The heavy recruiting job Geno did on Collier would seem to support your conclusion. Geno gave her goals for each game? Do I understand he was in effect coaching her in high school? Let's not tell Nashville about this. But Olivia looks like a much different player than Charli. I think they could play together. But as one poster pointed out, There seems not to be any evidence of interest by UConn in Olivia or vice versa.
I'm having much more trouble projecting her as a college wing, she will be a 4/5 hybrid like Brianna Turner at ND pictured here in HS.
I would have to disagree. It's early. ONO had the better summer and moved to #1 in the class. Still plenty of time: almost 2 full season of HS basketball left + 1 more season of high level AAU ball left + USA basketball for each of the next two summers.
Thanks, Slu.
Are you hoping Dawn will deliver Ododa for South Carolina?What's with all of this Nelson-Ododa talk all of a sudden... Has there been active involvement between the two? Did she receive an offer or something?
I thought UConn was pursuing Shakira Austin at the 5.
I would prefer Geno Auriemma stay out of the Nelson-Ododa sweepstakes.
Perhaps Christyn Williams and a post.
Fortunately we are limited to 15 gold coins.
.... there is hope for UCONN still because she also has not had in home visits with any other schools. ONO's mother accompanied her on last USA basketball trip and she seems like a very thoughtful lady. I believe it was Mom who decided no in home visits during the in home last period.
@Charliebball , I can't find your post where you mentioned that Christyn Williams seems to have expanded her list of schools lately-At least I think it was you.
What's with all of this Nelson-Ododa talk all of a sudden...
I had almost forgotten until you reposted the article. ONO is and has been a Georgia WCBB season ticket holder for a while. Even before she began to blow up she was though to be a heavy Georgia lean. It might take a might effort to pry her out of Georgia.
I do think those highlights show Ododa moving too easily through players, no defense. This makes it impossible to gauge her true effectiveness. However we do see her athletic fluidity and speed. Somebody should make a highlight video of her U17 games.
I live in Athens Georgia, home of the University of Georgia. If ONO is not going to U"Conn, nothing would please me more than to have her join the bulldogs. UGA has lost so much in-state talent to schools with more successful basketball programs. It is difficult to even hope that ONO will stay home. The University is 20 minutes from her home.
Got a story relating to this Ono. Paul McCartney for years refused to talk about his relationship with her and what went down. Once however he was on the Howard Stern show and was quite revealing. He said for years Yoko insisted she didn't know who the Beatles were before she met John, but previous to John she'd literally knocked on his door to meet Paul and establish a relationship. He said she poisoned John against him by telling him that Paul wanted to replace him with someone else in the band (untrue), that the band shouldn't be a democracy and that he, John, should be the leader. Also of course while attempting to push this pop band further into social activancy. He said after the bands breakup she poisoned John's ear with "Why do people think Paul is so great when you're the better songwriter?". John would later go on to tell one reporter how much he disliked "tunesmiths". It certainly didn't stop Paul from becoming the more popular and most successfull post Beatle, Beatle. After John's death Paul bought and owned the Beatles canon for awhile. He wanted to change the writers rubric to McCartney/Lennon only on the songs that he'd obviously wrote like "Yesterday". She refused to sign off on it. During these later years they've achieved a sort of detente, especially after the death of Paul's wife.
