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[QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4491305, member: 3834"]
I don’t remember that people thought Nika wouldn’t play at all. I believe it was more hat people thought she would be a useful backup but not the driver of the bus. Yes, Nika is great, she’s doing a fine job. However, let’s not kid ourselves that she isn’t where she is largely because of injuries to superior players.
 To her credit, she has taken that ball and run with it but let’s face it, if Paige, Caroline, and Azzi had never been injured she would have a very different role on this team. Perhaps, she may have bulled her way into getting good minutes as a pg backup for Paige but even so, her minutes would have been greatly reduced. This, of course, is a very common scenario in life. Starter/lead/boss gets
injured/sick and backup/understudy/assistant becomes a star!
I too think Ines is capable of being much more than a benchwarmer for this team. She is going to have a tough time getting minutes though. KK, Ashlynn, and (the following year) Allie are all better players that she will have to beat out for her minutes and that’s not even mentioning Nika, Paige, and Azzi!  UConn is a tough gig.
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