Sherrone Vails is our only true center, and she is 6-4. She is a 5th year senior, and all I can say is "bless her heart". She does not start and likely will not start. Walz seems to play a lot of power forward types. Hammond (6-2), Emmonnie Henderson (6-1) Shawnta Dyer and freshman Myisha Hines-Allen 6-1 and 6-2). I am not sure if that is a product of his liking, or if he can not get a true center in here. It has been the one thing that Louisville fans continue to nag him about. Walz is quite accessible to the fan base and his sarcastic answer is usually "do you want a 6-2 kid who can play and bang around in the post or a 6-6 kid who is going to ride the bench?" You can't coach height, true, but height for height's sake doesn't help much either.
We are getting DeGrate and Fuehring next year. Not sure what to expect of them. DeGrate looks big and not as mobile as Walz's type of play would warrant. Fuehring is a past teammate of Hines-Allen. If she is close to the same caliber as Hines-Allen, we are in for a treat. Time will tell on these two.
That being said even without a true center, we have some very, very strong and powerful 4's. I thing our final score last night was 85, 72 of those points were in the paint. We are not going to be a 3pt threat this year but we have a compliment of 6 players that can really take the contact down low. Again, we will know more after the aforementioned 3 games.
