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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4123678, member: 3535"] And this team will execute better overall if they have a healthy and hopefully decent enough defender in Azzi Fudd. It's the same story as last year. The guards other than Paige can't consistently hit outside shots. As a result, UCONN can’t consistently open up the lane and can’t consistently work on their inside players getting enough touches to improve much. Then what it means is that because UICONN doesn’t have any consistency from the perimeter other than Paige, then Paige is forced to play a lot of minutes beucase she is the only one that can consistently score in the halfcourt. Right now if you were to employ a defense it would be defend one player as much as possible and just pack the paint (take your chances with CW and Evina hitting.). Offensive execution overall will improve if Azzi is healthy and has her legs and if she can defend. Until then – anytime they play any team that is decent to pretty good never mind very good, Paige is going to have to play a lot of minutes and the offense will struggle [B]more than it otherwise should (get too many games like this which eventually will catch up to you; i.e. FF etc).[/B] There is just too much “clutter” inside and the guards other than Paige can’t shoot it well enough to break the clutter. And imo this year CD is not an answer. Right now for uCONN the games come down to CW hitting outside shots, and Evina in combo not only can she hit outside shots but if she can then be able to shoot enough of them. [/QUOTE]

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