Dungee will be good. Llanusa can take us to a Final Four. But, Mulkey..........Mulkey could change basketball. I don't worry about her size.. She has some agility, and she is stronger than she looks. But, everything changes when she comes on to the floor. When you watch a lead disappear and become a ten-point deficit when she goes to the bench with fouls, only to have it become a ten-point lead when she comes back in, you see how she impacts a game. Her team was toast against Dallas Skyline, just as Lauren Cox's Flower Mound team had been. But, when Nancy was on the floor, they were inept.
With Nancy on the floor, her guards can run. Without her, they couldn't hit a shot. The other team could do well as long as they shot threes. They were totally reluctant to shoot inside. In AAU, she did the same thing. She blocked shots.
It is just flat difficult to get the ball over someone who is 6-9, maybe taller. Her arms seem another 6-9. She can guard both sides of the lane without moving. She has so much reach. She doesn't need to block down where she would get fouls. She just needs to put her hands out there where the ball is coming. Mostly, she just needs to be there. They'll make mistakes on their own, like taking really stupid shots or shooting all threes.
I suspect that the only difficulty that Nancy will have will be officials. In the State Playoffs, they called some really bad fouls on her to keep her off the floor. I doubt that anyone else would have been called for about three of those. Still, they couldn't beat her. She just makes people do dumb things.
