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I'm disappointed. A tale of two players. I saw Kiah Stokes struggle in her soph season getting chewed out by Geno a number of times. But she stuck with it and look at her now. I know Ekmark struggled last season but thought hey this could be another Stokes story. A different position but I thought she would be like Stokes and work on what she could do to help the team and make her mark. I thought she might be a force coming off the bench with her outside shot. Oh well.....good luck to her.
 
johnnyc said:
I'm disappointed. A tale of two players. I saw Kiah Stokes struggle in her soph season getting chewed out by Geno a number of times. But she stuck with it and look at her now. I know Ekmark struggled last season but thought hey this could be another Stokes story. A different position but I thought she would be like Stokes and work on what she could do to help the team and make her mark. I thought she might be a force coming off the bench with her outside shot. Oh well.....good luck to her.
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Chong may be playing the Stokes role... but her limited playing time is also from the injury, unlike Stokes
 
HoopsFan21 said:
Too bad. Thought she could have an impact this season with some playing time opening up at guard.
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Really! While we would like to see these players stay for the 4years, it was clear that she lost something in her junior year in HS, and never got it back. Increased playing time here would have been a surprise. I don't know much about ASU, but getting back home should be a joy for family and friends.
 
DaddyChoc said:
Chong may be playing the Stokes role... but her limited playing time is also from the injury, unlike Stokes
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Stokes was also injured on and off her first couple of seasons at UConn. She missed time due to a nagging back injury, for example. I don't think we had a fully healthy Kiah until her junior season.
 
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HuskyNan said:
Molly is from New England which gets very little exposure to scouts.
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A New England prep school league simply does not have the cachet (no, not the cache!) of a big-high school conference in, say, Texas.;)
 
HuskyNan said:
Molly is from New England which gets very little exposure to scouts. Besides, Geno doesn't care about rankings - see the below article.
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Being from New England was a factor but the much bigger factor according to her HS coach was she was not committed solely to basketball.

"At that point in her life, her basketball skills were OK, Ivy League level," Coughlin said. "Once she stopped [soccer], well, she's such a hard worker that it wasn't long before it all began to change for her. I told [the talent evaluators] that she was the most improved kid I had ever seen over one year's time. "

UConn Women's Insider: Introducing Molly Bent





 
So far as I could tell, she gave 100% every chance she had. I will always respect that and hope that her best basketball hopes are finally realized, at whatever location. Go get em, Ek!
 
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HuskyNan said:
Molly is from New England which gets very little exposure to scouts. Besides, Geno doesn't care about rankings - see the below article.

Recruit Molly Bent represents a throwback for Auriemma's Huskies
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Geno knows what type of players fit into his system. 31 years of experience have taught him what skills and attributes a player must have in order to fit in, and function in his system. Geno and his coaches are excellent evaluators of talent. When the assistant coaches scout potential recruits in person, they know the type of players Geno likes. Sometimes those players fall under the radar of the national ranking services. Geno only cares if they fit the profile that he prefers. It's common knowledge that UConn is not for everyone. Some players do not have the skill set, temperament, attitude or desire to play for him.

It's amusing that some coaches continue to whine and complain that Geno gets all of the best/top talent every year (which is not true), they whine and complain when they get beat by 40 points, but they won't attend one of his practices, not will they try and pick his brain as to his philosophy about assembling and coaching a WCBB team.

Obviously whatever he's doing works. The team's 11 NC's prove that. If I were an young and up and coming basketball coach, I'd attend a couple of his practices, them take him out to dinner and spend an hour (or two) listening to him explain to me the "blueprint" for how he does it. What's that old adage...........if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, or learn from the mistakes of others. Head bang
 
chrissaran said:
I don't think it had anything to do with her injury. She wants to play meaningful minutes and that wasn't going to happen at UConn. She would be the last of the guards behind: Kia, Katie Lou, Crystal, Saniya and Molly. There wouldn't be many minutes for her again. Best of luck, Courtney.
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Plus she would have much more competition still in her senior year.
 
Courtney will enjoy the best of both worlds.

1 - She takes with her two years of learning how to play the game UConn style, and having been tutored and coached by one of the best college coaches of all time. She leaves with not 1, but 2 championship rings in her back pocket that no one can take away from her; she earned those. She'll take away the experience of preparing for, and playing in six games in the NCAA tournament twice. That's something most players never get to experience once.

2 - She's going to finish her college career at home, playing in front of family and friends on a nightly basis. This dynamic should not be taken lightly. There's no place like home. Her chances of getting more playing time just improved exponentially with this move.

Looking at it from several perspectives, all I can see is a win-win for Courtney. I don't see any down side or negatives to her transferring to ASU. Any time you return home, it's always nice. Just ask Moriah Jefferson who returned to her personal "briar patch".
 
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Courtney was the #1 student in her high school class through 3 years. I expect that she'll spend 3 years at ASU and complete a graduate degree program, leaving with 2 degrees.
 
Kibitzer said:
A New England prep school league simply does not have the cachet (no, not the cache!) of a big-high school conference in, say, Texas.;)
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You'd have a point if that was the only place these kids were evaluated. The AAU tournaments, where there's more mixing of top players, and camps are where a lot of players get seen.

Though if a player happens to miss those then she can be under the radar.
 
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