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Message: [QUOTE="Tonyc, post: 5151777, member: 73"] To come back once again from a double digit deficit and fall short again against a top team only shows where we can be down the road. We lack experience and we need to get healthy. Mainly Azzi and Griff coming back and dusting off the rust. After the first of the year that will happen. Both are impact players. There are are alot of couldve wouldves in yesterdays loss. That will all change as we move forward and our inexperienced players get more experience and our comeback players dust off the rush and get more playtime. In all fairness to Azzi she was rusty last nite. I am putting that aside for now and looking for her to get more play time and become proficient again and do the things Azzi does. Last nite we saw some weaknesses and many posters have talked about Jana and Ice. Both are underclassman and Jana is playing her first real season and has only played in 12 games against some of the top teams in WCBB. I think we need to focus on our talent which we have alot of. We are still going through our growing pains. Thats the frustrating part. We know what we can be and we havent reached our potential yet We are not 100% healthy yet and that imo is a big problem. Sarah has been a blessing. As a freshman she play beyond her years. I see Morgan at 6'2 developing over the next few weeks into a solid player who has great fundamentals. She boxes out and gets rebounds. She can handle the ball and pass. She has a good shot which we need badly and that shot will get better with more playtime which I think shes earned. Now bring back Azzi and seeing what Ashlynn has in potential and we have 5 scorers who are fundamentally sound. Ive been reading about we need Bigs who can play. Ice is in her second season and Jana in her first. Jana has not played at this level and is still learning. Again the talent is there and it will take time. What we need is patience and work Ice and Jana along which we have the luxury to do over the next 5 weeks during the BE season. Over the next 5 weeks we have time and I believe that time will show us their improvement. We arent far off from being where we know we can be. We gonna look back on these two losses and say it shouldve never come down to this because of where we will be in the next few weeks. Realize that in these two losses we were in striking distance to win. IMO we lacked that one more scorer. We will have at least that one more scorer with the development of our underclassman and Azzi and Griff coming off the injured reserve. To be able to pull off what we did against ND and USC without Azzi and Griff tells you somethin about this team and their potential. Let me say this too. Azzi when 100% healthy is an impact player. Just like Paige and Sarah. What happened last nite when we got close is USC knew it was going to be Paige as the first option and Sarah as the second option. So they keyed on those two. Another point is the two stats that we need to get a grip on is our foul shooting and how ND and USC shot over 55% from trey. Even with that stat we were in those games. As frustrated as I am with both losses I have hope, because I know we have the talent. WIth our talent I know we're headed in the right direction. I know what we can become because of our talent. We will. [/QUOTE]

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