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Message: [QUOTE="Vowelguy, post: 5251085, member: 59"] Around mid-season I started to feel bad for Azzi, thinking that injuries had permanently derailed her career. Her great performances came inconsistently and she often seemed nervous or tentative. It's gotta be extremely tough to have had such early success but then never get back there because of a seeming never-ending string of bad luck injuries. And then you put pressure on yourself to be that good again ... and it spirals from there. Then the SC game. She finally had that star performance, and I recall thinking this must be such relief and such joy, to do what you may have doubted was ever possible again. [Not to get into a kid's head; who knows what she was actually thinking.] And then she played great in the tournament. Aggressive on defensive. Very quick around the court. Not just a 3 point shooter. Very glad she got this stretch of sustained high-level play, and hopefully more to come. [/QUOTE]