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Message: [QUOTE="SimpleDawg, post: 3211132, member: 9267"] Allow me to fanboy over Rickea Jackson. She was the missing piece of last year. No wonder we needed a dominant center last year, because our best offensive creator apart from T was Jordan Danberry. Nobody will dare clog the lanes this year. Rickea looks like a machine out there. She stops, reloads, changes course, keeps the defense guessing, and finally puts up the shot anytime she gets any daylight. This is a program changing talent. Call me a Mississippi State slobberer but my eyes don't deceive me here... she's probably even going to be bigger than Vivians once she's finished. I truly think we can survive without a dominant center this year. And it helps that based on early glimpses there's not that much separating our #1 and #2 (Carter and Morris). Morris is not T, but it looks like with her in the game she can create some loose ball situations, have the ball bounce around hands, and at least impact where people go. So we don't need to worry about foul trouble next year in the Center position, going 3 deep. I think Carter can do a little more with the ball than Morris, but Morris impacts the game more or changes it more... especially on defense. I'm also surprised how much Hemingway looked to impose. Pretty much every play ended up being either Jackson finishing the play or Hemingway. Hemingway looks comfortable with contact. It seems like that's how she likes to play, but Japan can't play any contact ball at all. They play away with it. We had that advantage in this game, and a lot of it was because of Hemingway. Just saying. Hemingway is probably not Anriel Howard yet, but her strength seems to be contact ball in the paint (not Anriel's game at all)..... I wonder how she'll challenge better players in Divison I. Overall, quite pleased with this group of new talent. They look really skilled and varied. There were only 4 players who played against Oregon in the Elite 8 that's playing in this tournament. Holmes, Carter, Scott, and Espinoza-Hunter. Holmes will not be here much longer, Scott has been injured (not sure if she'll play in the final game), Espinoza hasn't been used a lot at all, and Carter has seen a leap but didn't do much against Oregon. So we're doing this without most of our key contributors last year. These are just my thoughts at this point. Nothing much more than that. ... [/QUOTE]

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