Absolutely. That's not the right question though because we are not debating if UCONN was a Dynasty- that would be kind of pointless. The right question is has that UCONN Dynasty ended? Recall my original post.
Beaver Nation's Beaveroracle posted today that Talia has verbaled to Oregon State, citing an anonymous source. Don't know much about Beaveroracle's reputation, but the rumor has been received well by fans in Corvallis who are desperate for a point guard for 2021.
Beaver fan, but I will only believe it when I see it (an actual commitment by her). I just wish folks wouldn't start rumors like this.
Provided that they are going to be doing more than just setting screens and their offense mostly coming from getting putbacks by grabbing offensive rebounds from missed 3 pointers. Has Hillsman ever ran his offense through his post players before?
Lattimore is not an inside player though more slashing/finesse 3 and stretch 4. Cardosa was always lacking dominance on HS level. Don't forget Martinez outplayed Cardosa in the post on the ESPN tournament when Cardosa was a junior. On the AAU circuit when Cardosa was paired with Cochran it was Cochran doing the inside damage. Even UCONN's 5'11" Mir matched up pretty well with Cardosa on the AAU circuit briefly. At 6'7" and with her build Cardosa has the potential to be dominant but I have not seen it at the prep level. Cardosa rebounds her area welll but she does not carve out additional space like you would think she would. I'm also not sure Q knows what to do with a post player, he'll probably have her shooting 3s by December I bet.
You mean the Van Lith rumor was a lesson?
I wouldn’t disagree with this regarding Cardoso. She always seemed to just use her height and quickness versus establishing position. With her being a pretty good leaper I always thought she relied too much on that. Against a vast majority of opposing teams that will be enough. Having Treasure Hunt playing along side her hindered her having to be too aggressive on the rebounding front as Hunt is a capable rebounder. The players you referenced had to learn to box out or they would get abused. I’m curious to whether she learns that skill when she is consistently going against players close to her height and build.
I don't think that Van Lith was really interested in attending Oregon State, so any rumor to that effect wasn't very well informed.
Hailey Van Lith may not have been seriously interested, but boy was there a lot of heavy speculation that she was, to the point where whether there was any basis in it, I think most people around here were under the impression that OSU was neck and neck with Louisville right up to the end. Funny how these rumors can take on a life of their own.
I think that Beaver Nation was a bit giddy during the Van Lith recruitment that Oregon State was mentioned among the finalists. Van Lith attended OSU basketball camps with her high school team, but reportedly did not take an official visit to Corvallis despite the fact that her brother played minor league baseball in that city.
Someone on the Stanford board thinks it came down to whether TVO wants to play PG (then OSU) or SG/W (then Stanford). What I don't understand is that ESPN Hoopgurlz classifies her as a 5'11" wing, which would not strike me as a prototypical PG (though perhaps is closer to the prototypical OSU point guard). Do you know if they misclassified her or if she just wants to swap roles for college ball? I also wouldn't necessarily view Harriel as a threat to TVO's playing time because Stanford is going to be loaded with bigs in the 2019-2021 recruiting classes (Prechtel, Belibi, Brink, Demetre, and hopefully Iriafen), so there will be a lot of playing time in the 1-3 roles, and Harriel is more of a combo guard than point guard, so I suspect if anything the main competition for PG duties will be Jana Van Gytenbeek from the 2020 class and, hopefully, Kiki Rice in the class of 2022.
I sweated mostly. I did consider that dynasty over and "temporarily" replace by TN-talk about something to really gasp at. But then UCONN came roaring back and the universe righted itself. Pretty much the same thing I'm encouraging you to do now-sweat temporarily. BTW I don't think South Carolina is the current Dynasty. I don't think there is a current Dynasty.
ESPN rating are based on projections of the position the player will play at the college level. TVO is not that different than say Saylor or Citron or Rivers in that they are the HS team's primary ball handler and defacto PG. Dan Olson tends to discount that because they are not going to be the team's primary ball handler at the next level.
Wait what? Is Q still their coach? Then NO, they are not going or would be running the ACC with Lattimore...SMH...
ND has been as good or had more success in the last five years as SC and no one is calling them a dynasty. SC has won one championship, had an outstanding recruiting class, and was rated number one at the end of this season. There was no guarantee they would have won it all this past season and even if they had they would not be considered a dynasty A number of teams have won back to back championships and then faded, never to win another championship. A dynasty is built over many successful years of winning championships and in some cases dominating the sport they are in. At least that is the way I look at it. What WBB team has done that in the last fifteen to twenty years? Alabama and New England did it in football. I agree with you Coco.
