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@CocoHusky ,
@Fairfield Fan ,
@vowelguy ,
@MilfordHusky ,
@ucbart ,
@EricLA , and others will weigh in, so I will defer to my more knowledgeable posters, but here are my observations...
--- First, Fudd has a pro-level physique. She has strong, broad shoulders and balances that with an incredibly strong leg base. Her musculature is very impressive (especially for a player who is in high school who has yet to hit a college weight room). I have to go back to Monique Currie to find that type of physical strength in a high school recruit.
--- Second, I do not see the similarities to Diggins or Sims. Diggins is a scoring point guard; Sims is a combo guard who can pass, but is better paired with another facilitator. Fudd is primarily an off-guard with great handles, who is primarily a scorer but who can be a secondary facilitator at the collegiate level.
--- Third, Fudd has a tremendous ability to elevate and create space in front of her defender, especially in the mid-range, pairing that with a very high release point on her shot. In terms of elevation and smoothness of her mid-range game, the best HS recruit comparison I can come up with is Seimone Augustus.
--- Fourth, Fudd is incredible in terms of attacking players one-on-one, using her handles and sick crossovers, switching directions, contorting her body into positions where she can still square up for her shot, etc. Hard to find an exact comparison, but it is a weird hybrid of Diana Taurasi/Alana Beard, with a little bit of Ivory Latta's crossover thrown in.
--- Finally, in men's recruiting, we talk about players being "coaches' kids" - players who may not be the most athletic, but have a cerebral approach to the game based on being raised by parents who make their livings drawing up Xs and Os and designing offensive/defensive sets. And there are "players' kids," when you see former stars have children who have inherited their gifts.
In Fudd's case, she has both. Her mother is Katie Smrcka-Duffy, who was the USA Today National Player of the Year as a junior and senior. She was ACC ROY at NC State, before transferring to Georgetown, where she was All-Big East Second Team for her sophomore, junior, and senior seasons. Amazingly enough, Smrcka-Duffy ranks in the top five in numerous Georgetown categories (including scoring), despite the fact she only played three years there.
Fudd's father is Tim Fudd, who played collegiately at American, where he was a two-time selection to the All-Colonial Athletic Association Team (and was the team leader in scoring one year). He also was an assistant men's basketball coach for Longwood for six years, helping the Lancers to its most successful Division I season in program history.
In other words, Fudd balances the incredible talent of her mother (and her father had an impressive basketball career in his own right) with the cerebral nature of the game passed on by her father, in terms of coaching Xs and Os.
