Video: Geno Auriemma, Bob Knight discussing Brittney Griner  Bob
Knight discusses what impresses him about Baylor Lady Bears
center Brittney Griner; Geno Auriemma likens her to UCLA men's
basketball great Lew Alcindor.  I've never liked the comparisons
of Brittney Griner to Wilt Chamberlain, even as an analogical
comparison.  Wilt was a powerful presence on the basketball,
who, in the words of Yago Colas, "...was blessed (or cursed)
with a powerful physical presence which he used to neglect team
play.”  Griner was never quite that type of presence.
Defensively, her shot blocking has transformed the way that
teams approach the game, with most retreating to the 3-point
line and occasionally getting hot enough to challenge the Lady
Bears or having a big who can step out in space and force Griner
away from the basket. Yet when she entered college basketball
she lacked the strength to establish position in the paint and
even now she doesn't crash the offensive boards in quite the way
you'd expect from a player of