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Message: [QUOTE="BfromCT, post: 3492148, member: 10542"] The inexplicable decision of Megan Walker to skip her senior season at UConn (so far as I can remember the first player to enter the draft after 3 years) will make the 2020-21 team a weaker one than was seen two weeks ago. The squad with Walker had the distinct look of a Final Four contender an possible national championship. In addition, she had a chance to be national player of the year, but now it is a stretch to consider the team of top four quality, although it could be so. We can expect that Williams, Nelson-Odoba, and Makurat are almost certainly locks for starting. The other two starters will be Westbrook, Bueckers, and/or Griffin with Edwards in contention for a lot of playing time. As of this moment, I see Griffin and Edwards as the first players off the bench. But, the composition of the starting five is less important than the five who are on the floor at crunch time in a big game. Two things to pay particular attention to for next season are who is going to take the big shot when needed and who is going to provide leadership on a team without any seniors. The team has after all lost its two most experienced players for the third year in a row and will be an inexperienced one. There seems to be potentially a great deal of talent and we do not know if there will be any transfers or not. I hope the NCAA does not relax transfer rules because what is now an increasing tide will quickly become a tsunami and I do not want to women’s game to become like the men’s, where teams like Kentucky hire players for one year before they turn pro. The last thing the women’s game needs is to become more like the men’s by making it so much easier for players to change teams. One last point, with all the hype Paige Bueckers is getting, one would think that she is the greatest thing to come along since white bread. We hope that she is the next Diana Taurasi or Larry Bird who can lead the Huskies once again to the promised land, but we should keep our expectations under control. She hasn’t set foot on campus yet and, if she can play effective point next season, that will be fine. I endorse the comments of Geesworld. [/QUOTE]

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