Re: what the team lacks. [by the way, nice solid win for the seniors}.
A]. We are not a "thug" team who can bash you physically and repair errors by just rebounding your brains out. These are the teams which often win NCAA championships [guys or gals]. We, as we are too well aware, survive on the boards, not dominate [vs elite teams]. This almost always will stop you sooner or later. Turner gives us shot-blocking without being a thug, so we have a rim protector, but the muscle isn't there. Can Reimer and Westbeld put it on? Taya seems to possibly have the attitude to be a banger, but I doubt that Turner will ever play that way. Almost all the ACC teams have multiple thugs.
B]. Turnovers: we still make too many. We are a high octane offense with "Princeton" cuts and interior passing, so we take fast-action risks, and therefore will make some turnovers as expected, but we are still a bit too high on this. One of our deficits is that we really have only one accomplished ballhandler [Allen]. Most really good teams have two excellent ones on the floor, or at least can lineup with two when the occasion demands. Jewell Loyd is not an elite ballhandler despite her wonderful numbers of assists. She gets those by terrorizing the defenders and drawing two or three people to her, utterly unbalancing defenses, and leaving teammates wide open. Effective and desired, yes, but not a great handler in the normal situations of the game. Maybe Mychal Johnson can become this. We at least need that threat to give Lindsay quality minutes off.
C]. Although we have our moments, we are not really a consistent three point bombing threat vs quality opponents. Mabrey is supposed to be our zonecracker, and early on she was, but no one has looked this way down the stretch. Jewell, Michaela, and Madison all could develop into this by next season --- I've seen it, it's confidence with a lot of repetition of squaring up, getting feet set, and not thinking about it. Sometimes a good shortrange shooter will just explode in range.
Our team's secret weapon, who will not graduate, is Coach Muffet. She installs wonderful movement offense, non-egocentered passing, good conditioning, and hard effort. The girls supply athleticism and varying skills, and together they go a long way --- usually to the final four. To actually hold the trophy in a world which includes the Alabama-equivalent-recruit-exactly-who-you-want Connecticut, we need either to become devastating bombers or inside bangers to add to the elite stuff we already have. This group COULD do that, and even do it on a given night THIS year, but we don't do it yet with enough consistency to win the NCAA.