Andra Espinoza-Hunter to UConn

[Vowelguy]

what?

1) Year of graduation for each player
2) Number of players each year

 

[j66kicker]

1) Year of graduation for each player
2) Number of players each year

You left out Davis. Or maybe she's a senior in '23?

 

[uconn_nyc]

Congratulations! So happy and excited for Andra Espinoza - Hunter's verbal. These early, high quality verbals are good for my heart and blood pressure. That said I am only 49! I am so looking forward to watching Andra play for UCONN. To those who said UConn's recruiting would drop off in the AAC - NOT so! These top recruits want to play for a WINNER!

Here's an (relatively) oldie but a goodie picture of Andra with the maestro.

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[uconn_nyc]

"These early, high quality verbals are good for my heart and blood pressure. That said I am only 49!"
Being in my mid-fortiesI loved this line!

 

[John Glass]

http://www.fullcourt.com/dave-dagos.../show-and-prove-brings-talent-north-and-south

go to 2017 - sounds like a great player

 

[Sonny44]

what?

ok, I see, thanks.

 

[EricLA]

I'm sort of surprised that the amount of posts is not up close to triple digits. When Dangerfield, Collier, and Samuelson verbaled, it got that high. I think it was close to that even with Irwin and Boykin. Perhaps because this one sort of came out of nowhere? Obviously we knew UCONN was looking at her, but not a lot of recruiting buzz.

I think part of it is no one knows how good she's projected to be... a starter, like Collier/Dangerfield/Samuelson? A key reserve off the bench, like Boykin? Or a role player like Irwin? Clearly we all probably hope she's in the first category - a potential starter. Great to have you on board, Andra! But... Another long name, and AEH does not not roll off the tongue like KML!!

 

[John Glass]

http://blog.ctnews.com/elliott/2014/12/30/espinoza-hunter-knew-time-was-right-to-commit-to-uconn/

Duke or UConn ? ahhh it is a no brainer

 

[stamfordhusky]

I thought she was a bit taller than 5'9". Though maybe I'm just being confused by the perspective or other stuff:

In July, a Blue Star report listed her at 5-11. FWIW.

 

[stamfordhusky]

#4 (or #5 as they have 2 players listed at #1) on Bluestar.

And #6 ASGR.

 

[rbny1]

AEH does not not roll off the tongue like KML!!

It will. Just wait until she starts putting up points at UConn. AEH will sound very sweet.

 

[EricLA]

http://blog.ctnews.com/elliott/2014/12/30/espinoza-hunter-knew-time-was-right-to-commit-to-uconn/

Duke or UConn ? ahhh it is a no brainer

Um... that is a great article. #5 per blue star, #6 per ASGR... and comments like this... from her AAU coach...

“She has a real bright personality and she just likes basketball an awful lot. She likes to workout and she’s one of the top kids in the country and she wants to be pushed. She’s always asking to be pushed and to be worked out and things like that. The kid is not a whiner, a crybaby. You can get on her. She understands. She’s a treasure that kid. She truly is.’’

"She’s one of the top kids in the country. There’s no doubt about it. In that age group. We think she’s the best shooter in that class. And, plus, she has a tough attitude when she plays. She doesn’t like to get beat. She’s (mad) when she loses a game. She’s (mad) when somebody beats her, and she gets challenged a lot. I can tell you from watching her play a lot. Everybody knows who she is. She’s been on everybody’s radar since eighth grade when she played on that really good high school team with Saniya. So everybody knows who she is. She gets challenged a lot by kids like, `Oh, I got this kid. This kid has a big name.’ And she responds to it. She understands. She really gets it."

“She’s known as like a shooter. The kid can really stroke it from deep range. She’s got good size. She’s a workout kid, but she wants to play basketball constantly. She’s just like a long wing. Not a Katie Lou Samuelson long, but she’s a legit 5-11 and she can really stroke it from distance. They targeted these great shooters and they’re getting them, going from Kaleena to Katie Lou and then two years after that to Andra. It makes life a lot easier when you’ve got kids that can really fill it up from the 3 range.’’

 

[Bestiarius]

http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-comme...ore-andra-espinoza-hunter-commits-connecticut

 

[JoePgh]

Didn't realize that she attended the game and gave Geno her verbal commitment immediately after the game. She commented about how UConn continued to play with intensity and focus even after the game outcome was not in doubt, and how the players backed up one another and communicated well.

I was also interested in the comment in one of the evaluations about how, in practice sessions, she gives her full attention to the speaker and makes steady eye contact with the speaker. Not a common trait in 15-year-olds of either gender!

 

[Wally East]

WOOOO! Welcome Andra!

Happy New Year

 

[Sluconn Husky]

The interesting thing to me about Olsen's piece is:

Espinoza-Hunter, who was once ranked among the top five prospects in the 2017 class, had a rough season on the travel circuit in 2013.....

...

She has since joined the Philadelphia Belles travel team -- where current UConn superstar Breanna Stewart used to play -- and transferred to Blair. And now Espinoza-Hunter's stock is soaring.


I hope and assume the latter is true and based on her play at Blair. There are basically no news reports on her from this year.

 

[Storrsbred]

I know no-one knows for sure, but is a young woman the age of AE-H likely to grow any taller in the next couple of years? Any one know how tall her mom and dad are?

 

[MilfordHusky]

I snicker when I read that we have the #3 class in 2015. I really don't think there are any players better than Lou or Napheesa. None. And we have De'Janae too. She's a player as well.

 

[mysticmajor]

Great news!

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Calling this a short highlight would be an understatement, but there is a quick shot of Hunter making a three from her freshmen season at 0:47.

 

[BigBird]

This is really, really, really good!

 

[John Glass]

Calling this a short highlight would be an understatement, but there is a quick shot of Hunter making a three from her freshmen season at 0:47.

short would be the understatement of the year

 

[OneTrickPony]

Hmmm...the movie star looks can't hurt...

 

[pvdoggy]

As I have said in another thread, like kids, a lot of people here seems to get excited about new toys
I remember last year, people can't gush enough about Courtney Ekmark (who could still turns out to be a very good UConn player), but lately many of the same people are basically burying her in the depth chart w/o thinking that she will have much of a chance to show what she can do.

 

[WildEagle]

TO BLAKEON18, the game you speak of was at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy and there is no such place as the Albany Civic Center.
As for Espinoza-Hunter(and no one does not a license to hunt Espinozas) when she left Ossining as an 8th grader she was a good 5'11"
What the rating left out is that the kid is a deadly 3 point shooter. In the big games both years for Ossining the kid shot terribly, in the 2013 State Final Four she ahd at least one 0 for.
She missed everything even layups and free throws, could not have hit water if she was standing in a boat, but in her defense she was a baby at 13 or 14.
Speaking of defense, her one glaring weakness in 8th grade was horrendous defense if one could even call it that.
I would guess that over the past 2 years she has grown physically, mentally and emotionally.
Just hope that when she gets to Uconn Luigi doesn't "Chong" her.