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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4062327, member: 9844"] I don't see the comparison, partly because on her current team Bonner isn't a post at all, she is a wing. A very tall, very skinny wing. Playing next to J. Jones and B. Jones it makes sense, and she has found a comfort zone there. Mobile and long enough to guard 3's, while able to take them one on one and shoot over them. Liv could probably guard spot up 4's on the perimeter, and maybe an occasional 3, but offensively she doesn't appear to have any of Bonner's skills. In some ways I think Liv is a traditional post. She scores most of her points very close to the basket usually against much smaller players that are not that physical. When facing size and strength her low post game has disappeared against bigger college players, and it only gets worse in the pros. Her likely draft position suffers from those perceptions. Is it possible she could reverse those views? Maybe, but she needs to power thru contact when surrounded by other bigs underneath, bang hard for position on offense and hold hers on defense. Scouts are waiting to see that. With Dorka onboard the Uconn practices might be revealing. Liv has a talented physical player every bit as tall and quite a bit stronger to battle with. That might help her, but I just don't see the physical strength and skills to succeed were she needs to, namely right under the basket against players as tall and much stronger. [/QUOTE]