Food for thought
While I do believe it will be a challenge for Kim getting players to adjust roles much different from their previous programs... Kim is highly blunt about expectations and what a players role is coming into her program. Flaujae learned the hard way early on when she it campus about selfish basketball play and changed her tune very quickly. These kids have to know if they were to come play under her, they won't be shooting it 30 times a game. Hailey Van Lith 100% knows this. If Morrow comes, she would 100% know she won't be the main star and will be playing with far better players and taking on Ladazhia Williams kind of role next to Reese. If the player can swallow their pride and focus on improving their game and the betterment of the team, I think it will be fine for all parties. Will it be different for some and take some major adjustments? Sure, I think everyone expects that
For the record, I hear a lot that Reese doesn't want to share the basketball. She may have a ego and be full of herself but she passed the ball as much as anyone on the team and was one of the assist leaders. Her assists sky rocketed at LSU
Reese stat:
Maryland Sophomore Season: 48 assists to 81 turnovers
LSU Junior Season: 81 assists to 80 turnovers
I don't know that I have seen a lot of people saying Reese doesn't want to pass the ball so much as she is going to want to take a lot of shots. She took 414 shots a Sophomore and that increased to 560 at LSU.
And I think when you look at the make up of LSU next year it's that they have a lot of scores but relatively inefficient ones that require high volume shooting for their impressive statistical output. And they are a bunch of players great at creating their own shot but no one that is particularly good at creating shots for others. All of that could be fine but it could also all lead to a team that is less than the sum of its parts.
Hailey Van Lith took 623 shots last year
Angel Reese took 560 shots last year
Morrow took 802 shots last year
By comparison the last 4 NPOY total field goal attempts:
2020 Sabrina Ionescu: 421
2021 Paige: 424
2022 Aliyah: 441
2023 Caitlin Clark: 715
The point being, you have three players used to NPOY usage on different teams, agreeing to smaller roles now in the abstract but experiencing that smaller role may not be what they expect.