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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 2938821, member: 9403"] Sniezek and Williams are not really substitutes - Williams' natural position is as a 2, not a 1, and she herself has said as much. Sniezek's more probable competition is actually Jenna Brown, who's also a pure PG. Sure, Williams can run the point (and pretty well), but her preference is the 2. To illustrate, note the stats: last year with both playing roughly equal minutes, Williams had 67 assists to Sniezek's 150. I also think Sniezek, thus far, is the slightly better defender - she had 38 steals to Williams' 30, and 115 defensive rebounds to Williams' 54. And I think she's a little more physical. And Sniezek was Pac-12 All-Defensive Honorable Mention. Defense is not Sniezek's problem. The major issue with Sniezek isn't her defense - it's her shooting. She has an almost allergic reaction to taking jump shots, which means defenders can sag off her and then they're basically defending 4 with 5 unless she can find her way into the lane and go for shots off the glass. Her inability to develop an outside shot has been the biggest flaw and has really hurt us at times. I'm genuinely unsure what happens when she returns from injury in terms of who starts at the 1, because we have quite a lot of solid options for 2 and 3 (including both Hulls, Dijonai Carrington, Anna Wilson, and Brown). At this point, there's only about 25-30 games to go until Sniezek graduates, so it's not an existential problem, but we Cardinal fans have been speculating about what happens when she returns, because Williams is an overall stronger asset on court, even if she'd prefer to be at the 2, and she's been pretty effective running the point. [/QUOTE]

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