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Message: [QUOTE="Bald Husky, post: 4801456, member: 11020"] I thought a lot about talking about this because to some it was a sensitive subject. Last year, when Nika was our only point guard, a rebounder would automatically get that first pass to Nika and they would be off to the races. Nika broke the UConn yearly assist record by getting many transition baskets, running up the floor on almost every play. When Nika came off the bench 2 or3 years ago, she would change the complection of the game with her running style, a contrast to Paiges deliberate style. It seems to me that now we have lost that. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Nika fan and find it not smart for anyone to think that she should not start. Now, I am thinking that may be one of our problems, that our running game is almost non-existent. When Paige and Nika play together, even when Nika brings the ball up, our offence is slowed down. Lets face it, our outside shooting this year is horrendous, so we are turning the ball over and not productive at all at the half court. Paige is the best player in the country in my book, but as we already know she is not a pusher of the offence, at least not like Nika. Maybe Nika should come off the bench, and maybe we can catch our opponents off guard like we used to with the chance of aggression. For this to work, we need Caroline to play so we can be assured of having adequate shooters playing with both point guards if Geno decides to go that route. We also need Ayanna to be in the mix for rebounding. If everyone else gets healthy (not Azzi of course), we have enough players to field two entirely different teams, the deliberate Paige team, and the running Nika team. Of course, Nika and Paige would be on the floor together occasionally, but we have to do something to get better as a team, because now we don't look any better than an average team, and that is not UConn. So, what do you guys think, should Nika and Paige be separated, or do you have a better solution to this problem? We have a week before Texas, so I hope Geno can figure something out, because right now we are not playing well, or together, which is UConns trademark. [/QUOTE]

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