Caroline Ducharme and Saylor: How Do They Compare, and Where Do They Fit?

[MilfordHusky]

I believe Saylor's advantage will be that she is done with High School and gets the early start on next year's chemistry (experiment) with Geno, CD (the original!!!), Jamelle and company now. Plus the advantage of having 4.5 years of playing (possibly) at UCONN, 3.5 with Paige & 4 with Azzi.

Saylor will have an advantage over Caroline, Amari, and even Azzi, by spending a semester at UConn. When I wrote my comparison, I had no idea that Say was coming early.

 

[slug25]

Saylor will have an advantage over Caroline, Amari, and even Azzi, by spending a semester at UConn. When I wrote my comparison, I had no idea that Say was coming early.

As someone mentioned in the other Saylor thread, SP’s game is analogous to Maddie Siegrist of Villanova. Plenty of playing time for one like her. My only concern about CD and SP is the weakness of their HS competition. Have they played enough big time AAU in light of injury histories?

 

[ju6381]

For some reason I am thinking they could have a Doty-Hayes impact when they get here.

 

[MilfordHusky]

As someone mentioned in the other Saylor thread, SP’s game is analogous to Maddie Siegrist of Villanova. Plenty of playing time for one like her. My only concern about CD and SP is the weakness of their HS competition. Have they played enough big time AAU in light of injury histories?

Caroline’s AAU team had a HUGE summer and even played in Rucker Park in Harlem. Caroline Ducharme drew rave reviews.

 

[The CDR-Ret]

Saylor will have an advantage over Caroline, Amari, and even Azzi, by spending a semester at UConn. When I wrote my comparison, I had no idea that Say was coming early.

Understand. My wife found my UCONN sweatshirt, so I wore it to work on Friday, and by 10:30 a.m. word was on the street that Saylor had "charted her course" to UCONN for this weekend. I plan on wearing the sweatshirt more often - even if the weather gets colder....

 

[Jingo]

Caroline’s AAU team had a HUGE summer and even played in Rucker Park in Harlem. Caroline Ducharme drew rave reviews.

RUCKER PARK [from my novel]:
IT IS PERHAPS the most hallowed ground in all of sports. It is the flat land just below the promontory known as Coogan’s Bluff in Manhattan. Willie Mays, the Say-Hey Kid, made his famous over-the-shoulder catch in deep center-field, on these grounds, in the ’54 Series. Sal “The Barber” Maglie routinely shaved Campy and The Duke on this very spot. And it was here, that Bobby Thomson hit “The Shot Heard Round the World”. Yes, it was baseball in all its glory. But unfortunately for denizens of The City that Never Sleeps the lights dimmed in the Polo Grounds after the Giants left N.Y. for San Francisco … and the fabled arena was torn down.

But the spirit in the ground wouldn’t die. New sports legends would trod the hallowed ground but this time in sneakers rather than cleats. Basketball instead of baseball. New names like The Goat, The Stilt, The Doctor, The Hawk, The Pearl and perhaps the greatest streetballer of all time, Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. The small triangle of real estate on the Harlem River that was once home to the Polo Grounds was now home to NBA and streetball legends. The name was Rucker Park — the world's most famous streetball arena.