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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 5064367, member: 9844"] I think the support for Jana starting does have a significant hope element to it, but Geno and other players comments have been encouraging, and we have to remember that this question was not who are the 5 best players, but who will start, and that is a very different question. Jana has just one natural competitor this year and that is Ice. I know there is great debate over two bigs vs. four out, but I haven't heard support for five out yet. Jana is the only player with true C size, Ice is a little short. Both could easily be considered 4/5 type players but on this team we need their minutes to be at the 5. Ice only had to be better than Amari to get regular minutes last year. This year to start, she needs to be better than Jana, but will likely still get backup minutes there. The competition at 1-3 is incredibly tougher than at the 5. We have many options that are exceptional on the perimeter, but when it comes to the 5, we need Jana and Ice to be both very good and healthy. Frankly we don't have a good plan B at least at that position, if either doesn't meet expectations or gets injured. My best guess is Jana will be the real deal as a starter, but that Ice might be ok but not really a plus by Uconn standards as the backup, but maybe we get a big sophomore bump. [/QUOTE]