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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5058792, member: 12088"] I’m returning to your thoughtful post this morning. I take your point. There are more quick bigs than in the past. Some who might play almost as a guard. The most obvious case is Barker, though she doesn’t have the perimeter game to do it yet. I’d include Aaliyah Edwards and a Dorka Juhasz as being on the margins of it. Dorka didn’t really have the handles that Aaliyah did. But either of them could drive to the hoop from the perimeter and this was a huge asset for them. And Aaliyah was useful in breaking the press. Fournier definitely has those skills though, like Barker, her midrange and perimeter shot needs work. Is Timea Gardner another case of a quick big? I’ve been rewatching videos of her games — they’re hard to find btw — and she is quicker than I remember. Brink ought to have been quicker than she ever really seemed to be. Perhaps her foot speed is deceptive. But her midrange game is excellent. And she was never a muscle player. If she had better handles, she’d have the closest skill set to Breanna Stewart today. Joyce Edwards looks quick to me. And a strong rebounder. She just needs the rest of the guard skills to fill out the package. I’m tempted to include Cass Prosper in the list, though she’s not as big as many bigs. But she is quick and runs the floor well. And the ultimate outlier in this group is Juju, who has near-big size but is one of the guards to ever play the game. Quickness, smooth moves outside and in. She merely lacks the bulk to muscle up with the traditional bigs. Thanks for opening my eyes to how many speedy bigs are coming along these days. [/QUOTE]

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