Paige Bueckers to UConn

[Carnac]

I'm buying what you're selling!

Me too, and double my bags please.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

By adding the five-star rated and top ranked player in the class, Connecticut is getting an elite recruit with the characteristics to be successful under the microscope there.


“From my initial evaluation on Bueckers as an eighth grader, it was evident that she had a chance to be special,” Brandon Clay, publisher of ProspectsNation.com said. “Her scoring prowess was on full display back then as she dropped 22 points on seven of nine shooting including six of seven from 3-point range a varsity game as an 8th grader. She only played 15 minutes. That said, Bueckers should have an opportunity to step on Campus in Storrs and provide the Husky faithful with more of the same consistent production that she's brought to the hardwood since that cold December day in 2015. Her ability to play handle the ball coupled with the skill to score puts me in the mind of the legendary Sue Bird during her Christ The King days.”

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Her play at the USA Basketball trials this past spring showed she is a full on playmaker. She scored the ball effortlessly against the best competition you can find and found ways to get set up teammates as well. It’s one thing to be ranked No. 1 and it’s another to play like the best guard in the class.


Bueckers is the first commitment for Connecticut in the 2020 class that is loaded with talent at the top.


Bueckers Next Step Is Storrs | Prospects Nation

 

[Sluconn Husky]

 

[Sluconn Husky]

For those who didn't see it in the recruiting thread last year, here is the Capital Classic All-Star game from DC starring Paige Bueckers (#1), Azzi Fudd (#35), and Angel Reese (#10) all on the same team.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Here are two Minnesota HS sports reporters talking about one of them dubbing her the best HS player to ever come out of Minnesota (and yeah she ain't left yet!). Listen: Is UConn-bound Paige Bueckers No. 1 all-time? Has prep recruiting become too over-heated?

And for those who would rather read. It seems Paige and Katie Lou share an affinity for the game slop bucket!

Paige Bueckers: Minnesota's best ever?

 

[UConnCat]

 

[CocoHusky]

Smart girl that Paige.
"You can't change Coach Geno's mind."

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Paige participating in the Next Gen camp right now:

 

[Charliebball]

Paige participating in the Next Gen camp right now:

never doubted she was extra special from the first video I watched..................

 

[pvdoggy]

never doubted she was extra special from the first video I watched...

but, but, but.... she did not even make USA-Today First Team

 

[Charliebball]

but, but, but.... she did not even make USA-Today First Team

I've never been big on individual honors..........................too much politics involved..................now winning NC's, that's a different matter............

 

[MilfordHusky]

Add a digit to "1." Number 10 is available. Grab it now, because it will be retired in about 7 years.

 

[UConnNick]

Maybe she should wear No. 10, and cover the zero with colored tape matching whichever uniform color she's wearing. Geno would probably get a kick out of it, right up until he rips off the colored tape.

 

[iri10]

Geno doesn't like his players to wear number 1, true, and he also doesn't like the number 0.

It sounds like he has an anti-computer bias to me.

 

[meyers7]

Geno doesn't like his players to wear number 1, true, and he also doesn't like the number 0.

It sounds like he has an anti-computer bias to me.

There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

[oldude]

There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

I hate it when people make you think hard early in the day....

 

[Bama fan]

I hate it when people make you think hard early in the day....

Just be grateful that he did not hex you!

 

[hussybulldog]

Add a digit to "1." Number 10 is available. Grab it now, because it will be retired in about 7 years.

11 could work as well! double No.1

 

[ClifSpliffy]

hmmm, buckets? UConn? … hey! Paige Buckets! sweeeeet.

 

[Zorro]

How does one pronounce Beukers, anyway?

 

[Sluconn Husky]

How does one pronounce Beukers, anyway?

Beckers.

Silent "U".

 

[Blueballer]

How does one pronounce Beukers, anyway?

Beckers

 

[MilfordHusky]

How does one pronounce Beukers, anyway?

Buckets.

 

[MilfordHusky]

11 could work as well! double No.1

Right, she could follow in the footsteps of Ketia Swanier. Or she could be the last person to wear #10 before it's retired. A certain PG should be in the Naismith Hall of Fame in about 7 years. You know, the one who will have 5 Olympic Gold Medals.

 

[BobbyJ]

How does one pronounce Beukers, anyway?

"Money".