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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3501058, member: 1220"] I don't really see anything wrong with this list. Nor was there any great injustice committed. If so it is to a player that we have not really heard much about. There are plenty of players every year who are passed over that UConn fans have never heard of. Fans tend to be focused more on their own team and that is natural. However, when it comes to injustices to their team or players they need to consider that fact and not just assume that the rest of the world sees things through their eyes. It is not an insult to not make a ten-player freshman list. There were some really excellent freshman performances this season. Much more than I ever remembered ever happening before. What probably throws people off is that many of those players on the list were not acknowledged in high school and just exploded in college. Fans on this board tend to give high school rankings much more credence than they often deserve. Allissa Pili was one example. She got no recognition nationally in high school, but once she got to college she put Angel Jackson a 6'5" McDonald AA on the bench. McDonald looked as good as Boston in the McD and Jordan games. Pili is a total freak. She was the only Freshman on the All Pac 12 team. If she was one of those mentioned as only having stats because other players on her team were not that good, well it can work both ways. When no one else is a threat the other teams target you and she got those stats playing in the Pac 12. I am not usually a fan of tweeners but she reminded me of Danielle Adams. except that she is even harder to stop on the block. She is one of the players that most of you have probably never even heard about let alone seen play. Like Heberd she was a multiple Alaska Gatorade player of the year. Maybe they should start paying more attention to those players from Alaska. [/QUOTE]

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