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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5125036, member: 12088"] It looked to me like Kitts was exposed, too slow, not strong enough, to play power forward. Something similar with Hall, and Raven at PG. Dawn could favor Tessa more -- she's been a favorite of mine since her hs years -- and it wouldn't disrupt much of Dawn's game planning. But she's already playing 24 minutes. I don't exactly know who to blame for the poor PG play. Only 13 assists? Of course, UCLA only had 16. The thing is, if the team isn't built around a dominant front court, it needs much better guard play, and they didn't get it today. Maybe haven't gotten it yet this season. Dawn appears to be cursed with a long bench and not enough PGs, though she has great SGs. Could McDaniel get more minutes at PG? She led the team in assists. As for UCLA, they shot a little better. But they looked pretty disorganized to me. Maybe I missed all the incredible plays when I got up to make a sandwich. But mostly they looked like they weren't all running the same play or they had not enough experience in a read-and-react offense. I suppose they played pretty good defense, but I just didn't feel impressed. On Betts, she hit a 15 footer, which has not been a significant part of her game so far. She needs to develop this for the next level, so I'm glad to see it now. She got a few blocks and had a few turnovers. But she ought to have been even more of a presence than she was, or that UCLA's guards let her be. 14 pts in 37 mins? That's not making good use of her. And where were the other bigs on either team? Barker? Dugalic? Gardiner? So far it look like it's just Betts and Jaquez and a few confused guards. I know, I'm being too hard on them. Rice and Jones played ok. But they were outclassed by a freshman, Aarnisalo. How does that happen? It sure wasn't because SC knocked them off their game. And on SC, what happened to Walker, Tac, Dauda??? And Kitts and Feagin seemed like no-shows. It's time for Dawn to focus on Watkins and Edwards as the starters and give the others reserve minutes. She's gotten into the habit of playing a long rotation all year long. That may not serve the team so well this year. Right now, it looks like the group that's earned starting minutes is PaoPao, Tessa, Mcdaniel, Edwards and Watkins. Those 5 ought to be the core. That's a dynamite lineup and by February they should be playing 30 mins each. [/QUOTE]

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