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[QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4363652, member: 12088"]
I haven’t seen anyone discounting Nika’s contributions. But many of us are aware of her limitations as a point guard. Despite this, I (and many likeminded folks) think it’s important for her to get playing time. I see the Tennessee game from last year as a model of Nika at her best, wreaking havoc on their point guard, getting steals and fast break scores, and generally disrupting the other teams game plan. I love her for this.

But, and it’s a big but, we all also remember how Geno used her sparingly in the latter half of tournament games. He knows what we suspect, namely that Nika’s limited offense allows opponents to sag off her and double others. She can pass well in the half court set, but once we’re facing our real competition, she won’t be able to do that if she isn’t also a threat to score off the drive. And currently she isn’t.

She knows all this, and she’s working in it now. I look forward to seeing Nika 3.0. She’ll be awesome, mainly because Nika 2.0 was already pretty great.
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