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Message: [QUOTE="AzzisBraids, post: 5155336, member: 11721"] There's a specific kind of player missing or not yet emerged on this current roster that has been a mainstay for UConn's success, and that's the defensive utility player. Think of the Kelly Faris, Kia Nurse, Nika Muhl, Kiah Stokes, Evina Westbrook, Nelson-Ododa, Gabby Williams and notable others who specialized in being the glue that keeps the roster going by being expert defenders, hustle players and doing some things offensively that keeps the team going. Momentum building hustle plays, steals, three, lockdown defenders, this kind of player is what this roster is missing right now. They have one loading, Aubrey Griffin had all the tools pre-injury to fit the billing and hope she remains that in this next frame. Do you remember when Moriah Jefferson would harass guards into turnovers? Nelson-Ododa's elite post passing and rebounding? How Kia Nurse put Kitia Latska of South Florida in hell everytime they met and then would pop 3's like they were candy, or how Stokes would block and rebound like she was clocked into to work? That for me, is the missing ingredient in the recipe of this season. A lockdown defender that doubles as a playmaker of sorts. [/QUOTE]