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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4322101, member: 199"] Sticking in the NBA as a 'borderline' player I think starts with commitment to being a good defender and then learning a role and consistently performing that role. Coaches want consistent performances from their bench players - they want to know when they call on a player what they will get. (Consistency as a shooter night after night, year after year is really hard to achieve and very few 'borderline players that depend only on scoring last long.) Defense and consistently filling a role is the secret to Uconn success as well so it is the regime they have been under for their 4 years in college. That is what makes them WNBA ready. And you see it from early days of the WNBA to today - Maya Moore, DT, Sue, Tina, Breanna, they were going to be stars at every level they played wherever they went to school. (Uconn helped them all in their development and I think they were better pros sooner because of Geno and CD.) Jessica Moore, Ashley Battle and others were not AAs, were not stars in college, but lasted much longer in the WNBA than many of the players that came into the WNBA as 'stars' by being good teammates and good role players for their teams. Kiah Stokes is another - she hardly started a game at Uconn and yet she is still a major part of her WNBA team 7 years after her graduation. [/QUOTE]