[TheFarm07]

That was a fun read to look back (wistfully!). Funny how at the time we were oversaturated with bigs and needed more wings and guards. Now we have the opposite problem - we've had a steady pipeline of short, speedy guards from Amber to Lili to Marta to Anna and now Kiana. And we've had lots of great wings/shooting guards: Bonnie, Karlie, McPhee, Alanna. But we've really been hurting underneath the basket on offense. I really do wonder how different things would have looked over the past four years had Beebe not had to medically retire.

I was just thinking the same thing. We had Appel and then the Ogwumike sisters so our star players were in the post and our very noticeable weakness was our lack of agile productive guards as painfully exposed in our national semifinal loss to Texas A&M in 2011.

Now we have a pipeline of speedy guards with the potential to score, but we are losing the battle inside. The last couple years we have given the opposition too many second chances with offensive rebounds. I'm hoping Fingall will help with that aspect and maybe we can find a post with the ability to start either with our mystery 4th recruit or someone in the 2018 class.

[TheFarm07]

That was a fun read to look back (wistfully!). Funny how at the time we were oversaturated with bigs and needed more wings and guards. Now we have the opposite problem - we've had a steady pipeline of short, speedy guards from Amber to Lili to Marta to Anna and now Kiana. And we've had lots of great wings/shooting guards: Bonnie, Karlie, McPhee, Alanna. But we've really been hurting underneath the basket on offense. I really do wonder how different things would have looked over the past four years had Beebe not had to medically retire.

I was just thinking the same thing. We had Appel and then the Ogwumike sisters so our star players were in the post and our very noticeable weakness was our lack of agile productive guards as painfully exposed in our national semifinal loss to Texas A&M in 2011.

Now we have a pipeline of speedy guards with the potential to score, but we are losing the battle inside. The last couple years we have given the opposition too many second chances with offensive rebounds. I'm hoping Fingall will help with that aspect and maybe we can find a post with the ability to start either with our mystery 4th recruit or someone in the 2018 class.