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[QUOTE="jeff30189, post: 4932895, member: 11868"]
In every team sport, each player has a role and a job to do.  This is particularly true in basketball at all levels including the pros.  Ashlynn and Azzi are shooters.   'Liya and Audrey (when healthy) provide rebounding.   Nika is your shutdown defender, much like Deion Sanders was a DB in football.   If a player can do more than one thing very well, that's great.   Paige is the rare swiss army knife who can do a multitude of things very well.

The point is that Nika did her job until she inexplicably reverted to freshman Nika and fouled everything she could see.  Fair had 2 points in the first half, and after Nika fouled out I [I]think[/I] Fair had more than half her points.  Nika's JOB last night was to play shutdown D on Fair; it wasn't shooting or scoring.

Ash, Paige, KK and for 30 minutes Nika... they did their jobs.   'Liya had a quiet night but she still had a double double.  Nika fouling out and the turnovers by Ice and 'Liya were almost the difference in the game.  Mental and execution errors that need to get fixed by Saturday.
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