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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5291564, member: 12088"] Sensei, I don’t doubt that the individual players will be at least as awesome as last season. The issue is opportunities to score. That’s a difficult limit to raise. We already led D1 in FG%, so the only path to more points is likely to come from the defense. We forced 18.7 turnovers last season. Could we raise that to 21 or 22? Maybe. But that’s a tall order. Our defense was already a very tight ship last season. They only allowed 52 points for a differential of 30. That’s what I’m more focused on. When I look at individual players, I expect Sarah to up her scoring by 2 or 3 points and Azzi to up hers by 5 or 6. But Serah is likely to score less at UConn than she did at Wisconsin. Will there be big moves in the rest of the roster? Somehow, I doubt it. If Caroline or Blanca add 10 points, it will come out of someone else’s totals. Last season we had 63 FG attempts. Can we raise it by 4 or 5? Maybe, but this is also a difficult number to budge. In the end, I think it all comes down to team defense and FG%. Force more turnovers and this leads to quick shot opportunities. Shoot a slightly higher percentage and you get 4 or 5 more points. [/QUOTE]