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DiJonai Carrington top-3

I'd like to request that posters refrain from being so negative and critical on DJC. This thread is starting to look more like a TN or ND board thread then what we expect on the Boneyard.

Personally 10 players is not enough in this era of women's basketball no matter how many freshman need development. She comes from a blue chip high intelligence program and has demonstrated skill when healthy so if Geno believes out of all the transfer prospects that she can make a contribution to the program next year I'm on board.
 
soxfan23 said:
Carrington is an ABYSMAL shooter, that is evidenced by the fact that she has shot over .300% from 3pt range just one year in her career!
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So are we calling Kelly Faris an "abysmal shooter" in her senior year because she was lousy as a freshman. The "one year" you cite was her last year. Are you trying to say players that show an improvement as a shooter from their freshman to their juniors years shooting have no shot to improve in the senior year?

So are you saying to ignore that the stats show the player is improving year over year, ignore the trends, ignore that players probably improve each year, instead use their years when they were underclassmen - as a key barometer?

IMO you just don't want her so you're ignoring the trends that happen to many upperclassmen - they improve just as their trends and her trends are showing. So despite her showing a big improvement for 3pt shooting .238 as a frosh, then .280 as a soph, then .330 as a junior -- are you saying that you can't see the improvement? Or you think the stats showing improvement should be ignored? So ignore all players trends? Or is it just this one player? Her trend is showing a steady climb, why should l I believe that it won't continue especially since she might have more opportunities to be wide open with UCONN? Why shouldn't I follow trends?
So I'm following trends here. So how is following trends "cherry-picking?"
 
oldude said:
Think Megan Walker, who really improved her 3-pt shooting each and every year with UConn, or Mo who couldn’t throw the ball in the ocean when she got to UConn, but became a deadly 3-pt shooter by her senior season.
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I'm with you on everything. But actually MoJeff was a very good 3pt shooter starting her soph year in which she shot 41.6%. Her jr year she was off-the-charts as she shot 49.6%.

While someone might come back at me and say "not every player improves" -- sure. But someone who shoots 49.6% from 3-- chances are they aren't going to improve that. Shooting that good is amazing. MoJeff was an amazing shooter her jr year.

It isn't "cherry-picking" though for us to expect a player that has showed improvement to continue to show it with more practice and experience unless their role significantly changes.
 
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Stoli said:
Per IG she will announce her choice of the three on TV 6pm west coast time tomorrow. At 7 PM she will discuss live on IG.
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She’s good & all but she’s acting like she’s the #1 transfer like Slocum or a former #1 recruit or something... just announce on social media like everybody else
 
I have no idea where she ends up. I originally thought Oregon given the family connection and being a west coast girl. She recently started following many Baylor staff members. Kim has been really successful in the grad transfer market the last few years.

I feel like UCONN really likes where they are at with their roster, Baylor and Oregon could use this piece more for their teams next year given the losses of the seniors.
 
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Too old to be announcing a top 3 and the final decision on tv ..with only one year of eligibility and not really star player, I don’t get it
 
due to more lax state health regulations her odds of actually playing basketball this coming season are better at Baylor and perhaps Oregon then UConn....................I'd bet this was brought up during recruiting talks by the other schools...........
 
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triaddukefan said:
Whats the age cut off for that? Is there also an age cut off for calling kids divas as well?
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I don't know. My 5 year old niece used to act like one.
 
Plebe said:
I wonder if being excessively judgmental is a side effect of being cooped up at home.
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You wonder? Speaking from my own experience, it is uncontrovertibly true!

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pvdoggy said:
If she got an interest/offer from Geno, she is a Uconn type player.
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As far as talent is concerned, yes. Geno has talked plenty about how he feels about things like this even with instagram live interviews recently. I stand by what I said.
 
Hmm, or maybe she was asked to give her decision on TV and accepted the offer. How often does this happen for women and girls playing basketball, or sports in general? She’s from San Diego, and San Diego’s Fox affiliate wants to give media attention to a local athlete.

I wonder if this “diva” term was used when Katie Lou spent most of her WNBA season pouting and thinking she “needed to play” as opposed to her team thinking she needed to be developed. Which of course led to her mother mouthing off on Twitter. I’m sure the term wasn’t used then, so why is it a thing now?
 
triaddukefan said:
Whats the age cut off for that? Is there also an age cut off for calling kids divas as well?
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There’s no cut off age but I feel like when you’re 22, 23 or one of the older college athletes and have graduated and pursuing grad school, I would think that kind of thing like a top 3 or recruitment excitement doesn’t really phase you like a high school kid who may be a sophomore or 15 yrs old. As far as the diva comment, I didn’t say that.
 
DeeHusky said:
There’s no cut off age but I feel like when you’re 22, 23 or one of the older college athletes and have graduated and pursuing grad school, I would think that kind of thing like a top 3 or recruitment excitement doesn’t really phase you like a high school kid who may be a sophomore or 15 yrs old. As far as the diva comment, I didn’t say that.
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Announcements of finalists happens all the time on the men’s side regardless of age. Since this season ended, I can’t tell you the amount of articles I’ve seen of a male player’s preferred transfer destinations because it’s been so many. By no means is she Lebron James or Kevin Durant, but we knew their finalists during their free agencies as well. LeBron had a whole ESPN special to announce his destination the first time. Was he “too old” for that?

Are the players that publish their life experiences and testimonies in the Players’ Tribune “too old” for that, too?

We can’t demand equal coverage and attention for female athletes then insinuate they are immature or self absorbed when they get it.
 
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j66kicker said:
And LeBron got brutally skewered for that. Diva not inappropriate there either, or at least it represented the general sentiment.
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And the special still went on to be the most watched cable show of the night. Whether people thought it was unnecessary or not, they still watched. Also, just because her hometown actually cares about her basketball career enough to ask her to make a TV appearance doesn’t make her a diva. That actually makes her marketable, which probably is why the offer to be on the station was presented to her.

But again, was Katie Lou a diva for complaining to her mother about a lack of playing time? Or for her dissatisfaction with the role her organization was expecting her to play? Or do these sort of things seemingly get ignored if the player went to UConn?
 
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