youcancallmeAl
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I think where the big situation comes in for players and playing time is at the three and four where we have Jackson, Suarez, Pissott, Puckett, Striplin, Darby and Franklin and possibly even Horston even though I expect her to play a lot at the two. That is seven players vying for time at two positions. I think I feel fairly confident that it will be Key and Hollingshead at the five and Powell, Miles, and maybe some Walker at the point. I think we may see Walker moving to the two where she will be in competition with Wynn and Horston more than likely.
All the girls that were already here look physically fit and much improved over their last season. If Franklin is totally recovered from her ACL going to be hard to keep her out of the lineup. Jackson, Horston, Powell, and Key are givens and Puckett seems to be the sixth man with Walker possibly starting at the two just because she is experienced and a starter last season. Miles is going to backup the point and Hollingshead the five so there are nine players. Suarez, Striplin, Darby, Wynn, and Pissott seem to be the five on the outside that will be vying for any additional minutes. That is just the way it looks right now we could have some surprises for sure. Whomever ends up on the bench will be purely because of numbers at certain positions because all these girls have developed into confident and excellent basketball players going into this next season.
The ability to have the depth to exhaust and fatigue most teams seems evident to me. This is the most quality depth I've seen on a Tennessee team in years.
If I'm Kellie, I would absolutely run opponents into the ground with full court pressure, and a very uptempo halfcourt offense and defense with frequent substitutions, always keeping fresh players in there as the opponent fights fatigue. I think she has enough replaceable parts to do that without sacrificing quality of play. I could see her using twelve or more for the very points you bring up - so many quality player possibilities at so many positions. We have three, maybe four who can play the 5, and so many who can play the 4 and the 3 - as you mentioned - and four or five possible PG's and so many who can play the 2.