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Message: [QUOTE="VAMike23, post: 2881289, member: 150"] Meg's rebounding will be a Key_Success_Factor for this team. This year's crew will be in constant motion even more than the average UCONN team, but with CD, CW and Lou on the floor, Meg will spend plenty of time around the basket. Lots of boards for her to fight for. Fortunately, I think she is a very good rebounder for her size, if not elite like Gabby, as you point out. More like Tiffany Hayes, but bigger and stronger. Not quite as quick, but still quick. I agree, she's the one that will need to contribute most to filling the Gabby void. Defensive rebounding overall might actually be THE #1 key for this team, because without it our transition game is nada and without that we won't have the kind of success this squad is capable of. On offense, Meg has got to be able to make herself a target and convert buckets in the same vein as Collier. Not expecting her to be [I]as good[/I] as Napheesa was her soph year, just saying we will need her to provide a similar midrange and postup threat receiving the ball. (Heck, the same is also true for Lou, since there promises to be a lot of hi-lo rotation this year, with the small squad and with Lou now a pretty polished all-court player--not just a perimeter one. We will have to continue to exploit smaller guards defending her.) It's just that we can't let defenses collapse too much around Collier when she's low -- Meg has got to be a threat in the interior as well. GA sounds very positive so far, and working with Napheesa and Alex in the off-season must have paid some pretty big dividends. Fingers crossed! This should be a really fun group to watch. More 'small ball' for us! Granted, no Gabby and Kia this time so there's a lot of defensive challenges as we're already hearing. But on the offensive side, we could be more potent than the 2016-17 group was as a unit, at least once CWilliams gets her sea legs. Obviously I haven't mentioned ONO - I see her as a wild card that could tip the balance for us by late March....but until then I'll just have my popcorn out, watching how she progresses. Her roommate, on the other hand, will probably start producing for us sooner rather than later. [/QUOTE]

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