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Message: [QUOTE="Bronx23, post: 2642356, member: 8501"] First of all, I was rather disappointed in KLS play this game as she was so passive offensively. This I think happens with her periodically and she needs to work to overcome it and that may be the difference for her from getting closer to the very best we have seen here. As to why I am seemingly so negative about MW we can begin with the title of this thread. To simplify it she's becoming an emerging Redwood. PLEASE! I read regular, consistent comments from posters here claiming she will be a star, AA and even NPOY. Lets first solidify consistently being the 7th player and a regular, meaningful contributor, which every person here has been waiting for and is badly needed. Yes CD had a similar rough freshman year and I had similar concerns about her last season. Yes maybe she was #3-7 of the top HS players and not #1 but there wasn't the blind hopefulness I read that exists with MW. Obviously she has put it all together and now she is an essential part of this team and one of the better point guards in the country. I, and most if not all of us, don't know the work and effort, as well as mental energy she put in last spring and summer to emerge where she now is. I very much hope for the same from MW but it shouldn't be just handed to her. She needs to earn it. In both cases, I think maybe 75% is the emotional / psychological aspects of the game that held both of them back. Almost always Geno, CD and the other coaches are very focused on this aspect of a players HS career, their psychological /emotional make up and even the manner in which their parents respond and engage in their daughters development as bb players and human beings. So that is actually the main thing that makes me, give MW the benefit of the doubt, that the light will come on and she will fulfill her potential. A small part of me, which also sees her strength as those aspects you described, wonder if they fully translate at the top of the women's college game. I apologize for harping on this but this program and culture is built on meeting extremely high expectations; assumed constant great effort from each player every moment; ones demeanor, involvement in the game and their responses when one is on the bench; and many other things. No one ever gets a pass, even when they were the best player in HS. I just want to see it from her consistently on and off the court. Also I fully get she's a freshman and this is a process that seems to take almost everyone that has come here, except for the great ones, a year to put together and that I buy and even embrace. So I hope she can do this, likely it will be seen, when she arrives on campus next fall, raring and ready to go, just like CD did this year. And maybe it even takes her a bit longer or maybe she doesn't reach the BYers and her expectations, that too while disappointing will be ok. Bronx23 [/QUOTE]

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