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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 3280177, member: 6620"] Good morning. I've read your (2nd person plural usage, please) give and take on Plum and Young on this thread. Having watched Ms. Plum more than a few times during her pro career and Ms. Young for virtually every game of her college career, I'll add a few points. - Jackie Young is an exceedingly good athlete and basketball player who can easily play the 1, 2 or 3. She can score and she can shoot. (you don't become the all-time leading scorer in Indiana HS history without being able to do so.) Yes, she didn't have a good year, but I think that was due to a lot of factors, from learning a new position to a bit of hoops burnout to.... - Deferring, probably to a fault. She did this at Notre Dame with her upperclassmen. In fact, Muffet McGraw was looking forward to Jackie's senior year so she could "unleash" her. By going pro and being switched to point guard, she -- what else -- deferred..... Hard to turn the switch on.... - Laimbeer plays hunches and sticks with what he thinks is working. I've seen this time after time with the Shock, the Liberty and now here with the Aces. He figures he has the players and he'll use them. Knd of a Parcells move, but is he telling his players that the pendulum can swing by quarter? - In my mind, PLum can play the point, but she likes to have the option to score. And Young will do what the coach wants and she thinks her teammates need. But I'm not sure that's maximizing her talents. She can use her "pick-up" speed to slash to the hoop. - On top of this comparison, you've got to get the ball to Cambage & Wilson, which screams "pass first." - So who will do this better? Plum? Young? Aided by a returning Lindsay Allen, who is much more traditional field general? Or pull a reordering: have Plum man the PG (backed up by Allen), have K-Mac play the 2 and move Jackie back to the 3, which was her initial (and most effective) role at ND? That said, the Aces got to the semifinals against the best regular-season team in the league. Nice situation to be in. But I agree some thinking needs to be done for next season. [/QUOTE]

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