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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 4389411, member: 6620"] ??? If this news had dropped last year or even halfway through this season, I might nod my head and "get it." However, given the Wing's performance the second half of the year, I'm perplexed and now turn my head toward GM Greg Bibb as the reason Dallas seems to be in a cha-cha mode: Per Coach J: [LIST] [*]I initially hated her "give me 5 minutes" stints because, IMO, it destroyed continuity. She adjusted that approach and did a smoother job of playing the hot hand. [*]Coach J. was very much for the entire team sharing the ball.. It was a hard sell, given that Arike seemingly had carte blanche for years. BTW, this "let it rip" approach was not confined to Arike -- Satou Sabally was very much an ISO devotee. [*]However, once she got Big T into the middle on a starting basis, the ball was being shared in the point and others -- Thornton -- started getting involved. [*]When Arike and Sabally were out, I thought Coach J did a very good job of working with Allisha Gray and Marina Mabrey to balance their individual scoring talents along with the team approach. Plus, she got to insert Veronica Burton at point guard, which was a natural for her, given Coach J's preference for defense-first approach. Good balance [*]There were/some major question marks regarding high-visibility draft choices languishing on the bench (Charli Collier,Tyasha Harris), but those might say more about whether those choices were merited. [/LIST] Ultimately, this decision says as much to me about Bibb, who seems to have amassed a lot of parts that seemingly aren't quite meshing. Coach J was trying to incorporate some form of defense and ball sharing. Unless there's some behind-the-scenes squabbling going on we don't know about, it looks like the Wings were buying it. I was looking forward to Bella Alarie coming back and joining Big T to give some very solid lane play. The big question mark, ironically, was whether Arike could make her game mesh more with the team approach, as Gray and Mabrey were attempting. No need now. Will be interesting to see if Bibb keeps his roster unchanged -- meaning he believes in his work -- or if he tweaks, recognizing not all the parts fit. Meanwhile, let's see if Coach J arrives in Indianapolis for an interview with the Indiana Fever. [/QUOTE]

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