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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3532189, member: 2117"] Interesting analysis...couple things I disagree with but I like the topic. Regarding Reese, she seems a bit raw for a #2 recruit and I think a big part of her high ranking comes down to upside since she's 6-3, long and athletic with solid guard skills. Brenda's transfer out rate is a concern. Brenda's ability to develop players is not. Most players who actually do stick it out 4 years at Maryland turn into very good players. For examples, look at at Brionna Jones, Stephanie Jones, Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Kristen Confroy, Alyssa Thomas, or any of the Langhorne/Harper/Coleman/Toliver crew. Even players that do leave improve big time over their 2 years at Maryland, with Shakira Austin/Lexie Brown as prime examples of that. Brenda has her flaws, but developing players is not one of them. As far as Cardosa, she's a big who can run the floor and will get great passes from Mangakahia/Lewis. I agree that Syracuse seems like an odd fit, but it could work well with a 1in/4out offense. She'll definitely get lots of space inside. Rutgers is kind of a crapshoot with top recruits. In the past decade they usually don't stick around or develop particularly well with players like Scaife and Kahleah Copper as the exception. I wouldn't use Morris/Davenport as examples though since Morris has her own off the court issues and Davenport was likely homesick. Looking at the rest of the class: -I think Hailey Van Lith, Bueckers, and Clark are in the best spots to contribute early. Biggest pressure is on Bueckers since UCONN is a "championship or bust" program and she's likely taking over the reigns at PG from day 1. Everything about her indicates she has that "it" factor and should live up to the hype, but last year we saw Horston look like a slam dunk recruit for Tennessee and we saw how that panned out. Hailey Van Lith/Clark walk into lower pressure situations, as I think Hailey Van Lith will not be expected to take on a primary role with Evans/Balogun still there. Clark will take on a prominent role but expectations are a lot lower for Iowa. They're in more of a rebuilding mode with Meyer/Doyle both gone. -Oregon/ND/UCONN both landed large and deep classes. Realistically all 3 will likely have players who get limited PT and wind up transferring out. All have had lots of transfers in recent years. UCONN/Oregon has had most of their kids who don't get PT transfer out, and ND has had its share of defections and has a new coach. -For UCONN, I think Bueckers/Edwards are most likely to contribute as freshmen, the others have an uphill battle with so much talent returning and staying on the roster the next 2 years. Wings are especially loaded with Makurat, Griffin, Williams and Westbrook all there potentially 2-3 years. -Freshman impact at Notre Dame is kind of a crapshoot with new coaching and coming off a disappointing season. There is a LOT of talent on the roster though, even without a clear vision or understanding of who is going to get primary minutes vs. who will be a backup early on. My guess is a couple of the freshmen become rotation players, likely Marshall/Westbeld since they project to be backups for Brunelle/Vaughn. -Oregon should get contributions from their freshmen early and often with a very inexperienced roster next year. I'd look for Scherr/Pao Pao/Parrish to take on the roles that Shelley/Chavez did a year ago. Watson should back up Sabally/Prince. -Baylor's pair of freshmen should be in positions to contribute as backups. Andrews appears to be more of a scoring PG so I don't think she'll get PG minutes early on, but could be a back up PG or SG to the Ursin/the Olivers. Gusters should slide in well backing up Egbo. -Brink is highly ranked but similarly to Reese I think she takes a year to adjust to the college game and needs to add muscle to compete inside. Stanford is loaded next year up front so I'm not sure if she sees the floor much. Up front they have Prechtel, Jerome, Belibi, and Dodson. All of those players are big and physical which will be good for Brink to practice against and get used to the physicality. [/QUOTE]

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