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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5075663, member: 13453"] When Crystal Dangerfield was a rookie at Minnesota, Reeve told her that she needs to master the pick-and-roll and its derivatives and related actions. Reeve was surprised that Crystal didn’t master it at UConn. Crystal’s positionless basketball teams didn’t have the kind of post players (except for Napheesa) for that kind of simple staple effective play wrinkle to the offense. That wrinkle is latent with our great offensive guards. The 2024-2025 team significantly does: [LIST] [*]Pick-and-pop (all except Ayanna?); [*]Pick-and-roll (all). [/LIST] Opposing bigs will need to pick their poison and not just camp out in the paint as most of our bigs can efficiently shoot-drive-pass (motion)-pass (point) almost anywhere on the court. It seems it will be open season for our guards / wings (say, on drives to the basket unlike recent years). Spacing would be better, allowing more open shots. [/QUOTE]