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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 4646874, member: 44"]
Because she plays the same position as the best player on the team and is a little turnover prone.  Paige Bueckers is a better passer, has a higher basketball IQ while also being a major scoring threat.  Sure you can play Paige as a two guard, and I suspect that's what may happen, but anytime you take the ball out of her hands you hurt the team.  Nika's strengths, which are considerable, or largely derivative of her passing and running the offense.  Undoubtedly, because very good at those things, Paige is better.  I will say that Nika is in outstanding defender and disruptor.

I'm not saying that Nika will not start, I am just pointing out that there are reasons why she might not get the starting nod on a team that is as talented as Connecticut will be next season. 
 
Although I think starting prognostications are at best informed guesses this early in the season, I suspect that Nika will start at the start of the year, but given all the talent that we have, it would not surprise me if someone else assumed a starting role in the second half of the year, giving us more offensive fire power.
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