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Three point shooting?  Anna Wilson was 4/8 and Alexa Romano was 5/14.  Not much statistically, but they both looked to me to shoot confidently and accurately when they were in--Anna's release was faster than Alexa's.  I would not be at all surprised if one of them blossoms next year.  At that position they have to be good defenders, and that is harder for me to judge, but I am hoping that Anna will be our next Bri Roberson.  Alexa has always seemed competent on defense to me, but we don't get to see her defending Jordin Canada or Kelsey Plum, so it is hard to say.

As for Fingall, she was thought to be a defensive specialist when she got here and her offense was a nice surprise.  She has excellent control of ball spin which allows her to get baskets from awkward positions directly under the basket.  I also saw her take the ball out near the foul line a couple of times and drive to the basket successfully.  Her moves around the basket were light years ahead of McCall's when McCall was a frosh.  For all of this, Fingall was rewarded with some starts when Kaylee was hurt and before Alanna had come on.  She started against Yale and was 4/4, ASU and went 4/9, then against Arizona and was 4/5, then Oregon where she was 2/6, then the Oregon State loss where she was 5/10, Utah where she was 3/10, then Colorado when she was 0/3 and left for Kaylee.  In all of those her weakness was rebounding compared with Kaylee.  Not sure if that was part of a scheme, but Nadia consistently got low single digits in rebounding, and sometimes no defensive rebounds at all.  Kaylee, by contrast, is our best rebounder but has seldom scored as well as Nadia.  On those rare occasions when Nadia got playing time near the end of the season, something does seem to have changed in her. 

So, I think the starter will depend on whether Nadia's rebounding or Kaylee's offense develops more over the off season.  What we do know is that Tara finished the season by giving Kaylee more time than Nadia, but putting both of them behind Alanna for playing time. 

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Three point shooting?  Anna Wilson was 4/8 and Alexa Romano was 5/14.  Not much statistically, but they both looked to me to shoot confidently and accurately when they were in--Anna's release was faster than Alexa's.  I would not be at all surprised if one of them blossoms next year.  At that position they have to be good defenders, and that is harder for me to judge, but I am hoping that Anna will be our next Bri Roberson.  Alexa has always seemed competent on defense to me, but we don't get to see her defending Jordin Canada or Kelsey Plum, so it is hard to say.

As for Fingall, she was thought to be a defensive specialist when she got here and her offense was a nice surprise.  She has excellent control of ball spin which allows her to get baskets from awkward positions directly under the basket.  I also saw her take the ball out near the foul line a couple of times and drive to the basket successfully.  Her moves around the basket were light years ahead of McCall's when McCall was a frosh.  For all of this, Fingall was rewarded with some starts when Kaylee was hurt and before Alanna had come on.  She started against Yale and was 4/4, ASU and went 4/9, then against Arizona and was 4/5, then Oregon where she was 2/6, then the Oregon State loss where she was 5/10, Utah where she was 3/10, then Colorado when she was 0/3 and left for Kaylee.  In all of those her weakness was rebounding compared with Kaylee.  Not sure if that was part of a scheme, but Nadia consistently got low single digits in rebounding, and sometimes no defensive rebounds at all.  Kaylee, by contrast, is our best rebounder but has seldom scored as well as Nadia.  On those rare occasions when Nadia got playing time near the end of the season, something does seem to have changed in her. 

So, I think the starter will depend on whether Nadia's rebounding or Kaylee's offense develops more over the off season.  What we do know is that Tara finished the season by giving Kaylee more time than Nadia, but putting both of them behind Alanna for playing time.