Good to hear about Lexie and Wilson - and it's really too bad for Sniezek that she's spending so much of her senior year on the bench with an injury.
BobK, no one disputes that Pohlen largely played the point after JJ was dismissed from the team in spring 2010, nor that she was an exceptional, top top player. But that still left us with 4 starter-worthy players (Ogwumikes x2, Pedersen and Pohlen) to fill 5 spots, so either the 1 or the 2 was not going to be filled by Pohlen. And Tara herself said that Pohlen was "not necessarily a born point guard" - she was visibly uncomfortable with press defenses, and Texas A&M exploited that: Pohlen had 7 turnovers in that game against Texas A&M, and if memory serves Tara had Murphy run the point after Pohlen had three turnovers in the first 5 or 6 minutes, simply to get the ball up the floor - Murphy played 27 minutes that game, the highest all season vs. an average of 8 per game. Yes, the phantom foul and having Pohlen on the bench hurt us in the end, but the game was only close at all because we had 22 turnovers and struggled at the 1 all game (and because Chiney fouled out in only 22 minutes).
To bring this back to my original point, it is simply that we didn't have a complete team at the 1-5 that year, and it's the reason we didn't lift the trophy when we should have. So the worry with Brown is the same one we've all had with Sniezek - no matter how good of a ball handler she is, if she won't take jump shots from behind the arc or inside it, it really hurts our offensive performance.
BobK, no one disputes that Pohlen largely played the point after JJ was dismissed from the team in spring 2010, nor that she was an exceptional, top top player. But that still left us with 4 starter-worthy players (Ogwumikes x2, Pedersen and Pohlen) to fill 5 spots, so either the 1 or the 2 was not going to be filled by Pohlen. And Tara herself said that Pohlen was "not necessarily a born point guard" - she was visibly uncomfortable with press defenses, and Texas A&M exploited that: Pohlen had 7 turnovers in that game against Texas A&M, and if memory serves Tara had Murphy run the point after Pohlen had three turnovers in the first 5 or 6 minutes, simply to get the ball up the floor - Murphy played 27 minutes that game, the highest all season vs. an average of 8 per game. Yes, the phantom foul and having Pohlen on the bench hurt us in the end, but the game was only close at all because we had 22 turnovers and struggled at the 1 all game (and because Chiney fouled out in only 22 minutes).
To bring this back to my original point, it is simply that we didn't have a complete team at the 1-5 that year, and it's the reason we didn't lift the trophy when we should have. So the worry with Brown is the same one we've all had with Sniezek - no matter how good of a ball handler she is, if she won't take jump shots from behind the arc or inside it, it really hurts our offensive performance.