready to shoot. What I'm getting at is that Geno doesn't want her to catch the ball on the perimeter and weigh her options. He wants her to shoot, and to keep shooting even through slumps. Maybe it's just me, but this is what I have always thought a shooting guard is. And if I'm right, we might expect her percentages will be a little lower than Paige's. And, by the way, this is exactly how [B]Q[/B] was used in high school. Her coach stationed her on the wing for almost every offensive play in catch-and-shoot position. That was her assignment. They ran very few (if any) plays for her other than this. As for [B]Juju[/B], I'm not sure she really is an SG. I mean, granted that she's not a PG, though she could certainly play that position if asked, but it would be a waste of her talents. She gets most of her points mixing it up in the paint and from the free throw line. Plus her shooting percentages are pretty low except for free throws. And this, by the way, seemed to me to be the main weakness of SC last season. Gottlieb didn't want to use Juju as a PG, but didn't have any great alternatives -- certainly not Padilla or Williams, or even Forbes who didn't really come on as a consistent scorer until the second half of the season. I wonder if getting [B]Van Oelhofen [/B]will change that calculus for them this season. She's also more of an SG at heart, even if the shooting percentages do not bear this out. But she's got better PG skills than who Gottlieb could turn to last season. And one last thought concerning [B]Allie[/B]. She was the steadiest ball handler on her team in high school and so could be mistaken for a PG. She has the shooting skills to be understood as a 'shooting' guard. But what she really is, instead of these, is a big kid who can score through contact and who can also shoot the 3 well. In this respect, I think of her as sort of like a slightly smaller Caroline. [/QUOTE]

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