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All-American Breanna Stewart did not have to be a team leader for the Huskies during the first two years of her career. Players such as Stefanie Dolson, Caroline Doty, Kelly Faris and Bria Hartley took care of that role as Stewart just let her game do the talking.
Dolson, Doty, Faris and Hartley are gone now. And if the way Stewart handled herself during Monday’s postgame press conference at Maples Pavilion is any indication, she is poised to assume a significant leadership role this season.
And a challenge from Geno:
“I think Stewie’s made tremendous progress,’’ Auriemma said. “I think she’s graduated from being able to defend CD 1-on-1 to she might be able to defend me 1-on-1 right now. But other than that I don’t know that she’s going to be able to be the kind of leader she wants to be and that we want her to be if she doesn’t become a great 1-on-1 defender. Like she has spent the first two years here with the luxury of a whole bunch of guys that made stuff easy for her. She would just come cruising around and block a shot, do something spectacular and everybody would go, `ooo,’ while everybody else was like locking down their man and helping on her man. So now this year she doesn’t have that.’’
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Dolson, Doty, Faris and Hartley are gone now. And if the way Stewart handled herself during Monday’s postgame press conference at Maples Pavilion is any indication, she is poised to assume a significant leadership role this season.
And a challenge from Geno:
“I think Stewie’s made tremendous progress,’’ Auriemma said. “I think she’s graduated from being able to defend CD 1-on-1 to she might be able to defend me 1-on-1 right now. But other than that I don’t know that she’s going to be able to be the kind of leader she wants to be and that we want her to be if she doesn’t become a great 1-on-1 defender. Like she has spent the first two years here with the luxury of a whole bunch of guys that made stuff easy for her. She would just come cruising around and block a shot, do something spectacular and everybody would go, `ooo,’ while everybody else was like locking down their man and helping on her man. So now this year she doesn’t have that.’’
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