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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 3881364, member: 175"] That also is important when people try to question Paige’s defensive ability, which has been an area she has subtlety improved on this year. That switching system doesn’t work if you have a weak link - you just get the switch you want and attack the mismatch (ala Kemba 10 years ago this week). It happened twice against SJU when Paige switched onto Correa and she forced her into bad shots - one of those possessions was terrific D (a contested 18-foot fadeaway). She hasn’t been perfect - you can find a blow by here and there - and once today she let Siegrist catch it pretty deep and she missed a short one. But it’s increasingly difficult to expose her. Earlier in the year, I think we were making an effort to hide her on defense, but now we are more comfortable with switching, which can take away a lot of what all the motion and spread offenses try to do (Butler was a little bit of a one-off in that we tried to trap them a lot to speed the game up and left them open). I feel like we are better able to handle offensive wrinkles than we were two months ago. [/QUOTE]