[2006alum]

Great thoughts and ideas everyone. What about the following starting 5:
(5) Kayl
(4) Nadia
(3) Alanna
(2) Britt
(1) Marta

Both Britt and Alanna can be threats inside and outside, and Marta has great passing skills, so we could take it to the basket or pass inside to either Nadia or Kayl. That lineup gives us 3 6'3" players so we can exploit height and a rebounding edge. We lose a little bit of speed and defensive prowess against fast guards (which will be especially challenging against UCLA without Bri and Karlie), and also a some of perimeter offense, but I could see some advantages to having both Kayl and Nadia in at the same time, because they complement each other's skill sets really nicely: Kayl is slightly better on defense, and Nadia better on offense. Then Britt and Alanna are our main offensive threats from anywhere on the floor, with Marta to run the show and (hopefully) develop a little more shooting prowess from long distance herself.

By mid-season, I could see Carrington having the potential to be really good, and Kiana and Anna cracking the lineup so that we have two true guards at the 1 and 2, but it seems like given Kayl's defensive edge around the basket and experience as a senior, we might want her starting over Carrington and taking some of the pressure off of Nadia to do everything underneath the basket. Alanna is too versatile to spend all of her time posting up, so for a lot of our sets it would be just Nadia, and I think she'll need more experience before she'll be fully confident doing that.

I'll be curious to find out:
1. Is Anna medical red-shirting? She only played 6 games, so it seems like she's qualified to?
2. Will Brewer remain on the team? I know she had injury issues and wasn't traveling with the team, but it seems like there must be something more than that going on.

Here's the interesting thing we will have 15 players not 13 like this season which without Wilson and Brewer has really been 11. 

We lose three (Bird, Karlie, and Bri) and gain four. If we had 13, shouldn't that put us at 14 now? Am I missing count of someone? I had assumed we would have one open spot so that next year's recruiting class could be the twins + a post player, since we only lose two (Britt and Kayl). Otherwise it's just the twins barring a change of plans with Brewer.

[2006alum]

Great thoughts and ideas everyone. What about the following starting 5:
(5) Kayl
(4) Nadia
(3) Alanna
(2) Britt
(1) Marta

Both Britt and Alanna can be threats inside and outside, and Marta has great passing skills, so we could take it to the basket or pass inside to either Nadia or Kayl. That lineup gives us 3 6'3" players so we can exploit height and a rebounding edge. We lose a little bit of speed and defensive prowess against fast guards (which will be especially challenging against UCLA without Bri and Karlie), and also a some of perimeter offense, but I could see some advantages to having both Kayl and Nadia in at the same time, because they complement each other's skill sets really nicely: Kayl is slightly better on defense, and Nadia better on offense. Then Britt and Alanna are our main offensive threats from anywhere on the floor, with Marta to run the show and (hopefully) develop a little more shooting prowess from long distance herself.

By mid-season, I could see Carrington having the potential to be really good, and Kiana and Anna cracking the lineup so that we have two true guards at the 1 and 2, but it seems like given Kayl's defensive edge around the basket and experience as a senior, we might want her starting over Carrington and taking some of the pressure off of Nadia to do everything underneath the basket. Alanna is too versatile to spend all of her time posting up, so for a lot of our sets it would be just Nadia, and I think she'll need more experience before she'll be fully confident doing that.

I'll be curious to find out:
1. Is Anna medical red-shirting? She only played 6 games, so it seems like she's qualified to?
2. Will Brewer remain on the team? I know she had injury issues and wasn't traveling with the team, but it seems like there must be something more than that going on.

Here's the interesting thing we will have 15 players not 13 like this season which without Wilson and Brewer has really been 11. 

We lose three (Bird, Karlie, and Bri) and gain four. If we had 13, shouldn't that put us at 14 now? Am I missing count of someone? I had assumed we would have one open spot so that next year's recruiting class could be the twins + a post player, since we only lose two (Britt and Kayl). Otherwise it's just the twins barring a change of plans with Brewer.