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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4957541, member: 1131"] Somehow I landed on the mailing list for "The Next", an email newsletter about WBB, both college and pro. This morning they produced a new mock draft with extremely detailed evaluations of each player. They had Aaliyah at #4, behind only Clark, Brink, and a Spanish point guard. They projected her "Future Value" as an above-average WNBA starter. More relevant to this thread, they have Nika at #13. I'm going to take a slight liberty (no pun intended) and try to paste in their full evaluation of Nika, since I don't have any way to link to an email. Here it is: [TABLE] [TR] [TD][HEADING=2]13. Nika Mühl, point guard, UConn[/HEADING][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Age:[/B] 23[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Height:[/B] 5'10[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Wingspan:[/B] 5'9[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Offensive style:[/B] Primary ball-handler[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Defensive style:[/B] Point of attack[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Similar to: [/B][URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71154']Ticha Penicheiro[/URL], [URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71155']Ricky Rubio[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][LEFT][/LEFT] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71156']Nika Mühl[/URL] has shown exactly the kind of player she is over and over in her time at Connecticut: A hard-nosed defender who will take on the most difficult perimeter assignment, run the offense, and hit the occasional spot-up three at a fairly high rate.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Mühl is very much a traditional point guard. She is the all-time assists leader at UConn, an excellent passer and active playmaker who runs offense at a very high level. She has proven herself to be a reluctantly capable shooter, and isn’t going to do much in terms of creating her own shot. Mühl’s shooting form is clunky and she does not have the quickest release, but she has made 37% of her 3-pointers over the last two seasons. She can pass off of the drive as well, but given her reluctance to actually get to the rim and finish, defenses don’t exactly go into rotation to have to stop her.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Defense is what makes Mühl a WNBA prospect. She doesn’t have gaudy block or steal numbers but she’s fundamentally sound, supremely quick and extraordinarily strong for a guard. She consistently blows up actions before they can get started because of her positioning and anticipation, and provides elite ball pressure and ball-denial. She loves to pick up opposing ball handlers full-court and deny them the ball in the halfcourt, and she does it all without fouling much — as Clark learned the hard way last Friday. But for a guard as good at defending in isolation as Mühl is, she is surprisingly average at navigating ball screens, though given her ability to flip her hips on the drive, that may be teachable.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Why she'll succeed: [/B]Mühl shows herself to be one of the best guard defenders in the world and ups her shooting volume to command enough defensive attention to open her passing and game-management.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Why she'll fail:[/B] Mühl continues to pass up open shots, fails to make defenses care about her when she has the ball, and her defense slides a bit with more ball screen reps and without the Huskies’ defensive infrastructure.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Ceiling comps:[/B] [URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71157']Jasmine Thomas[/URL], [URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71158']Rajon Rondo[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Floor comps:[/B] If [URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71159']Tully Bevilaqua[/URL] was a reluctant shooter, [URL='https://megdal.bluelena.io/lt.php?s=80585880a42178c18632a0db87754fd1&i=2963A2971A2A71160']Kendall Marshall[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Their overall evaluation is that she is a draftable reserve in the WNBA. [/QUOTE]

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