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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5260544, member: 12088"] This is absolutely key. I expect KK and Ash have a long summer of "self-improvement" ahead of them... and I have a feeling it will be the time of their lives. Also, worth mentioning this oft neglected fact: Azzi is a premier PG if she wants to be. We mustn't forget how her sophomore season began, when she shared the PG duties with Nika. Go back and watch that Texas game or the NC State game to see what I'm talking about. Of course, it helped to have a "pass-first" PG who didn't like taking too many shots playing next to her. And guess what, she'll have that again in KK in the fall. Finally, one more word on Ash: two season's ago, she got that midrange shot off a lot more regularly. Some of them came off of O-boards she was corralling near the free throw line. From there, she could dribble-step right and go straight into her shooting motion. What's changed is her new role has her clawing back rebounds from opposing bigs directly under the rim. This doesn't give her the space to put the ball back up among the trees, and so she has to kick it out. Her game is a complex set of little tradeoffs, and it may be that the current set seems more productive from Geno's perspective than the previous one. I mean, this was central to the small-ball lineup. If we expect to see that lineup again next season, then we should expect to see more of Ash in the low post. [/QUOTE]