SOME PREVIEWS COME TO ME IN DREAMS. THIS IS ONE I'D LIKE TO DREAM EVERY NIGHT! KIKI'S ABOUT TO EXPLODE AND SHOCK THE PAC12!!

Many of us Cardinal women's basketball fans wonder during the interminable off season, what surprises await us when October finally rolls around. Which players have made major basketball breakthroughs and which have added new effective dimensions to their game. 

As those of you who read this blog from time to time know - I sometimes foresee those breakthroughs and added dimensions in my dreams - and share them with you before the dream fades. And lately I've been dreaming . . . big time.

Kiki Iriafen came to me in a dream recently accompanied by three great Candaces to show me why, in the middle of her Junior season, the WNBA will have scouts behind the Stanford bench filling clipboards to describe the many ways Kiki has of getting her twenty points every game.  

If you look over the scouts' shoulders at what they're writing, they'll probably be calling her the new Candace Duprey, because, just like Ms. Duprey, against Griner-sized defenders, she hits 60% of her new explosive, but soft, high-arcing right and left-handed jump-hooks from five feet out and closer. And you can tell she's been reading Coach Wooden's book, because she scores off the backboard on most of her hooks. From five feet out to fifteen she hits 55% of her mid-range jump-shots with a high release a la Candace Parker. And from behind the arc she hits 40% of her new three-point shots like Stanford's own Candice Wiggins.

But that's not all. Not by a long shot. Now she attacks off the bounce! So, shotblockers beware! Her ball-fakes are so lethal, you find yourself hanging in mid-air, while she gets to the hoop with one long dribble and two long strides, or a spin move to an unguarded hook. And don't foul her because she now hits 80% of her free-throws.  

Someone in the crowd yells out, "Whatever happened to Betts?" Someone else answers, "She left. But thank God Kiki stayed!"

Since that dream, I can't wait to watch Ms. Iriafen explode all over the PAC12 next season. And I can't wait to have my next dream preview.

LET'S GO CARDINAL! LET'S SHOCK THE WBB WORLD AND WIN THE WHOLE SHEBANG IN '24!