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June 2020 UCONN recruiting thread

soxfan23 said:
Boston is a good player, but she is NOWHERE near being a NPOY candidate! She is extremely overrated by most on this forum because she is viewed as "the one that got away".

Player A 13ppg 9rpg 86blks 34ast

Player B 11ppg 9rpg 100blks 89ast

Player A is Boston, Player B is Neslson-Ododa
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Don't disagree but she was likely the best center in the country as a frosh. We can all make our own minds up regarding how she was rated.
 
hoophuskee said:
Didn't Parade Magazine have Chong as the number 1 recruit one year and no else had her close? And didn't Parade not have Parker as the number 1 recruit?

Secondly, was KML a consensus number 1 as a senior? I thought EWilliams was also right there with her?

And while KML was closer -- could we say that in her senior year she was not the number 1 overall player?
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I believe KML was ranked #1 by all but 1 service where she was ranked #2
 
soxfan23 said:
Boston is a good player, but she is NOWHERE near being a NPOY candidate! She is extremely overrated by most on this forum because she is viewed as "the one that got away".

Player A 13ppg 9rpg 86blks 34ast

Player B 11ppg 9rpg 100blks 89ast

Player A is Boston, Player B is Neslson-Ododa
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How is she nowhere near being a npoy candidate? Are you sure? Are you not aware of the returning players next year? She was an all-American along with Rhyne Howard, Aari McDonald, Michaela Onyenwere, Elissa Cunane, and Dana Evans —the rest of the all-Americans were seniors or juniors that left college early. How can she not be in that conversation? I mean I get that some of us don’t like South Carolina, but dang. Give credit where it’s due. And also, they may have been close in stats but Liv did not have the year that Boston had. I’m just being honest.

I also do not think she’s overrated as well as I don’t view her as the one that got away. Any player that commits to UConn are the players that are supposed to be there. I don’t get into all the semantics about a decision that a young teenager makes about a college commit. However, had Boston chose UConn I can tell you’d be singing a different tune. Last year’s team with Boston would’ve been that much better honestly.
 
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hoophuskee said:
Didn't Parade Magazine have Chong as the number 1 recruit one year and no else had her close? And didn't Parade not have Parker as the number 1 recruit?

Secondly, was KML a consensus number 1 as a senior? I thought EWilliams was also right there with her?

And while KML was closer -- could we say that in her senior year she was not the number 1 overall player?
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I believe the year that Saniya was ranked #1 was the year that Parade shifted to ranking only seniors. It was an unusual approach and unusual result. If you look at the prior years, Parade did a pretty good job. Keep in mind that Parade's approach was to acknowledge high school accomplishments, not rate players as college prospects.

I don't recall where Parade rated Parker, but note they were not rating college prospects--they were rewarding high school performances.

KML and Williams shared the #1 position/ranking/POY awards, I believe.

KML was the #1 recruit as a high school senior and would have been #1 in the draft if Loyd and AZB and not jumped early.
 
Chong may have had as good a season as anyone in the country, still doesn't make her the best player.
 
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SCspur said:
Boston was named NFOY, Lisa Leslie award winner, SEC DPOY, as well as All American. Not saying Paige won’t be good but she’ll have to live up to the same height as Boston did this past season in order for your argument to be valid.
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No offense but I'm not sure you understand the argument. The argument of Paige vs Boston was who would be drafted 1st and who is/will be better. You're mentioning a SEC DPOY award? How is it that a DPOY in the SEC would matter if for example UCONN had a more successful season than SC? Further, regarding NFOY, I've mentioned maxpreps put Paige ahead of Boston. The FIBA U19 gave the MVP to Paige not Boston. Paige had a superior efficiency rating -- so if Paige were to win the NFOY, what makes you think Paige isn't better?

What if Paige leads her team in scoring and assists and gets UCONN to finals and loses in a tight game to SC (is what I've said preposterous?), how is that the SEC DPOY award or last yea'r's NFOY would automatically mean Paige is not as good?

If Paige doesn't win NFOY but she leads UCONN to a title does that mean anything? Didn't Jewel LLoyd get NFOY over Stewie? SO who was the better frehsman in your scenario?

Do you really think when it comes to drafting a player that scouts will say "I'm taking Boston over Paige because she won SEC DPOY?"

OFC defense matters but to what degree? If Boston doesn't dominate in E8, FF and Finals, how much do you think that DPOY is going to take her if she is shooting 43% form the floor in big games like she did in FIBA U18?

Alana Beard was NPOY in 2004. I'm sure she had more DPOY's than DT as well. Who was superior? DT or AB? The point is you replied to me the above information and yet so many other factors go into it, agree?
 
MilfordHusky said:
I believe the year that Saniya was ranked #1 was the year that Parade shifted to ranking only seniors. It was an unusual approach and unusual result. If you look at the prior years, Parade did a pretty good job. Keep in mind that Parade's approach was to acknowledge high school accomplishments, not rate players as college prospects.

I don't recall where Parade rated Parker, but note they were not rating college prospects--they were rewarding high school performances.

KML and Williams shared the #1 position/ranking/POY awards, I believe.

KML was the #1 recruit as a high school senior and would have been #1 in the draft if Loyd and AZB and not jumped early.
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Regardless Chong should never have sniffed number 1. I love Chong. Wow did she come though her senior year. Huge, huge year for us. As for Parker; Parade didn't put her at 1, they put Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood. That was ridiculous.
 
Boston will be a NPOY candidate, As will ONO. No one is overrating her. Also the funny thing about Chong is that if you watched her at certain times, to me she did look like the best player on the floor. I always thought that something held her back and that she had so much more to give. I think UConn’s the best place for almost any recruit to develop, but in a weird way, I think she would have been better off somewhere else. I feel like she was too laid back and nervous playing with so much talent. She needed to be where she was always relied on.
 
Charliebball said:
I've been watching Bueckers since her sophomore year in high school and I believe she could have started for the majority of college teams back then...........she has rarely played all out at the offensive end of the floor preferring to get her teammates easy baskets as opposed to scoring 35-40 points a game...........she is fully capable of averaging 25 points per game at the college level if Geno gives her the green light.............she's going to be living on the foul line for the next four years never mind her outside and mid range games which are top tier......
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We lost our best two three point shooters. We have Anna back and Paige coming in. Those two could both shoot over 40%. Not sure if anybody else is capable to shoot that percentage. You never know, somebody could surprise us.
 
SCspur said:
Boston was named NFOY, Lisa Leslie award winner, SEC DPOY, as well as All American. Not saying Paige won’t be good but she’ll have to live up to the same height as Boston did this past season in order for your argument to be valid.
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Rather than who will be better Boston or Paige, I think we can look at this from a broader perspective. You don't necessarily need to have the best player in the country to win a national championship, but one of the best plus many very good players is a nice model.

Last year's team didn't quite have that elite talent. Megan and Crystal were very good players, but not at the star level of many of our championship teams that had lots of very good players plus a national star. The bench was also not deep. There was a drop off below the top three teams last year, all of which had that star player on a very high level.

In my opinion Boston showed enough last year to be pretty convinced she is a very high future WNBA draft pick. For the next three years South Carolina can be a contender if they surround her with very good players, some of which came in as freshmen with Boston in their great recruiting class, and they seem like their recruiting successes will continue. I fully expect them to be in the championship discussion for the rest of her career.

Paige is expected to be that kind of player as well, probably even more highly regarded coming out of high school, but of course untested at the collegiate level. It appears we too will have plenty of very good players to compliment her. With only one year separating South Carolina's great class and our's this year, these are two teams that should be near the top for the next several years, and both Boston and Paige appear to be the kind of players you could build a championship around.
 
jabstep said:
We lost our best two three point shooters. We have Anna back and Paige coming in. Those two could both shoot over 40%. Not sure if anybody else is capable to shoot that percentage. You never know, somebody could surprise us.
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There is no "could" for Ania in this regard. She shot 25% from 3 for the first 8 games of her career.

She then led the team at 44.8% (52 of 116) for the next 24 games.

That's did, not could.
 
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jabstep said:
We lost our best two three point shooters. We have Anna back and Paige coming in. Those two could both shoot over 40%. Not sure if anybody else is capable to shoot that percentage. You never know, somebody could surprise us.
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I think CW definitely has the potential to shoot over 40% from three. This season was definitely not indicative of her abilities.
 
oldhuskie said:
Rather than who will be better Boston or Paige, I think we can look at this from a broader perspective. You don't necessarily need to have the best player in the country to win a national championship, but one of the best plus many very good players is a nice model.

Last year's team didn't quite have that elite talent. Megan and Crystal were very good players, but not at the star level of many of our championship teams that had lots of very good players plus a national star. The bench was also not deep. There was a drop off below the top three teams last year, all of which had that star player on a very high level.

In my opinion Boston showed enough last year to be pretty convinced she is a very high future WNBA draft pick. For the next three years South Carolina can be a contender if they surround her with very good players, some of which came in as freshmen with Boston in their great recruiting class, and they seem like their recruiting successes will continue. I fully expect them to be in the championship discussion for the rest of her career.

Paige is expected to be that kind of player as well, probably even more highly regarded coming out of high school, but of course untested at the collegiate level. It appears we too will have plenty of very good players to compliment her. With only one year separating South Carolina's great class and our's this year, these are two teams that should be near the top for the next several years, and both Boston and Paige appear to be the kind of players you could build a championship around.
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And both schools putting together very nice classes this year.

How long does the contract run?

2018-2019 total attendance:
1.UConn - - - - - - - - -38 - - - -288,433
2.Notre Dame39 273,063
3.South Carolina- - - -33 - - - -254,887
4.Mississippi St.36 248,267
 
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Argonaut said:
I think CW definitely has the potential to shoot over 40% from three. This season was definitely not indicative of her abilities.
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This year was totally between the ears for her.
 
JRRRJ said:
There is no "could" for Ania in this regard. She shot 25% from 3 for the first 8 games of her career.

She then led the team at 44.8% (52 of 116) for the next 24 games.

That's did, not could.
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She also shot over 41% for the year last year. Bueckers and Westbrook both have a good chance at topping the 40% mark next year as well. I also think that Williams will have a huge bounce back year next year and shooting over 40% is not out of the realm of possibility for her either.
 
Paige Bueckers enters the Pentagon and scores 30 against #1 Sioux Falls O'Gorman


The 8th game of 2018-19 had Hopkins traveling out-of-state to South Dakota to play in the Sanford Classic at Sioux Falls' Sanford Pentagon arena...Junior Paige Bueckers would score 30 with 5 assists and 5 steals.


 
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Alydar said:
UConn's offense will run much more efficiently next season and that usually translates into higher % shots for everyone.
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Maybe some of CW's shooting woes could be attributed to the loss of Katie Lou and Naphesa. For one they drew much of the attention of opponents defenses, but also they were good passers and of course were familiar with the system. Compared to Uconn standards in the past, it was not a particularly gifted group when it came to passing this last season.

In my opinion only one, Anna had special passing instincts. She comes back with two freshmen in Paige and Nika that appear to have that ability as well, and Westbrook adds some point guard skills to the mix as well.
 
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She likes jumping on Trampolines. That's cute. And her favorite player is Dee. Sweet kid. Kind of shy. Says she needs to work on her ball handling, especially with her left hand. Love her demeanor and attitude.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
At 1:10 Ms Lewis is asked if she has a dream school she wants to attend. You may have heard of it.


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I like her too. Very well spoken, and I like her choice of colleges she wants to attend. She won't graduate HS for 6 more years. Think of the growth and development she'll gain playing all of the "elite" club and HS basketball during that time. Geno and UConn is still attractive to the youngsters. With that outside shot, we could have used her THIS PAST YEAR!!! :eek:
 
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oldhuskie said:
Maybe some of CW's shooting woes could be attributed to the loss of Katie Lou and Naphesa. For one they drew much of the attention of opponents defenses, but also they were good passers and of course were familiar with the system. Compared to Uconn standards in the past, it was not a particularly gifted group when it came to passing this last season.

In my opinion only one, Anna had special passing instincts. She comes back with two freshmen in Paige and Nika that appear to have that ability as well, and Westbrook adds some point guard skills to the mix as well.
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Right on. For great stretches this year Liv had scoring challenges and Anna had her challenges early on and then there wasn't really a bench so she became a focus for the defense for the first rime and I think it got in her head.
 
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