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[QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2613651, member: 1131"]
It goes back to getting one's own shot.  In many cases, Kia scores because Gabby or someone else has beaten their defender and drawn Kia's defender away to provide help, and then Kia gets a wide-open shot after someone makes a pretty pass to her.  Or she scores on a fast break because she is very good at bleeding out of her defensive assignment as soon as she recognizes that a teammate is going to get a rebound or a steal.  She recognizes that two steps before the player she is guarding does -- a real skill that causes her to get a lot of touchdown passes from teammates that she converts into layups.

At the WNBA level, most guards will be able to do those things, and opponents are better able to stop them, so she will have to have good 1-on-1 moves to get a lot of her scores.  In my opinion, that is where Kelly (unlike Tiffany Hayes) failed to make a dent in the WNBA -- she needed help from teammates to get a scoring opportunity.  I thought Kelly had a more impactful UConn career that her classmate Tiff, but at the pro level the opposite has been the case.
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