bballnut90
LV Adherent. Topic Crafter
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2011
- Messages
- 7,413
- Reaction Score
- 33,196
This is my guess too. Griffin as a spark plug player off the bench. No way Muhl doesn't start with Paige out--she's started the majority of the games in her career. Fudd at the 2, I don't see her as a PG at all based on her play last year, but she's an excellent 2. Ducharme at the 3 is also a no brainer over Griffin IMO, and Edwards/Dorka should be locks.Despite some of you, Azzi's most effective position is SG. the starting lineup with be:
Nika
Azzi
Caroline
Aaliyah
Dorka.
As for the rest of the rotation, this squad definitely isn't as deep with Bueckers/Brady out. I feel like everyone outside of the top 6 has some element of wildcard to them. LLS has nice accolades coming from a smaller school but historically those types of transfers haven't done well at UCONN. Patterson is a great athlete but looks quite raw in her basketball skills from what I've seen. I could see her being an impact player in the latter half of the season. Deberry didn't produce well as a freshman but often times we see players make a huge jump in production from their first to second year, and lastly there's Bettencourt who I know nothing about. Realistically I think Geno settles on a lineup of 7, maybe 8 deep. If he can get consistent production from the top 6 and have one of the other 4 emerge as a solid role player off the bench, UCONN will be in a nice spot going forward.