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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5072647, member: 12088"] Ayanna had knee soreness freshman year and it got bad enough to curtail her minutes and her development as the season wore on. Geno and CD said as much more than once. She did not disappoint me. However, she also has the usual profile of a big who needs to adjust to the different reality of D1 basketball. I watched several of her high school games and she didn’t typically encounter kids as big as her. She’s 6’2” (or so) and she’s got long arms and big shoulders. There were taller kids in HS, but she always stood out in those games as physically much more imposing than anyone else on the court. At UConn she encountered kids as physically imposing as herself in almost every game. This is probably why she took too many shot fakes early on instead of simply going up strong through contact. Her shot even got blocked. This was a new experience for her. This is probably still going to be part of the learning curve for her. But I think she’s a lot further along now merely by being an observer on the bench for an extra season. The sooner she gets back to full practice and gets game minutes the sooner she will flourish. She is a unique player, big, strong and quick. It’s a formidable combination. I can hardly wait to see what she can do healthy. [/QUOTE]