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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 2967896, member: 8636"] Appreciate the post. Concern regarding Lou! Big-time. I'm disappointed! It's her time to step up and be a player of the year type player. It's not happening and as a fan I'm not enjoying watching it. Pheesa is rock solid, but she has limitations. Some players have the gift of super-stardom. Lots of intangibles that makes up those players. UConn has had a lopsided number of these players- D, Maya, and Stewie in particular. (nothing to do- google UConn girls- and see how many of Geno's titles were influenced by the 3 of them. Short answer, almost all of the 11.) Everyone else is a notch below- Tina, Swin, Sue, Moriah, Morgan, Kyesha, etc, etc. I do not think Lou can physically be that great player. She lacks strength, quickness, and agility. She rarely finishes when she feels contact. She does not protect the ball in traffic. So many of those plays when her arms flail out after the ball has been touched. Super stars finish! And one! She forces shots, hence her poor percentage and her streaks of misses. I believe the grand experiment of her being a prolific scorer is over! Time for role-playing. Lou hits open shots when they are not forced and she is on balance. Those are the shots she should take in addition to transition layups and follow-ups. She still shoots like a high school kid, from her chest, and she cannot shoot under duress and she cannot create her own shot. So, let's stop pretending. She is an all-American player in the best program in America, but we must cultivate her strengths and not expect some of these plays that she is not capable of making. Keep the ball moving and where the mismatches are materializing is around the freshman and the sophomore. Katie will rise when teams get tired of the youngsters killing them and all will be right in the world. IMO Katie Lou will be a WNBA stalwart for a decade but she will never be at that top echelon. Now IMO Geno has to start reining in her shot selection and more clearly define her role. She can't do what she wants to do, she's not that good! It's ugly and as a fan I find it aesthetically unpleasing. BTW Kudos on her passing and rebounding. My rant is about the shooting ineffectiveness and shot selection. Out [/QUOTE]

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