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Does anybody know C's & PF's left in the transfer portal?

HuskyNan said:
USA Basketball says she’s 6-2

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There are few things more illuminating than speculating on the units used to measure the height of a recruit. That said, Morgan is a big kid with excellent guard skills. Even if she’s only 6’1” she will be awesome at pg or guiding the transition game. I think it would be a shame to use her only as a lowpost player, though she also has those skills. I’m sure if Geno needs her too, she’ll do well at pf and is one more reason he might not think another portal player is necessary or useful.
 
Bone Dog said:
There are few things more illuminating than speculating on the units used to measure the height of a recruit. That said, Morgan is a big kid with excellent guard skills. Even if she’s only 6’1” she will be awesome at pg or guiding the transition game. I think it would be a shame to use her only as a lowpost player, though she also has those skills. I’m sure if Geno needs her too, she’ll do well at pf and is one more reason he might not think another portal player is necessary or useful.
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Morgan is a great ball handler. During the Jordan Classic, against the press she got by incredibly easily, even though she wasn’t very fast, she made up for it in dribbling out of traffic.
 
Fanofball said:
Morgan is a great ball handler. During the Jordan Classic, against the press she got by incredibly easily, even though she wasn’t very fast, she made up for it in dribbling out of traffic.
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Should be more passing against a press versus dribbling anyway. I have yet to see a player outrun a well-placed pass.
 
Fanofball said:
Morgan is a great ball handler. During the Jordan Classic, against the press she got by incredibly easily, even though she wasn’t very fast, she made up for it in dribbling out of traffic.
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I think Morgan is very fast. She's not Rori Harmon or Hannah Hidalgo quick. She doesn't have that twitchy first step quickness. But for a big PG who will tower over players like those two, she is very fast. She's faster (to my eye) than Soni Citron, who is about as close a comparison as I can come up with and is not really viable as a PG. Another comparison I could make is to Caroline, who is roughly the same size but nowhere near as fast... and yet Caroline was regularly able to beat smaller players off the dribble from the perimeter. She just knows how to get them on her hip and then it's all over.

Maybe this is the best comparison: she's roughly as fast as Nika, but a lot bigger and with the same aggressive mindset. If there's a turnover or a long rebound, she can get the ball down the floor as fast as Nika could. she looks to run. She will be a terror against opponents.

Her coach at Mitty HS seems to specialize in coaching up big PGs. Haley Jones was another one of her products, and Morgan is a lot faster than Haley ever was. It remains to be seen if she will have the same court savvy and fearlessness Haley had against D1 opponents. Since Mitty HS plays in a very competitive league, I have high hopes that the transition to D1 won't be too hard on Morgan.

But how have I let you trick me into this swerve onto PGs, @Fanofball ?
 
LwrcasefaN said:
Should be more passing against a press versus dribbling anyway. I have yet to see a player outrun a well-placed pass.
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I remember MoJeff seeming to do it a few times. One amazing game against SC and Bianca Cuevas (who was supposed to be faster) Moriah practically scorched the floor on a couple of one-woman fast breaks. In any event, if anyone could do it, it would be her.
 
RSHERMVIKES said:
Centerstream- - -Remember Ines Bettencourt signed maybe 1 or 2 days before classes started so UConn could sign a big up to classes starting in September!
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True but I was replying to a post asking about a player in the portal and UConn's possible discussions with her, so I was referring to the possibility of any incoming transfers.
IMO UConn would make it clear to any transfers they are interested in, to be committed by the start of the summer session.
Just my opinion, not a fact.
 
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I honestly believe that UCONN is set for talent against any team out there. Add someone, but I don't think they need anyone else. There's so much talent that rarely is there a thread where someone doesn't get left out of the conversation. Forget who starts...just look at this roster. That's a lot of offense and a lot of vicious combinations of skills to unleash. They're underestimated because...it's been awhile since the last championship. That's the standard they set and have to abide by it.
 
Yes, very talented team, particularly when they are all game ready and playing up to full potential. Something however has me wondering if just leaving well enough alone is the correct choice? If, not filing a roster spot, purposefully entering the season one player short, is the best course of action?

Maybe it is the freshness of the snake bite that has me on edge. The team has been very talented for years and years; we have not had questionable talent for over three decades! Having a huge plethora of 'talented' players all sitting on the bench in street clothes however, that has been a problem. Particularly as of recent! It wasn't all that long ago that UConn had to delay a game because we did not have even seven healthy players to suit up. We were all thinking, 'I wonder if they would allow C.D. to substitute into the game?'

The first one third of the season, our non-conference schedule, is going to be stacked up with tough games. Not the middle third, after we've had nine or ten cream puffs to train our inexperienced players on our system of play, to build up some confidence, to gain that shooting touch. Unlike LSU, we are not going to have that milksop schedule to start off the season. It'll be immediate, right out of the gate, probably on the road, we'll have several national championship caliber teams to contend with. If we run through a stretch, with some of the freshmen and sophomores (the inexperienced) not playing up to their potential as of yet, then couple that with two or three little nagging injuries to veterans that might occur, and coupled it with one or two old injuries from the previous season that still have players out ... after purposefully entering the season one player short?
 
Dugway said:
Yes, very talented team, particularly when they are all game ready and playing up to full potential. Something however has me wondering if just leaving well enough alone is the correct choice? If, not filing a roster spot, purposefully entering the season one player short, is the best course of action?

... after purposefully entering the season one player short?
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I am wondering, how many years have the Huskies started a season with a full roster?

Define purposefully please.
 
Dugway said:
The first one third of the season, our non-conference schedule, is going to be stacked up with tough games.
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Yup. We could lose a couple games in that stretch. I’m unconcerned. Geno aims at NCs, not going undefeated. A loss can be a learning experience for the team.
Centerstream said:
I am wondering, how many years have the Huskies started a season with a full roster?
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Many
 
Bone Dog said:
Yup. We could lose a couple games in that stretch. I’m unconcerned. Geno aims at NCs, not going undefeated. A loss can be a learning experience for the team.

Many
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In the last 5 seasons, for example, how many teams had 15 athletic scholarship players on it? Last 10 years?
Or maybe I am misinformed...when did the NCAA set the 15 scholarship maximum? What was the previous maximum? I can't recall many times when we had over 12 players on the roster and am assuming 15 was the max.
 
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Then I think we must be done for the portal. No Dauda and I just can't see Barker coming to UConn after what she has said about UConn. I guess there is a slim chance of a last minute foreign player but probably not. I sure hope Jana is physically ready to go on day 1......
 
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Not sure if it’s been stated yet but Dauda is off to South Carolina
Dugway said:
Arkansas’s Maryam Dauda, 6’4, F, Soph. (10.1 ppg, 6.3 rpg)

Texas A&M’s Janiah Barker, 6’4, F, Soph. (12.2 ppg, 7.6 rpg)

Arkansas Pine Bluffs Maori Davenport, 6’5, C, Sr. (4.7 ppg, 5.6 rpg)
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For the latest tracking on this subject, per Raoul:

Tallest WBB players left in the porta
—ZiKeyah Carter, 6-6, Chicago Sta
—Aicha Ndour, 6-6, Illinois
—Madison Moles, 6-6, Northwestern State
—Iuliia Grabovskaia, 6-5, Middle Tennessee
 
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Dillon77 said:
For the latest tracking on this subject, per Raoul:

Tallest WBB players left in the porta
—ZiKeyah Carter, 6-6, Chicago Sta
—Aicha Ndour, 6-6, Illinois
—Madison Moles, 6-6, Northwestern State
—Iuliia Grabovskaia, 6-5, Middle Tennessee
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Isnelle Natabou 6-5, Iowa State
 
drsteven said:
Thanks, I just saw that she committed/signed on June10th, how'd you have inside info on June 1st?
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The post I shared is from her Twitter account. This isn't a case of insider information. Announcing and signing are two different things as well.
 
cancontent said:
The post I shared is from her Twitter account. This isn't a case of insider information. Announcing and signing are two different things as well.
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Thanks, my laptop blocks X, so I couldn't see that on my end. Do ya think a transfer big backup idea is dead?
 
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