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Message: [QUOTE="MSUrealist, post: 3867382, member: 11054"] DefenseBB, I basically agree with what you wrote and appreciate your input. On the topic of Rickea Jackson, she is almost exclusively a 3 which I consider a guard rather than a small forward, but either way is fine. As far as Jackson regressing some this season, IMO a lot of what we are seeing is that NMP wants to expand the role of Jackson over how she was used last year. In Vic's dribble-drive system, Jackson's offense was built around coming off screens and mostly shooting open mid-range jump shots or drives to the basket. She only took 10 3-point shots in the 19 games against SEC opponents. NMP has often said that she wants Jackson to become a threat on 3-point shots and one-on-one situations as well, and at times it has looked like a case of Jackson taking one step back to move two steps forward. Likewise, Carter wasn't involved all that much in the offense last year except for putting back offensive rebounds and having balls dumped off to her after someone drove into the paint. They are trying to get the ball inside to her more this year with the idea that Carter make moves towards the basket, but usually she goes to the fadeaway jump shot. So that's a work in progress. BTW, I do agree with you that Teaira McCowan was to MS State somewhat like Larry Bird was to Indiana State. Vic made MS State a solid top-20 program and that was a great accomplishment, but McCowan was that player who elevated the program to the very highest levels. I don't think it is outrageous to suggest that if Texas had McCowan instead of Collier or MS State had McCowan instead of Carter, both of those teams could quite possibly be top-10 right now. I said could, not would, but I personally think they would be. [/QUOTE]

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