UcMiami
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Valid point - but I see her more as a Sims like player than a Simmons type player. Uconn is not a good measuring stick to use for any offensive players game - sometimes they key on another teams best weapon, sometimes they key on everyone else and let one player go off, knowing that one player can't beat them on her own. But in either case their defense is significantly better than any other defense in the country so the results are skewed because their opponent's players and coach just don't see that intensity in the rest of their season. I would say the same about ND - Jefferson for example against ND in her six games looks terrible - four times she has failed to score a point and her A/TO ratio is terrible.Please don't throw anything at me, but I'm not going to join the chorus of praise for Jewel. In both UCONN games this season, her shooting percentage was terrible, it didn't stop her from taking a lot of shots and she took a lot of crazy shots. Unlike KML who, when she was having a bad shooting night, refocused on setting her team mates up, Jewel did not. Is it possible she is just not a great player in the big games? She wouldn't be the first player to have that issue. She didn't really play well in the last 3 or 4 playoff games. It could also just be that the defenses of the better teams were able to key on her.
Jewel with McBride and Achonwa on her team was a very different player to this years version - with the second best player on the team this year being a freshman, Jewel became the offensive force for the team, not dissimilar to Sims last year after Griner left.