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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4766960, member: 1673"] As a long time fan of beautiful UConn basketball, with multiple players all contributing to both offensive and defensive efficiency, I favor efficiency over production. Clark’s efficiency to facilitate is still great, worthy of the elite guard that she is, but Bueckers’ efficiency was off the charts as a freshman, better than any recent guards, including Clark and Ionescu (and how quickly people forgot the historic triple double machine that was Ionescu). I don’t know all the stats, but I suspect the freshman Bueckers was more efficient than the likes of Vandersloot and Penicheiro. The freshman Bueckers was more efficient than the career of Bird. The start of her sophomore year was even more efficient than her freshman, but then injury and the latter part of the season brought her back down to earth. Muhl does not have the historic efficiency of Bueckers, but it is nonetheless elite, better even than Clark’s. Muhl benefits from the shooting efficiency of teammates, but Clark benefited even more from the high efficiency of her teammates and high possessions of the exciting Iowa offense. Clark also played with essentially the same starters over three years, while neither Bueckers nor Muhl played with consistent starters even within the same year. The nature of UConn’s roster, with two elite efficiency facilitators, means neither is likely to top the country in assists/game this coming year. They will not draw credit from simplistic analyses such as the one linked but, if UConn stays relatively free from injuries and has a consistent starting line up, I suspect we will be treated to the best of the beautiful basketball that has been UConn. [/QUOTE]

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