Lotrader, does Coach Rueck seem like a portal guy? Some coaches seem to embrace it better than others and use it to fill in weaker areas and Rueck seem to be alot more old school. Maybe that is my bad perception alone. Not to say he won't use it seems some schools in the pac-12 are not shy at all shopping the portal.
We're going to find out....not a lot of alternatives!
Well considering UW has nothing slightly resembling a PG in their rotation and she couldn't get minutes there...
Btw, As an example, Taylor Chavez transferred out because she wanted to start and play a lot of minutes at Oregon which did not happen.
I hear she is just killing in down in Tuscon with her 14.9 minutes and 2.4 points per game average.
Besides, the potshots at Taylor sound like someone who has watched zero minutes of Arizona this year. Not a shock, tbh. Primary rotation players (Chavez is one of them) are playing very little in most of their games. Freshmen are getting a lot of minutes right now. It's called depth and development. None of the top 8-9 are playing more than about 21 minutes except Sam Thomas who plays about 25. In close games, they play more.
The pot shots taken at Oregon from someone who is out of state claiming they know they have zero chemistry sounds like sour grapes. Not a shock however.
I guess we can agree that Sabrina was selfish. We have heard that a thousand times that is the one and only reason she got the triple doubles. We have heard that narrative all before.
To @Jorislove--aren't you the poster who called N. Sabally a "ball hog" and (worse) "bully" in another thread? Both show just how little you know about--or care to know about--Oregon. And both, for me, disqualify you as being close to providing an informed perspective on the team. Moreover, the latter is simply insulting (and couldn't be more wrong). Don't know why you have such a problem with Graves et al., but maybe you should do a little more research before making pronouncements like that.
Pretty much summed it up very well.
Criticize with facts is one thing and hidden agendas is another.
I hope Prince is making money with the NIL deal, because she doesn't seem to be focused on basketball. It hurts the others who are at least working hard.
This was always going to be a tough road game for the Ducks. Impressed with the smooth efficiency of Ayoka Lee. Oregon played a pretty even game in rebound, turnovers, assists and the like. Their downfall was shooting pct. it was ouch. 33% overall, 28% from 3. Hurst, Parrish and Sabally combined for 5 for 23.
Prince is a disappointment. If she moves on after this year to something else I think it will help overall in the long run. I think what you see now is what you get. Nothing more and nothing less. She does not want to put the work into the basketball side. I don't think she is in the gym after hours working on her game but I have nothing to back that up that feeling.
What I see at this point is consistency. Give me a player or players that consistently scores around 10 points a game over 4, 18, 4,6, 23 and 5 and I think you can settle on a rotation. Right now it is in a mode of trying to find who can score. I think they are another two players away from swinging those games another way. There are a couple of promising recruits in the future that could help. I am expecting a lot from a future Vanslooten,
Spell check LOL I KNOW who Ayoka Lee is. Anyway I was most impressed. Smoothly scoring at will against a succession of Oregon bigs. The way she ate up the 6’8” rookie Kyei over a brief couple minutes…
Yea...she's the real deal.
I thought Lee had an impressive outing against Boston et al.