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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5290912, member: 12088"] This looks like fun. But if the purpose is to make a case for a particular pts/game number it might be more useful to look at last year’s total pts/game for the team, and maybe that of a few other years. Summing our expectations for individuals out of context is likely to be misleading. In 24-25, the team averaged 81.7 points. I’d be surprised to see an average much higher than that next season, and it may even turn out to be a little lower. After all, we just lost the most prolific scorer in UConn history (yup, I went there) to the WNBA. But who knows? Maybe Sarah will up her scoring a little this season, and maybe Serah will do the same in a new system, and Azzi may have the career season we’ve all been hoping for. And maybe Kayleigh’s energy added to KK’s will juice the backcourt just a little bit. That’s a lot of ‘maybes.’ But I have faith. If I look at UConn teams that scored in the high 80s or even closer to 90 pts/game I see that they averaged more possessions and a higher fg% than this season. Can next year’s team find 4 more possessions/game and shoot 4% better than this year’s team? It seems like a small difference, but I suspect in reality it is a tall order. Still, I won’t put anything past Sarah Azzi and Serah. In any event, I’ll be happy to see them average 81.7 again, especially if they hold opponents to 52.2 or even less. I’d look for an improvement in the latter stat before the former. This team looks to have some pretty serious defensive chops. [/QUOTE]

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