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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3998701, member: 5798"] OD, your comment got me thinking. Admittedly, I never really gave much thought or credence to her defensive prowess. You are 100% correct! Aubrey IMO is our best defensive player (unless and until I see otherwise from one of our newbies). Geno said that Aubrey can do things no one else on the team can do. Watching her "breakout" 25 point game her freshman year @ Seton Hall messed me up because she showed us and the world what she was capable of doing coming off the bench. The talent is there!! We desperately need a "lock down" defender the likes of Moriah Jefferson, Kia Nurse and Gabby Williams and Breanna Stewart. Yes, points win ball games, but so does being able to throw a blanket over the opposing team's best player, and make them virtually disappear. :D We've got plenty of girls that can "score the basketball", we need someone that can make stops, get steals and cause turnovers. It's not good enough to score 120 points if your opponent scores 121. If someone had been able to lock down Chelsea Dungy, UConn would have beaten Arkansas by double digits. That 19-0 run against Baylor was very instrumental in UConn winning that game. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1624906361671.png"]68238[/ATTACH] [B]NyLyssa Smith[/B] at 6'2" is the real deal. A winner of the Wade Trophy and the Katrina McClain Award (presented annually to [B]the best[/B] women's basketball power forward in the country. She is projected as one of the top basketball prospects for the 2022 WNBA draft. She's not chopped liver. If that is to be Aubrey's role this year, I'm OK with it, as long as she can be consistent and dominant in its application. I want her to be an "irritant" to whomever she's assigned to. I want to see her be great when Geno needs her to be. :) [/QUOTE]

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