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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4103797, member: 1131"] What about the 17-2 scoring run to start the game, to which Paige contributed 0 points? For the game as a whole, UConn was 37-for-65 on field goal attempts, and Paige was 15-for-19. So the rest of the team was 22-for-46, or just under 50%. I don't think that is too shabby. I didn't see any serious problems with the offense at all. There were several minor things -- no one except Evina could hit 3's, there were too many traveling violations, and Nika never got untracked offensively. But those really are minor problems, easily sorted out with game experience -- probably even without focusing on them in practice. The whole problem Sunday was with defense, and more specifically defense against penetration. UConn did largely shut down Arkansas's outside shooting, perhaps in part because the Razorbacks had some early-season shooting woes of their own. And UConn got 8 steals and 5 blocks. If Paige had not played, it would have been a close game that could have gone either way. I would like to think that Christyn and Evina would have stepped up to fill the void, and that UConn would have won anyway by single digits. [/QUOTE]