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Good football in 1-2 years? Hmm, maybe uconn should develop a good kinesiology or criminology dept.! If they don't have one now.
 
Very good to hear about the kinesiology program. Maybe Megan knows and that's an additional interest in uconn, besides championships.
 
Not sure if this replay or live but Walker is on TV playing Midlothian. She is playing well getting double team on every touch. She has a double double already.
 
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What a fit for UCONN.......Great smile, likes to play defense and likes a high power offensive team.......Can you spell UCONN?
 
There's already a "Walker" on the Wall, thanks to the great Kemba, but Megan has all-world potential. I sure hope we get her.
 
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Sluconn,
I was wondering what you thought of Megan' s game.
My thoughts that offensive she is college ready. Handle could use little tighten up shot is a little flat but she can flat out score and passes very well.
Defensively she got a ways to go to be NCAA ready and a longer way to be UCONN ready. She is a little too upright in her defensive stance and tends to play ole defense by swiping at the ball handler instead of staying in front of her person.
 
CocoHusky said:
Sluconn,
I was wondering what you thought of Megan' s game.
My thoughts that offensive she is college ready. Handle could use little tighten up shot is a little flat but she can flat out score and passes very well.
Defensively she got a ways to go to be NCAA ready and a longer way to be UCONN ready. She is a little too upright in her defensive stance and tends to play ole defense by swiping at the ball handler instead of staying in front of her person.
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I really haven't paid enough attention to Walker's defense to form an opinion. I've only seen her play a handful of times in AAU games prior to her sophomore year and didn't really notice her on that end. I'm not too concerned though considering she's athletic and smart enough to improve over the next few years. Let's face it, KLS will enter college with more defensive issues than Walker. Good coaching and experience should help her.

She's extremely gifted offensively. Very high BB IQ and lots of skill. Good outside shooter who'll never be on KML's level, but solid. Where I think she'll really excel is in midrange and driving to the basket. Really good athlete. A bit of a poor man's Maya Moore which is a huge compliment.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
If you can be Maya Mooreish without quite being Maya Moore, that's pretty great in my eyes.
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At the risk of quibbling about language, "poor man's" implies a bigger gap, and seems more negative than "not quite" Maya. (One assumes we're comparing the players at the same age.)

More of an (unintended, no doubt) slap, put-down or backhanded compliment. It emphasizes the comparative inferiority a bit more it says "close race."

"Poor man's" defined:

"someone or something that is similar to a well-known person or thing but is not as good" - thefreedictionary.com

"something or someone that can be compared to something or someone else, but is not as good is a poor man's version; a writer who uses lots of puns but isn't very funny would be a poor man's Oscar Wilde." - usingenglish.com

"a knock-off of inferior quality, or something similar to something else, but not as good." - Urban Dictionary.

"cheaper than, simpler than, or inferior to." - Wiktionary.org​

Perhaps you sensed this, hence felt the need to explain that you intended a compliment.
 
JS said:
Perhaps you sensed this, hence felt the need to explain that you intended a compliment.
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Actually, I didn't sense it at all. You just seemed to take the comment in a way not intended so I tried to explain it.

The first definition you list is where I was going and it is a compliment. I don't know how it could be seen as anything else.
 
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Sluconn Husky said:
You just seemed to take the comment in a way not intended so I tried to explain it.
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I'm referring to your voluntary original explanation - "which is a huge compliment" - not to your subsequent response to me.
Sluconn Husky said:
The first definition you list is where I was going and it is a compliment.
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Meant as such perhaps, but not effectively expressed as such. Putting aside the other three definitions, in which the pejorative connotation ranges from mild to severe, let's expand your preferred one to include the usage examples:

"someone or something that is similar to a well-known person or thing but is not as good. He was only ever a mediocre singer - they used to call him 'the poor man's Frank Sinatra'. 'So what did you think of the film?' 'It was just a poor man's 'Pulp Fiction'." ​

Now the pejorative comes through there too, does it not?
Sluconn Husky said:
I don't know how it could be seen as anything else [but a compliment].
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Therein lies the problem, with which I tried (unsuccessfully it seems) to be of assistance. If I wince at an inappropriate choice of words, I'm confident others will too.

As they did in prior threads where they perceived your player comparisons as knocking the "lesser" player or even multiple players ("plays like a walk-on").

It's not a matter of ill intent, maybe just a tonal deaf spot. Perhaps you're doomed to be misunderstood in this regard.

But you do good work. Just excellent in many ways. So what's a little malaprop among friends?
 
Sluconn Husky said:
Actually, I didn't sense it at all. You just seemed to take the comment in a way not intended so I tried to explain it.

The first definition you list is where I was going and it is a compliment. I don't know how it could be seen as anything else.
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FWIW, I took it as a compliment. "A bit" (a small piece,portion,or quantity) did precede " poor man's" which to me lessens the impact of "poor mans" even if you take "poor man's" in the pejorative sense. "A small piece" of "not as good as" equals almost as good as (i.e. Walker is almost as good as Moore at the same stage in their careers).
It seems to me that the intervention was splitting the thinnest of hairs.
 
I also took it as meaning "Maya Moore 'lite' " as in similar but the next notch down. To me this is a compliment, to even have Maya's name invoked at all as a descriptor. Perhaps I have not been using the qualifier "a poor man's" properly to this point :)
 
JS said:
I'm referring to your voluntary original explanation - "which is a huge compliment" - not to your subsequent response to me.
Meant as such perhaps, but not effectively expressed as such. Putting aside the other three definitions, in which the pejorative connotation ranges from mild to severe, let's expand your preferred one to include the usage examples:

"someone or something that is similar to a well-known person or thing but is not as good. He was only ever a mediocre singer - they used to call him 'the poor man's Frank Sinatra'. 'So what did you think of the film?' 'It was just a poor man's 'Pulp Fiction'." ​

Now the pejorative comes through there too, does it not?
Therein lies the problem, with which I tried (unsuccessfully it seems) to be of assistance. If I wince at an inappropriate choice of words, I'm confident others will too.

As they did in prior threads where they perceived your player comparisons as knocking the "lesser" player or even multiple players ("plays like a walk-on").

It's not a matter of ill intent, maybe just a tonal deaf spot. Perhaps you're doomed to be misunderstood in this regard.

But you do good work. Just excellent in many ways. So what's a little malaprop among friends?
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"So what's a little malaprop among friends?" hahaha

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rvwsleep said:
Very impressive and from a sophomore at that.
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She's going to be quite good.

For those clicking on the link, be sure to scan down. There are eight highlight vids in all. From the viewing stats it looks like people may just be seeing the first vid and assuming that's it.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
She's going to be quite good.

For those clicking on the link, be sure to scan down. There are eight highlight vids in all. From the viewing stats it looks like people may just be seeing the first vid and assuming that's it.
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I watched them all. Even though she has 2 more years of high school remaining, she looks almost college ready now. I can see why some are comparing her to Maya at the same age.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
She's going to be quite good.

For those clicking on the link, be sure to scan down. There are eight highlight vids in all. From the viewing stats it looks like people may just be seeing the first vid and assuming that's it.
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The assist number 1.3/game strike me as a little low, I realize that is like pointing out that Cindy Crawford has a mole.
 
CocoHusky said:
The assist number 1.3/game strike me as a little low, I realize that is like pointing out that Cindy Crawford has a mole.
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Assist stats in high school are really hard to make much out of. Consider that the terrific Asia Durr averaged exactly 2 per game for her entire high school career, and she played more of a point guard role than Walker does.
 
I like the alley oop inbounds play. She is way ahead of her competition on both the physical and skill level in these videos.
 
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