2025 Recruiting: Lara Somfai
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I've been hopeful and ?? confident about Lara for a few years now. I don't
know all of the variables for this type of decision, but I just sense that
she is an excellent "fit" for UCONN: skill, temperament, and "The Smile"!
Did I mention that she is 6' 4" and already plays with Kelis?? Yes, and Yes!
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Agreed......she's a great fit for UConn and has consistently shown a lot of interest in the program.......still I'm not counting my chickens with the way the recruiting game is being played these days.....
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Not to overanalyze, but I thought it was interesting she has posted pictures from her UConn visit and Stanford visit on her main Instagram feed, but not from her Duke visit (she posted stuff on her story). But it makes me wonder if she’s saving the pictures of her Duke visit for a commitment announcement? Just a theory, I know Kara Lawson unfollowed her, so it’s probably nothing.
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Duke doesn’t do photo shoots on visits. So it’s not out of the ordinary that she didn’t post pics from that visit.
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Just like Dionne Warwick: " Wishing and Hoping, and Thinking and Praying" ( B.Bacharach (sp) and H. David song, remember
that tune?)
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are you sure about that?? Maybe its a pic from after commitment in my mind but I recall seeing Cooper Flagg pic.
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That’s men’s basketball. Kara doesn’t do it. They can do a photo shoot once they have committed. No player who has been on an official visit to Duke during Kara’s tenure has done one.
Definitely overanalyzing. Very unlikely that Somfai ends up in Durham.
This is true. You don't wear the uni until you make the choice to join the Sisterhood.
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as it should be everywhere........
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I see this as a good omen. Lara is a "jewel" of a basketball player. Any
Australians out there will know the inference. GO LARA!!, come to Storrs!
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Lara Somfai: She's tall, 6' 4" she scores from underneath (note the
video highlight ... scoring through contact,... she
scores from the outside, she dribbles very nicely, and she has
great court awareness. Oh... She also has a great smile.
My hopes continue!
Lara represents a potential "big" change in next year's lineup. If we get her, for once the option of going really big will be there. Both she and Sarah have perimeter skills, so we could use three bigs with those two joining Jana. Sarah could be quite comfortable at the 3 or 4, and Lara might be able to play some there too. Conceivably those three could start with two guards, or possibly those three could be a tight big rotation at the 4 & 5, that didn't even have to go to players like Ice, Ayanna or Gandy unless they matched the output of those three.
Many assumptions there, namely that all of Lara, Sarah and Jana are the real deal and we get Lara, but I think all of those questions have pretty good odds at the moment.
Many assumptions there, namely that all of Lara, Sarah and Jana are the real deal and we get Lara, but I think all of those questions have pretty good odds at the moment.
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I thought Lara was UConn lean for a long time, and predicted her coming our way. However, after her Stanford visit she's been liking a lot of their social media on Instagram, and not seeing her liking UConn's anymore.
I know social media doesn't tell the whole story, but just trying to read the ole tea leaves. I'm sure we will know soon enough.
I know social media doesn't tell the whole story, but just trying to read the ole tea leaves. I'm sure we will know soon enough.
I noticed myself that she’s active with each of her three finalists on social media. She’s liked a bunch of recent posts on the UConn page, most recently of Jana & Sarah posted about an hour ago.
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Has Lara set a date to announce her commitment?
Oh boy. Praying it's us.
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Currently, with Jana, Sarah both freshmen in eligibility and both Ayanna and Ice sophomore (redshirted for a year)...as well as an incoming big from Ireland next year with only Paige, Kaitlyn, Aubrey leaving, would she decide for UConn? Well, it is possible that Azzi might leave but that doesn't change the crowded frontcourt.
As for the notion of having multiple bigs on court at the same time, for UConn's style of play, these will have to be bigs who can run, preferably fast. Sarah, Ice and Ayanna are moderate bigs who can move quickly and run fast and Jana is a big, big who can do the same. If a big, big who is slow and ponderous, is that good for the UConn style of playing fast as well as read and react switching defense? I don't think so.
I haven't seen her and UConn has heavily recruited her, so she probably can move and for all I know she is moves faster than Jana.....though I believe only Stewie definitely could (e.g, those chase down blocks), maybe Kiah, too?, though she is not your idea of a big, big.
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