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Don't know where things stand with her on UCONN but Riley Stack might come back into play now that Toomey has chosen the Tar Heals. Noticeable improve in her game as a Junior. She is still is doing too much ball handling for my liking but very very impressive work with the off hand. This girl has a legit off hand jump hook. Very rare at even the collegiate level.


WOW! It's like someone said she CAN'T go to the left as a right-handed player. This would be video evidence to the contrary! I particularly liked the double-spin move to collapse the defense, and the pass for the 3-pt assist....

Very calm and creative. Keeps the ball up away from the defense. The short, crisp left-handed hook shot is a thing of beauty....

Hopefully, she will commit to UCONN before Thanksgiving...
 
Don't know where things stand with her on UCONN but Riley Stack might come back into play now that Toomey has chosen the Tar Heals. Noticeable improve in her game as a Junior. She is still is doing too much ball handling for my liking but very very impressive work with the off hand. This girl has a legit off hand jump hook. Very rare at even the collegiate level.


We are DOOMED!!!! [better than being Domed of course... :cool: ]

:eek::eek::eek:Just took a look at the USA Basketball clips on Riley Stack:

  • Plays AAU for the SC 76ers who are coached by former University of South Carolina captain Asia Dozier.
Personal Notes

  • Born and raised in Tennessee.
  • Daughter to Ryan Stack who played basketball at University of South Carolina (1994-98) and was a second-round pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1998. He also played in Greece where he was a five-time all-star
rest at the link: Riley Stack
 
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I NEED commitment news! Despair is setting in after our latest recruitment news.
not pleased either...........the remaining '23 recruits are a complete wildcard..........I can't sense that any of them are UConn leans.........frankly same goes for '24 recruits.......doesn't mean they're not coming, just that usually we get a good feeling about a few of them ahead of the decision.........on the other hand, prospective leans sometimes change their minds as we've seen recently....:(
 
We are DOOMED!!!! [better than being Domed of course... :cool: ]

:eek::eek::eek:Just took a look at the USA Basketball clips on Riley Stack:

  • Plays AAU for the SC 76ers who are coached by former University of South Carolina captain Asia Dozier.
Personal Notes

  • Born and raised in Tennessee.
  • Daughter to Ryan Stack who played basketball at University of South Carolina (1994-98) and was a second-round pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1998. He also played in Greece where he was a five-time all-star
rest at the link: Riley Stack
Sounds like you want to give up on recruiting her?
 
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not pleased either...........the remaining '23 recruits are a complete wildcard..........I can't sense that any of them are UConn leans.........frankly same goes for '24 recruits.......doesn't mean they're not coming, just that usually we get a good feeling about a few of them ahead of the decision.........on the other hand, prospective leans sometimes change their minds as we've seen recently....:(
No one knew that Arnold was a UConn lean either and Shade came out of nowhere after everybody got excited about her being seen at Tennessee several times. And going back to 2018, nobody had any clue about Williams and ONO either. UConn's staff doesn't play the cutesy social media game, they take care of their business in private. Relax and let 'em work. ;)
 
No one knew that Arnold was a UConn lean either and Shade came out of nowhere after everybody got excited about her being seen at Tennessee several times. And going back to 2018, nobody had any clue about Williams and ONO either. UConn's staff doesn't play the cutesy social media game, they take care of their business in private. Relax and let 'em work. ;)
True. You have a point BobbyJ.
 
No one knew that Arnold was a UConn lean either and Shade came out of nowhere after everybody got excited about her being seen at Tennessee several times. And going back to 2018, nobody had any clue about Williams and ONO either. UConn's staff doesn't play the cutesy social media game, they take care of their business in private. Relax and let 'em work. ;)
very true..........maybe it's simply that there's such limited outside info on who the coaches are really going after hard in person and other hints................obviously with the long season, covid and NCAA rules that may not have been possible so hopefully the next few months should be more revealing....
 
Had the opportunity to watch Ashlynn Shade face off against New Heights NYC (and Aalyah Del Rosario) at a big tournament in Pittsburgh.

Athletically, Shade is really impressive. Solid frame, great handle, great quickness, and most impressive is the way she gets off the ground and hangs in the air on her jump shot. Her shots weren’t falling at times, but one play she was getting down hill and the next she was posting up a smaller guard and making plays. Was really impressed with how well she seals the defender and goes and gets the ball. Great motor.

Del Rosario is BIG. Very big. She moves pretty well, but she’s got some extra weight to lose that should increase quickness. I’m not sure she’s a huge impact player at the college level right away, but give her a year or two and she can be really good.
 
Had the opportunity to watch Ashlynn Shade face off against New Heights NYC (and Aalyah Del Rosario) at a big tournament in Pittsburgh.

Athletically, Shade is really impressive. Solid frame, great handle, great quickness, and most impressive is the way she gets off the ground and hangs in the air on her jump shot. Her shots weren’t falling at times, but one play she was getting down hill and the next she was posting up a smaller guard and making plays. Was really impressed with how well she seals the defender and goes and gets the ball. Great motor.

Del Rosario is BIG. Very big. She moves pretty well, but she’s got some extra weight to lose that should increase quickness. I’m not sure she’s a huge impact player at the college level right away, but give her a year or two and she can be really good.
Giving Del Rosario a year or two to develop is now more possible because Piath is no longer on the roster. To put it gently one project at a time is all that UCONN can afford IMO.
 
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Speaking of Del Rosario, she's been invited to the U18 tryout camp along with Chloe Kitts. Ashlynn Shade previously announced.
Interesting. I think she was born in the US but she spent part of her childhood in the DR. The US coaching is no doubt better but I thought she'd represent her "other" home.
 
I think Del Rosario is more than a project but I also think we will not be able to recruit her successfully. Very nice kid who is striving to be a pro but I don’t think the UConn environment is for her. She’s a big cuddly teddy bear. The fit isn’t there. It does take more stress than maybe she is able to manage well. I don’t think she would do well in the UConn environment. She’s a kid who is just trying to be a basketball player to help her family and her family isn’t here to support her. She really would do well to go to a lower pressure school.
 
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I've seen the quote and I've seen her shot. Yes, her form is good, though not great. Yet I've seen shooters with good form that never became good shooters. Hopefully Ayanna becomes the latter, but, again, that's going to take work. What's also going to take work is learning to work and shoot off of the myriad screens Geno runs.
Haven’t seen her, but the only question I have is… can she make shots from inside 10’, especially from in close? That’s the only place that matters for next year.
 
I’m confident that Ayanna will develop her shot during her UConn tenure to point of mid-range efficacy & even out to 3-pt line by her senior year. Driven gym rat with strong work ethic combined with great coaching & resources. Plus, game ever evolving to pace & space requiring shooters at every position on floor. Geno looks to play this way & pro game necessitates it. Ayanna has potential & aspiration to be a top W pick so she knows this as well. Finally, player comp NaLyssa Smith just showed her road map, of sorts, expanding her paint-intensive game senior season under ex-pro coach Nicki Collen’s auspices.
 
I’m confident that Ayanna will develop her shot during her UConn tenure to point of mid-range efficacy & even out to 3-pt line by her senior year. Driven gym rat with strong work ethic combined with great coaching & resources. Plus, game ever evolving to pace & space requiring shooters at every position on floor. Geno looks to play this way & pro game necessitates it. Ayanna has potential & aspiration to be a top W pick so she knows this as well. Finally, player comp NaLyssa Smith just showed her road map, of sorts, expanding her paint-intensive game senior season under ex-pro coach Nicki Collen’s auspices.
This concept is so important it bears repeating not to lament last season but UCONN opponents were be entirely disrespectful of several UCONN shooters often conceding shots and touches from large areas of the floor. Those areas of the floor are being conceded to Liv, Nika, Aaliyah Edwards and Aubrey when she was healthy. Ice Brady and Ayanna will help simply by having to be guarded from all areas of the floor.
 
I agree that opponents were perfectly content to leave several of our players unguarded from mid-range to deep.
Next year it would take many shots going in from that range to not put Ayanna in that category...were I an opposing coach.

Hope that changes as the games and years go by. I think her value in her frosh year will in fact be all over the court...
defensively. Offensive and defensive rebounding...put backs...receiving fast break passes from our guards for lay-ups...those will be her calling cards against weaker teams and top 10 types.

Leave Ice open from trey range and in...you will pay.
 
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