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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5010841, member: 12088"] I’m with you about Azzi. And I’d add that as a scorer she is significantly better given the little we’ve seen of her. We’re also stuck comparing potential to actual achievements which isn’t super fair to Caitlin. But that one head to head game was very revealing. Iowa played really great team defense that day and Kate Martin shot the lights out from 3. In other words, Caitlin had plenty of support. And Dorka sat that one out, so it was just Aaliyah against Czinano in the post for the most part. Caroline contributed late in the game and Lou played pretty well for that stretch of her UConn career. Anyway, the point is Azzi played better and was more clutch than Caitlin that day, though Caitlin had more rebounds and assists. And Azzi did it with a patchwork team that was already reeling from I juries to Paige and Dorka, and Caroline was only feeling her way back. I mention that merely to say that ordinarily folks don’t get a lot of triple doubles, or huge numbers, on UConn because of the style of play. But for that brilliant 6 game stretch folks outside the BY were talking about Azzi’s POY season in the making. By contrast, Caitlin played on a settled team with no injuries to the core players who’d been together for three years straight. And that core was used to deferring to her in scoring and supporting her defensively. Well, Azzi didn’t win the NPOY that season, and she won’t likely win it next season either if everyone comes back healthy. She’ll share the scoring load with Paige and a bunch of super talented youngsters. It will be the Paige and Azzi show, to be sure. But they don’t give NPOYs to duos no matter how dynamic they are. They’ll win that NC together if all goes well, but they’ll do it UConn style, as a team not a superstar and supporting cast. [/QUOTE]

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