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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 2062590, member: 3535"] [B]You can do it vs Gabby and vs Lou-- though I don't agree with it (by the way - on anoter trhead I believe UCONN should get - deserves THREE a/a's for the top ten)[/B]-- but you can do it. A poster on another thread mentioned he thought the best player on the team was Gabby. And on offense the poster thought Gabby was more important than the numbers. Because if it were not for her passing and setting up maybe the 2nd pass or 3rd pass - the offense wouldn't click. Gabby has the most assists on the only undefeated Div 1 team in basketball. How much is Collier's getting a pass from "mostly because of Collier" or "mostly because of Gabby?" Add in Lou. She is 6'3. Another poster brought up on that same thread I think - that Lou forces the defense out to guard her. How often - especially lately will her defender drop off of her? They do drop off of her- and lose her sometimes- sure. But often not so much. She is 6'3 and has a high release. Everyone uses smaller players to guard her-- if they are too small- your ability to help and recover on defense will have minimal impact on her. You just have to pray she misses if you try to significantly help and recover. Thus Lou changes the strategy of a defense (and indirectly an offense) too by her mere presence. Case in point- go back to the ND game. Muffett's comments-- she mentioned that she had thought of playing zone but decided against it. [B]1.)[/B] Why do you think she decided against it? [B]2.)[/B] What would have been the primary cause for Muffett deciding not to play zone (by playing zone you can squeeze Gabby and Collier a bit)? [B]3.)[/B] By having to go man-to-man listen to her presser. She said she had to take out Mabrey and use Young to defend Lou. Individually Young could be considered better than Mabrey but ND was trying to get the ball inside to Turner. Mabrey is better at forcing the defense outside thus more room could have been given for Turner.[B] 4.)[/B] Lou's presence and just a short time during the game caused Muffett to pull Mabrey. The point is that we see the obvious. We can see for example the very bigs from the power teams have to let Gabby shoot the 12-15 footer. Then if she hits a couple - that opens up her drive even more. If she isn't hitting she still can make plays because she is so much quicker. The thing is - the floor is opened up a bit more because of Lou. And as far as Gabby - my God - her defense leads to how much transition? Think of all the easy baskets because of her defense and rebounding then setting up the break. There is no way to measure that imo. In our "who is best debates" Gabby is awesome. Lou is awesome. Collier is awesome. So many variables. I lean towards Collier because I have an efficiency bias. Though I don't think for example Wilt in NBA as GOAT. Anyhow - I suppose the reason why we are so good this year is that even the coaches can't develop a plan to stop the synergy UCONN has exhibited. I wonder if a team is going to be brazen enough "to challenge Lou" in the NCAA's and dare her to beat them instead of sticking one player and occupying that defender on her and then not using that defender for much help. or maybe try to play a zone or gimmick defense - and see if Lou can beat you. Maybe if in 1st half her shot is off- "challenge her" to make shots in the 2nd half of a big game? [/QUOTE]

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