Or sit on the bench & watch Liv/Hannah/Soni play a lot of minutes

Olsen is a combo guard and could back up the 1 or the 2. Both Cass and Emma could easily rotate to the 3 if needed.

Outside of the starters, there isn't a lot of guard depth off the bench now. I still don't feel Cass is a true "guard" but more of a wing. Sometimes it feels like Cass is stretch four trying to be a guard and ballhandling is not her strength.

Also it's possible Cass's injury might carry into next season and Niele wants some insurance. She doesn't want to be left without enough ballhandlers like when she had to have Soni and KK play out of position.

to be a guard. When she develops a consistent outside shot that would make sense.

At this point she would help balance the team need for forwards.

There's the position that they want to play and there's the position that college teams need them to play. They might be able to be "big guards" in the WNBA but in college they are forwards. And that's where they will get the most NIL.

Walking boot injury has unfortunately slowed down development

performance needs to develop, on the offensive end mostly. I also think she is misplaced as a guard. Her athletic ability would surface more around the basket as a forward. Closer to the basket would lend itself to her ability to rebound and then score off put backs.