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lara somfai's game reminds me of alanna smith. they are both 6'4", have similar sturdy builds, can drive, post-up, or shoot the 3; and there are very few players who can dominate either with size alone.

for most of each game, stanford usually plays one pg, 2 wings, and 2 forward/posts though that can vary with the opponent; and, i suppose, kate may eventually stray from tara's approach.

I think we may see three PGs (Hailee, Chloe and Shay) in at the same time on occasion this year. 

Regarding the earlier comments about Kennedy, there was one clip from a scrimmage earlier in the summer that showed Kennedy with an impressive spin move as she was driving toward the basket from the FT line.  Very impressive stuff.  I looked and couldn’t find it, but I’ll look some more. That and a couple of other snippets of video have me thinking she is a lot more aggressive, confident, fluid and nimble this year.

Here is the spin move (with a nice lefty finish too!) from Kennedy Umeh about 43 seconds in. I can’t imagine her attempting anything remotely like that last year.
https://x.com/stanfordwbb/status/1948584...nINJ7VK5yA

[bl82]

lara somfai's game reminds me of alanna smith. they are both 6'4", have similar sturdy builds, can drive, post-up, or shoot the 3; and there are very few players who can dominate either with size alone.

for most of each game, stanford usually plays one pg, 2 wings, and 2 forward/posts though that can vary with the opponent; and, i suppose, kate may eventually stray from tara's approach.

I think we may see three PGs (Hailee, Chloe and Shay) in at the same time on occasion this year. 

Regarding the earlier comments about Kennedy, there was one clip from a scrimmage earlier in the summer that showed Kennedy with an impressive spin move as she was driving toward the basket from the FT line.  Very impressive stuff.  I looked and couldn’t find it, but I’ll look some more. That and a couple of other snippets of video have me thinking she is a lot more aggressive, confident, fluid and nimble this year.

Here is the spin move (with a nice lefty finish too!) from Kennedy Umeh about 43 seconds in. I can’t imagine her attempting anything remotely like that last year.
https://x.com/stanfordwbb/status/1948584...nINJ7VK5yA