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Azzi Fudd Cover Story feature, sportscenter at noon 2/25 [merged thread]

That's a serious looking scar on her knee. Hopefully she doesn't have knees like Evina or Tuck.
 
hoopsfan22 said:
That's a serious looking scar on her knee. Hopefully she doesn't have knees like Evina or Tuck.
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Both knees my friend.
 
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huskyblooz said:
last thing we need is more pressure to win
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A little over a year ago, Yankee pitcher Gerrit Cole had a great comment, “Pressure is a privilege that you earn.” DT, Maya, Stewie and many other UConn WBB players thrived in pressure situations.

Paige has already demonstrated that she can deliver in high pressure games. I suspect Azzi will do the same. If these kids did not want the pressure of playing basketball at UConn, they wouldn’t have come to Storrs in the first place.
 
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Thank you for posting that video. It is so inspiring what she had to go through, and her determination to still be the best. I am so glad that any BY doubters can see what kind of kid Azzi is, knowing that her goals are still in front of her, and she chose to attain them at UCONN.
 
AmeriConn said:
A great feel good Cover Story!
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I strenuous object to the line "Azzi Fudd is the best high school player the women's game has seen in years." I am sure the best girl's high school player in years graduated last year, Paige Bueckers! Every game I watched where Azzi and Paige competed, Paige's team won with Paige out playing Azzi. Not dramtically but still noticeably. Hyperbole at its worse.
 
SVCBeercats said:
I strenuous object to the line "Azzi Fudd is the best high school player the women's game has seen in years." I am sure the best girl's high school player in years graduated last year, Paige Bueckers! Every game I watched where Azzi and Paige competed, Paige's team won with Paige out playing Azzi. Not dramtically but still noticeably. Hyperbole at its worse.
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Doesn't matter who is better. The big deal is we will have the best and second best competing together for us.
 
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Azzi commented the person guarding her was “really physical” when she went down. You can see in the vid it was Hailey Van Lith guarding her.
 
SVCBeercats said:
I strenuous object to the line "Azzi Fudd is the best high school player the women's game has seen in years." I am sure the best girl's high school player in years graduated last year, Paige Bueckers! Every game I watched where Azzi and Paige competed, Paige's team won with Paige out playing Azzi. Not dramtically but still noticeably. Hyperbole at its worse.
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We embrace and appreciate both of them. I am sure they will compliment one another and share the accolades. They’re friends and that’s what friends do.
 
The covery story:
The only thing Azzi Fudd can bring herself to look at is the falling snow. She can't look at her mother, Katie, who's sitting in the passenger seat, too distraught to drive. And she won't look at her knee, which no longer looks like her knee anyway.

Her grandmother, Karen, navigates their rented black SUV through the accumulating snow. It's April 13, 2019, and they're rushing from the USA Basketball 3-on-3 U18 nationals in Colorado Springs to Denver, some 75 miles away, for an emergency MRI to see whether Azzi's injury is as bad as they all fear.

This is, after all, Azzi Fudd, the top girls' basketball prospect in the country, a shooting sensation who has wowed everyone from two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry to two-time WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne to 11-time NCAA champion Geno Auriemma. She is, by most accounts, the best high school talent the game has seen in decades.

Scouts across the basketball landscape were comparing her to everyone from Diana Taurasi to Maya Moore. "She's just better at basketball than everyone else," says Jonathan Scribner, her high school coach.

Auriemma, for his part, first saw Fudd play when she was in eighth grade. "You expect [young players] to be a little bit big-eyed and clumsy and in a rush to do something," he says. "You never saw any of that in Azzi."

www.espn.com

How Azzi Fudd became the best prospect in a generation

Basketball's best prospect in decades couldn't be derailed by a devastating knee injury or a pandemic. The next step in Fudd's ascension: teaming with Paige Bueckers at UConn.
www.espn.com
 
JordyG said:
Both knees my friend.
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Yes @JordyG, but I never could find information about the injury behind that other scar. Do you know? PS. I guess that scar has to do with harvesting the graft to use on her injured knee.
 
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Looks like all other teams will have to quit the NCAA championships the next three years..... it will not be surprising that they will avoid to schedule games another UConn unless they are in big east
 
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Paige + Azzi = DT + Maya
Next year, I just cannot image what will happen with those two in our team.

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RockyMTblue2 said:
Yes @JordyG, but I never could find information about the injury behind that other scar. Do you know? PS. I guess that scar has to do with harvesting the graft to use on her injured knee.
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I don't know the medical term, but something was taken from her good knee and grafted into her damaged knee.
 
I get a kick out of attempts to compare Paige and Azzi. They are different, complimentary players. I can hardly wait until the debate next fall about whether Azzi will start as a freshman. Remember, we had a similar debate just recently.
 
They've risen together. They've fallen. They've picked each other up. Now they know the future is theirs to own.

And that tantalizing future begins shortly. Fudd signed a national letter of intent with UConn last November, and excitement (or dread) for what a Bueckers-Fudd backcourt will look like has erupted ever since. Comparisons to the legendary Sue Bird-Diana Taurasi backcourt of the early 2000s are already being tossed about. Talk of extending -- or reviving -- perhaps the greatest dynasty in the history of sports is more than mere chatter.

Bueckers, in her freshman season, has blasted onto the college basketball scene, showing a swagger, a flashiness, in leading the Huskies to an 18-1 record and the No. 1 ranking. She's among the nation's leading scorers (20.5) and 3-point shooters, averaging 53.7% through her first 18 games.

And Fudd -- who once hit 256 NBA-range 3s in 18 minutes during a catch-and-shoot drill -- might be even better, bringing a steadiness, a constancy to match Bueckers' unrelenting flair.

In other words, they're a perfect pair.
 
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Says Bueckers: "You just have to see us play. That would be a better way to explain it."

Back in Knoxville, Bueckers hops off the table and limps back onto the court. UConn is up two with 30 seconds to go. As the shot clock nears zero, Bueckers catches a pass on the left wing and shoots over a converging double-team. She lets out a roar as it slips through the net.

"I knew it was good because she's built for moments like that," Fudd says now.
 
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