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All about Paige Bueckers Vol 2

pvdoggy said:
Me think that when Paige drives to the basket against people like ONO in college, she is going to get a few of those shots swatted down.
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How many bigs on defense are like ONO?

Secondly, that big better not break away from ONO to early otherwise Paige won't bother to shot. She'll have 6'4 target to throw to.

And at that point the big won't know if she is going to pass or shoot.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
Hopkins and Paige Bueckers will be streamed Saturday night at 7 PM central at the link below:

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Just watched a replay of the game. Hopkins won 97-79. The star of the game was Adalia McKenzie of Park Center who had 42 points in a loss. She shot 12-13 for 27 points in the 1st half. McKenzie has a college-ready body and enough speed to get behind the Hopkins defenders in transition a half dozen times. PC just couldn't match up to Hopkins' size. Bueckers was Bueckers. Watching her play an entire game against a good opponent you see everything wrong she does, something those highlights never shows. There is never much but tonight her one-on-one defense would not have earned AA. She picked up 4 fouls guarding McKenzie. But she also looked like the next pg for UConn. Her 30 points came mostly off drives and mid-range jumpers. She consistently found open shooters and had quite a few rebounds in the game. A game worth watching.
 
Alydar said:
Just watched a replay of the game. Hopkins won 97-79. The star of the game was Adalia McKenzie of Park Center who had 42 points in a loss. She shot 12-13 for 27 points in the 1st half. McKenzie has a college-ready body and enough speed to get behind the Hopkins defenders in transition a half dozen times. PC just couldn't match up to Hopkins' size. Bueckers was Bueckers. Watching her play an entire game against a good opponent you see everything wrong she does, something those highlights never shows. There is never much but tonight her one-on-one defense would not have earned AA. She picked up 4 fouls guarding McKenzie. But she also looked like the next pg for UConn. Her 30 points came mostly off drives and mid-range jumpers. She consistently found open shooters and had quite a few rebounds in the game. A game worth watching.
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I tried watching, but the video would freeze after 20 seconds or so. I gave up after a few attempts. Thanks for the report!

McKenzie was averaging 31.6 ppg as of last week. She is reportedly the top Minnesota player in the Class of 2021. HoopGurlz does not have her in their top 60 nationally.
 
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pvdoggy said:
Me think that when Paige drives to the basket against people like ONO in college, she is going to get a few of those shots swatted down.
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I sense she will be more than smart enough to adjust her game accordingly based upon her opponent's strengths/weaknesses.
 
So, I would say Hopkins would place second behind UConn in the AAC. ;)

One thing that I do not understand is that apparently their are National Tournaments that can decide the best HS teams but MN does not let their teams participate? :eek::eek::eek::confused::confused::confused:

Can some one explain how this is possible and what is the 'logic' behind that?
 
MilfordHusky said:
I tried watching, but the video would freeze after 20 seconds or so. I gave up after a few attempts. Thanks for the report!

McKenzie was averaging 31.6 ppg as of last week. She is reportedly the top Minnesota player in the Class of 2021. HoopGurlz does not have her in their top 60 nationally.
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MilfordHusky said:
I tried watching, but the video would freeze after 20 seconds or so. I gave up after a few attempts. Thanks for the report!

McKenzie was averaging 31.6 ppg as of last week. She is reportedly the top Minnesota player in the Class of 2021. HoopGurlz does not have her in their top 60 nationally.
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The game is on YouTube. I watched the entire game. Adalia McKenzie is a baller. Game recognize game! Paige and Adalia hugged, afterwards. I have to say that both teams were “gassed” in the 2nd half. Most of the turnovers committed was due to lazy passes because they were fatigued - especially, the BIGS from Hopkins. I expected them to dominate the inside at will. PC was very scrappy.
 
I watched the game. There is no way there are sixty juniors better than Adalia MeKenzie. The announcers said McKenzie doesn't have a position. Whatever. There is no room in the inn for her at UConn but just about everybody else does. She would start for Lindsay Whalen the minute she stepped on the Minnesota campus.
 
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Thanks for posting the game Slu!

Both players - Paige and Adalia were tremendous though at the end not much highlights. I thought the color commentator missed out on how great Paige's 1st half was as well however ( he mentioned a few times how great Adalia was-- and ofc she was.) . Though he did say she was terrific. He was complimentary to both - but he made some comments - just wanted to add to his. Paige was amazing too.

She had 17 points and at least 6 assists and just 1 T/O at halftime and I thought I heard him say that Adalia "did a pretty nice job on her"early in 2nd half speaking of the 1st half. Further early in 2nd half he mentioned that Paige "usually has more assists" referencing or implying Park Center's defense was affecting Paige somewhat in 1st the half.

I think though he forgot that early in the game that Paige had 4 assists in the 1st 6:15 as both teams were playing at a hectic pace.

Her 1st half was spectacular too. So when the color commentator spoke of "a pretty nice job" - Paige shot 6-10 from the floor (hitting a 3, Overall an EFG% of 65%) with 17 points and having 6 assists with just 1 T/O. Well other stats in 1st half for Paige were 6 rebounds at halftime as well. That's half-way to a triple-double for points, assists and rebounds with just 1 T/O.. And oh- by the way - she had 3 steals too.

Both were tremendous.
 
The announcer said when Paige goes to UConn, as a freshman she will be one of the top 15 or 20 players in the country. He said he didn't know what Geno could teach her. How about defense? Her man, McKenzie scored 40 points. Paige still has a lot to learn.
 
ballhawk said:
The announcer said when Paige goes to UConn, as a freshman she will be one of the top 15 or 20 players in the country. He said he didn't know what Geno could teach her. How about defense? Her man, McKenzie scored 40 points. Paige still has a lot to learn.
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That wasn't "her man" all the time. Sure her D will have to get better. And he did mention later that she needs to get stronger.

But in terms of McKenizie scoring -
1-- Sometimes she scored off someone else in halfcourt.
2-- Sometimes she scored in while Paige was in a zone.
3-- Sometimes she stole the ball or teammates did which resulted in her getting a wide open layups.
4-- Sometimes during fastbreaks Park City ran - they have numbers whether 2 on 1 break or 3 on 2 etc-- so at that point one-on-one defense doesn't matter.

She got a lot of points off of fastbreaks and steals that weren't Paige's "fault." Buy yeah Paige's D I'm sure needs work - and yeah McKenzie played one awesome game.
 
There are not enough superlatives to completely describe Paige’s game. Poise, vision, leadership are just a few that come to mind. But Paige will need to be a better defensive player at UConn. She needs to work harder on defense, get back on defense in transition and improve her defensive stance.

I’m not particularly worried though. I observed the same deficiencies last year in the 4 HS games I watched Aubrey play, and look what kind of defender she has become at UConn. In Paige and Aubrey’s defense, it’s not easy to have the ball in your hands all the time on offense and also play shutdown defense, particularly in HS where very few players develop college level defensive skills.
 
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oldude said:
There are not enough superlatives to completely describe Paige’s game. Poise, vision, leadership are just a few that come to mind. But Paige will need to be a better defensive player at UConn. She needs to work harder on defense, get back on defense in transition and improve her defensive stance.

I’m not particularly worried though. I observed the same deficiencies last year in the 4 HS games I watched Aubrey play, and look what kind of defender she has become at UConn. In Paige and Aubrey’s defense, it’s not easy to have the ball in your hands all the time on offense and also play shutdown defense, particularly in HS where very few players develop college level defensive skills.
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Yeah. I think the things Geno will complain about initially is Paige's defense (as in "Can we get some defense from Ms. All Everything", or "I guess we only got the offensive AA/we need to see the defensive AA" or maybe he'll just pull out another chair), her need to get stronger and her conditioning. Believe me, she will take that stuff to heart and improve considerably by March 2021. But I don't see her taking the WCBB world by storm on day one. However, Fudd may be a different story.
 
JordyG said:
Yeah. I think the things Geno will complain about initially is Paige's defense (as in "Can we get some defense from Ms. All Everything", or "I guess we only got the offensive AA/we need to see the defensive AA" or maybe he'll just pull out another chair), her need to get stronger and her conditioning. Believe me, she will take that stuff to heart and improve considerably by March 2021. But I don't see her taking the WCBB world by storm on day one. However, Fudd may be a different story.
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Geno will also have the ability to sit Paige down and insert Nika in the lineup. That should get her attention.
 
JordyG said:
Yeah. I think the things Geno will complain about initially is Paige's defense (as in "Can we get some defense from Ms. All Everything", or "I guess we only got the offensive AA/we need to see the defensive AA" or maybe he'll just pull out another chair), her need to get stronger and her conditioning. Believe me, she will take that stuff to heart and improve considerably by March 2021. But I don't see her taking the WCBB world by storm on day one. However, Fudd may be a different story.
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In spite of her exceptional skills the two most important traits I have seen in Bueckers are her competitiveness and her confidence. And when those two traits are coupled with the skills she has learned and her physical talent you have a special player. If Geno tells her she will never be great until she is a great defender she will take it as a challenge. Fudd is another exceptional player and always seems to shoot just a bit better, but in the few games the two have played against each other it's Buecker's team that wins.
While several Huskies have had great freshman years only Moore "took the world by storm day one". It just isn't the UConn system. Geno's players adapt to his offense, they don't get an offense designed for their game. Fudd could go to any number of elite schools and be an all-time high scorer and a multi-year NPOY or she can choose UConn and be part of a legendary team. And I'd wager that's the pitch UConn uses and that appeals to so many No 1 recruits.
 
Paige is going to be an impact player immediately her freshman year. I can remember when Maya 1st came she would say she couldn't believe how good the guards were. Paige will be opposite - she won't believe the scorers she has that surround her.

And over the last few years because of a weak bench and small guards I didn't feel they could press. Now they can. Her size for a pg is awesome.
 
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MilfordHusky said:
I tried watching, but the video would freeze after 20 seconds or so. I gave up after a few attempts. Thanks for the report!

McKenzie was averaging 31.6 ppg as of last week. She is reportedly the top Minnesota player in the Class of 2021. HoopGurlz does not have her in their top 60 nationally.
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@MilfordHusky re the video freezing after twenty seconds. If you have been to Minnesota in January, you would know that nearly everything freezes after twenty seconds or so . ;)
 
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