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Message: [QUOTE="TeamFirst!, post: 4361839, member: 11538"] If you watch Lou's game much she is perhaps most prepared to handle Paige's role on the team. She is great at coming off screens and nailing a jump shot. I think she emerges as a more important player as a result of this horrid development. No one can replace Paige but Lou is capable of doing at least some of the same things. I don't want Caroline playing point nearly at all but she's not bad at breaking a press. She's a smart, well trained player and I hope to God she's healthy when the season starts. She is best when she can move and get under the basket to post up a guard. I see Azzi in the same role she had last year. She already was drawing the focus of the other teams. I do see a few more pull up jumpers which she is very good at. She's more than a 3 point shooter. Her game advances this year. She may be a better point guard than some others but she's a slam dunk shooting guard. Coming up a lot of her play was at the point though. She can be a Rori Harmon type point guard and it may be a big part of her game this year. Nika can't play all the time or if she does we won't be maximized. Aubrey is going to be needed even more now. I hope she emerges as a defensive stopper and overall contributor. Stanford and SC are our two biggest competitors and both should have huge lineups this year. Betts will be a force and Stanford still has a lot of size in the front line left from last year. And SC has the same size they crushed us with last year. The bottom line is we are probably going to go with a bigger lineup now as we are going to need to. Ice, Amari and Ayanna can help us but it will be more from a rebounding and box out perspective than taking jumpers from the top of the key. I know Geno loves that ability but part of it is because he had Briana Stewart for God's sake. He doesn't have that and probably is not going to have that although Ice might be closer to that than anyone. I think our big lineup ( 3 bigs ) might be huge for us this year. We may find it is utilized more now that we have lost Paige. Maybe Caroline is that 3rd big sometimes also. We probably don't go the year without losing another guard or 2 for a while. We are going to need the 3 big lineup for a number of reasons. Keeping people healthy might be a big part of that. [/QUOTE]

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