If you added the two together, you'd come up with what each wants to become - a multidimensional offensive terror at a size that doesn't often see so many dimensions.

"I want to be seen as versatile," said Arnold, who is older, being a junior at Lake Park High School in Roselle, Ill., and more physically developed. "There are not many players my size playing out on the wing. I want to be able to go inside or out."

Plus, "My brother always was a good shooter," Arnold said, "and I guess Dad wanted me to be like him."

Last year, Arnold started down the path to adding the inside dimension to her game, joining the Chicago Hoops Express and working on inside moves with coach Jerald Davis. She also works out with John Waring of Pacesetter Basketball and is starting to work on her upper-body strength with a program called Core One.

Similarly, Johnson works every day on her game, but it's on the kind of stuff Arnold already has. Johnson starts her workouts by shooting short jumpers, works her way to the free-throw line, then takes three-pointers from the corners and the top of the key. The key to improving her shot, she says, is then going out and actually taking it in game situations.

Johnson works so much on her game, she doesn't really watch basketball - the WNBA, NBA or college variety, that is. She's too busy playing.

Likewise, basketball is central to Arnold's existence.

"It's all I do," she said. It's already starting to pay off. On the first day Arnold could, as a junior, start receiving mail from colleges, her family had to go down to the neighborhood post office to retrieve it in bags. Johnson is certain to be similarly showered with letters.

This is whole a game evolves. A building block here; another on top. Next thing you know, you have 6-foot-3 players who will keep you guessing between power moves on the boxes and artistic scores from beyond the three-point stripe

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