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[QUOTE="Lynx23, post: 2599124, member: 309"]
I was at the game and you're 100% correct that the players switched off on defense a lot and all contributed to a fine defensive effort. Something else I found interesting, though. Laska spent a lot of the game guarding Kia. Now Kia didn't take a lot of shots and nor does she have to since UCONN has lots of shooters. It's different for Laska who must shoot a lot to help keep her team in the game. With Laska shadowing her, Kia would often move to her spot on the floor and stand there for a seconds before taking off and sprinting towards the basket with Laska in hot pursuit, usually through the middle of the action, seemingly in an effort to free herself for an open shot. Kia is the Energizer bunny; if she gets tired she rarely shows it. But I kept wondering if this was not a strategy to wear Laska out physically? If so, it seemed to have worked and may have been a contributing factor to Laska's poor shooting effort. A "game within a game", maybe.
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