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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3619382, member: 1220"] In response to the statement by some posters that Uconn fans not believed she underachieved or did not believe she did not play to her potential in her freshman year, many of you seem to have poor memories. Their expectations for her were through the roof. After her freshman season many declared that she would hreak out and fullfill her potential in her soph year. I have an entirely different take on CW. I felt her best trait was her BBIQ. This in my eyes made her an opportunist who took advantage of what ever openings the defense gave her. This is what I saw her do during her most productive games. It is what she did in the McD All Star Game and also what she did against ND. She had good skills but her limitations were physical and that is why she is spending this off season raising her physical ceiling. We shall see how that works out. Too many fans only find value in players who can take over games and do not realize that what a player does when they are not dominating the ball or scoring is also very important. Making good decisions helps the team. You can not have a team filled with ball dominant scorers. The reason I quoted my own previous post was because I posted it by accident before I could finish and put it in context with my other statements. A player is what his average performance says he is. Every player has really good games and also conversely bad ones. What they are is what their average game reflects. You can not juge a players subpar games not should you judge them on their best games either. There best games are not always a measure of their potential. They might be a measure of what they might produce on any given day but certainly not what we should expect from them every day. We also need to consider the circumstances under which those games happened. Again I believe and recognize that CW is a smart player. She realized she needed to up her physical ceiling. We shall see how this works out for her. You can not do much about quickness but your certainly can increase your strength and leaping ability via weight training. You can do well enough even if you are not that fast or quick as long as you have a quick first step and employ deception. [/QUOTE]

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