Meet Napheesa Collier

[HuskyNan]

Meet Napheesa Collier, granddaughter to a Sierra Leone revolutionary and top UConn recruit, Channel 8

 

[CocoHusky]

Chocolate cake & a 4.0 GPA! How am I going to possible break the news to Maya that she has been surpassed on my adoration meter among UCONN players.

 

[connboy77]

I just love Napheesa's game; she can do it all. Before this young lady is done she will be one of UCONN'S all time greats. The future looks very good for UCONN.

 

[JavaMan]

The future looks very good for UCONN.

Indeed it does! This is going to be exciting.

 

[UCAP_Fan]

Chocolate cake! Another SEC complaint coming against Geno.

 

[jimazee]

Wow.

She sounds like a terrific young woman and (of course bball player) that will fit perfectly into the next iteration of THE Huskies.

Funny how UConn manages to luckily find and attract such talented people. N'est-ce pas?

 

[Kibitzer]

Chocolate cake! Another SEC complaint coming against Geno.

I can see it now: "Chocolate CakeGate."

I can also see a similarity of Napheesa to Swin Cash. If so, I'll take it.

(So will Geno.)

 

[Bonpland]

I was (correctly I think) taken to task on another thread for overrating athleticism and not giving enough due to skill. I said that we will be wowed next season when Moriah, Gabby and Collier are on the court together streaking past opponents, and that this will be our fastest team. It may prove to be correct that I am wrong to think that the number one player in the country (KLS) will be second to Collier on this team in the future, but day by day Napheesa seems more and more like the second coming of Maya. That's blasphemous of course because Maya was the greatest college basketball player I ever saw. (I say that while DT's #3 jersey hangs upstairs on my daughter's bedroom wall, seven years after she went off to college).

Maybe what we will have two years from now is the greatest one-two combo in UCONN history. A "pick your poison" nightly choice for opposing coaches to decide how to defend an extraordinarily well coached, explosive offense.

Oh wait, we have that now already. So maybe what we'll have is the joy of watching the UCONN legend grow in the hands of another group of mature young women.

 

[tonehill68]

Chocolate cake! Another SEC complaint coming against Geno.

Same thought I had.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I'm waiting for the 82 point free wings thing to be the subject of an SEC complaint. No, I mean it!

 

[TroyHouse66]

Chocolate ice cream & Triple-Champion Chunk!!
Ah, the breakfast of Champions...

(w/ Notre Dame for dessert?)

[Oh, you KNOW I mean invite them for dessert... they don't have their own Dairy Bar.]

 

[BroadwayVa]

Meet Napheesa Collier, granddaughter to a Sierra Leone revolutionary and top UConn recruit, Channel 8

OooPs here we go again---someone Orange will tell the SEC then The NCAA that Geno oversized her piece of cake--Chocolate at that!!!
VIO ===La--Shun!! Everything I read about this young woman is so uplifting---I remember in MY youth the hundereds of relatives and being around them was great--she did too. Thank You NAN this was a great find..

 

[BroadwayVa]

I was (correctly I think) taken to task on another thread for overrating athleticism and not giving enough due to skill. I said that we will be wowed next season when Moriah, Gabby and Collier are on the court together streaking past opponents, and that this will be our fastest team. It may prove to be correct that I am wrong to think that the number one player in the country (KLS) will be second to Collier on this team in the future, but day by day Napheesa seems more and more like the second coming of Maya. That's blasphemous of course because Maya was the greatest college basketball player I ever saw. (I say that while DT's #3 jersey hangs upstairs on my daughter's bedroom wall, seven years after she went off to college).

Maybe what we will have two years from now is the greatest one-two combo in UCONN history. A "pick your poison" nightly choice for opposing coaches to decide how to defend an extraordinarily well coached, explosive offense.

Oh wait, we have that now already. So maybe what we'll have is the joy of watching the UCONN legend grow in the hands of another group of mature young women.

Your first paragraph about "those 3" has my heart thumping. DT, Maya, Lobo, and 100 other Uconn/s were GREAT--some just greater--but it is NEVER blasphemous to select another incoming great and hope for greater--I hope so too..

 

[BroadwayVa]

It's amazing how many knew immediately the results of a larger size piece of Chocolate cake for a certain college, in a certain league, to a certain national sports organization to against a certain wize cracking philly kid.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Chocolate cake & a 4.0 GPA! How am I going to possible break the news to Maya that she has been surpassed on my adoration meter among UCONN players.

Is EVERYONE born in Jefferson City, MO like this?? Recruiting would be much simpler if it were true.

Slightly hyperbolic, but this recruiting class includes De'Janae, Maya, and Elena.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Chocolate cake! Another SEC complaint coming against Geno.

I just bet that Geno fed Maya some Red Velvet cake.

 

[CocoHusky]

Chocolate cake! Another SEC complaint coming against Geno.

I'm not sure The Pheenom would qualify for any SEC school-Her GPA is too high.

 

[hoophuskee]

I was (correctly I think) taken to task on another thread for overrating athleticism and not giving enough due to skill. I said that we will be wowed next season when Moriah, Gabby and Collier are on the court together streaking past opponents, and that this will be our fastest team. It may prove to be correct that I am wrong to think that the number one player in the country (KLS) will be second to Collier on this team in the future, but day by day Napheesa seems more and more like the second coming of Maya. That's blasphemous of course because Maya was the greatest college basketball player I ever saw. (I say that while DT's #3 jersey hangs upstairs on my daughter's bedroom wall, seven years after she went off to college).

Maybe what we will have two years from now is the greatest one-two combo in UCONN history. A "pick your poison" nightly choice for opposing coaches to decide how to defend an extraordinarily well coached, explosive offense.

Oh wait, we have that now already. So maybe what we'll have is the joy of watching the UCONN legend grow in the hands of another group of mature young women.

I have no idea who will be better between KLS and NC. But I will say this you are going to love them both- but in regards to KLS think about these past years fastbreaks-- opposing team guards are back on defense, thess past years - ball gets passed to KML- if the guards are close enough they have enough size for KML to not shoot. Now- with KLS if her opposing sf isn't back- these opposing guards better be at least 6 foot with long arms. KLS shoots the ball high and has a quick release. Further, Geno has on one occasion called KLS "a guard." Thus if NC or GW are in playing sf- they'll be able to guard the quicker of the sg/sf.

 

[CL82]

I'm waiting for the 82 point free wings thing to be the subject of an SEC complaint. No, I mean it!

Game fixing.

 

[AnotherVolFan]

I'm not sure The Pheenom would qualify for any SEC school-Her GPA is too high.

Excuse me.... But was it that you're trying to insinuate? I have an idea but, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong....

 

[Sluconn Husky]

 

[Gus Mahler]

TOO cute!!

Classy, thy name is Napheesa.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Piece on Collier winning Miss Show-Me; also in the recruit thread:

https://mosports.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1761021

 

[CocoHusky]

It's amazing how many knew immediately the results of a larger size piece of Chocolate cake for a certain college, in a certain league, to a certain national sports organization to against a certain wize cracking philly kid.

What???? Can you pleasew explain for the rest of us that did not know immediately?

 

[CocoHusky]

Excuse me.... But was it that you're trying to insinuate? I have an idea but, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong....

Lighten up- Just having fun at the expense of the entire SEC. Everyone knows there are good schools in the SEC-take Vandy for example. I borrowed that from a T-shirt I saw at Duke which read. " My rejection letter from Duke came with an application to UNC."