I think 1st pick should be Loyd. Though I haven't seen the Minny kid. What I don't like is if Seattle were to take AZ with 1st pick then take KML for 3rd pick. You'd have an extremely slow team from what I hear of AZ.
Regarding Loyd, if she is 2nd pick- Tulsa has a strange setup at the 1,2 3 spots. Maybe trade on of them in some type of package for Ogwumike? Parker and Ogwumike don't seem to jell well. Though with Agler as the coach, I'm probably all wet. Anyhow Loyd goes to Tulsa if AZ taken.
I think this year how teams draft AZ vs Loyd and where KML will go to and where Stokes will go to - it's all fascinating to me. Do you go big with AZ? General rule go with size? I wouldn't. My personal view - I think sometimes size gets overrated a lot.
I think the usage factor stuff is blown way out of proportion.
I'm fascinated to who KML will hook up with and how the greatest shooter in UCONN history will perform.
And I'm fascinated to see where KS will get picked, - and if the greatest defender in UCONN History can prove her critics -- of those he Doris Burke's who claim on Nat'l TV and another article I read the myth that "no one is guarding her." She is though 6'3 not 6'5 though a marvelous athlete with long arms but not real "big." On offense can she finish in the lane when a penetrator dumps her the ball and she'll meet some resistance from other bigs with size - when they try to help and recover?
Bottomline is we have two players from UCONN that were part of a team that has been unbelievably dominant in which certain aspects of the game -- the WNBA suppsoeldy doesn't value as much these parts of the game -- yet these particular two were unreal in their specific strengths. In a strange way- its's like--> "can UCONN impose it's will upon the WNBA" which would cause the evaluators to "throw out the stat book" when evaluating UCONN players?
The draft is one thing- then play on the court is the other. Fascinating!
