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oldude said:
Something to consider about Paige and Aubrey’s return. In about 6 weeks, the transfer portal will be open for business. While you never know who might turn up in the portal, it’s almost unimaginable that UConn could land not one, but two transfers who could possibly have a bigger impact next season than Paige & Aubrey. Add in that they both know the system and UConn will likely be ranked as a preseason top 5 WBB team once again.
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?????????????

Ummm-- noooo. :)
 
Tonyc said:
Tuff predicament for UConn. Alot of questions and I believe Geno knows already for the most part who's staying and who's turning pro and if Sara is coming. One thing you've got to remember. Geno said months ago he has two of the top 4 recruits and Sara is the only one left. Another thing Geno said was I will retire when I stop getting top recruits. Things can change but I feel alot depends on alot of decisions by our current players.

My opinion on Sara is she comes to UConn. Why is she waiting to commit, I dont know however many of your posts have made references to why and they all seem very logical. Now I know for a fact that Dawn has been made a big push to get Sara. I was told Dawn and her staff attended Saras, Senior Nigt. I was also told that Aja Wilson and Aaliyah Boston have been to Saras games. With that said does SC have room for Sara to play starter minutes? Well SC has Joyce Edwards coming and shes the number 2 player in the class and at 6'2 plays the same position as Sara. If you look at SC's roster and who's committed you have to wonder who will get starter minutes and who wont and how that could effect their roster next season??????????

I have always believed that top players expect starter minutes. Paige Azzi and Sara were all ranked number 1. Caroline ICE and Zeibell were ranked top 5. Jana came along way to play here and I would think shes another who is looking at starter minutes. ICE Shade and KK all have seen alot of minutes this year too. So I would think Geno is going 10-11 deep next season depending again on players decisions. We have a very powerful team if healthy next season. A whole lot of fire power and we will be very difficult to beat. It will be a few more weeks before we hear from everybody.
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Tony a very good, well-thought out post.

However, 2 points-one important and one kind of a throwaway : As a courtesy to an important recruit, it would be nice to spell her name correctly. It's Sarah not Sara; A 2nd point which doesn't deserve a comment by itself-I know you have a few special Tony spellings (e.g. tuff) but fyi, the word you often mean is lose (as in defeated) or sometime loss or lost, but not loose (as in something that needs to be tightened).

Regardless, I always enjoy and look forward to your posts.
 
ERWUC65 said:
These two are having their best years and WNBA money probably better than NIL if they stayed. If Alliyah continues her great play, she will be a top 5 pick and Nika probably top 20. With the UConn health jinx they are better off to go while they are healthy. With Paige staying and KK improving, plus 2 incoming freshman (Ziebell & Cheli), Nika might be struggling for playing time.
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Also... this is a time for Aaliyah to focus on the Canadian National Team and the OLYMPICS???
 
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hoophuskee said:
?????????????

Ummm-- noooo. :)
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Zarathustra said:
Another NOOOO.
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I think that you are misinterpreting the original post.
My interpretation of the post made by @oldude is that there's no two players that enter the portal that could possibly make a bigger impact for UConn than Paige and Aubrey.
If this is the correct interpretation, I agree 100%.
No player in WBB can make a bigger impact with UConn than Paige. Period.
 
Centerstream said:
I think that you are misinterpreting the original post.
My interpretation of the post made by @oldude is that there's no two players that enter the portal that could possibly make a bigger impact for UConn than Paige and Aubrey.
If this is the correct interpretation, I agree 100%.
No player in WBB can make a bigger impact with UConn than Paige. Period.
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I would suggest that no two players “likely” to enter the portal could possibly make a bigger impact for UConn than Paige and Aubrey. Now if both Caitlin Clark & JuJu Watkins both enter the portal I might need to reconsider that comment. :)
 
oldude said:
I would suggest that no two players “likely” to enter the portal could possibly make a bigger impact for UConn than Paige and Aubrey. Now if both Caitlin Clark & JuJu Watkins both enter the portal I might need to reconsider that comment. :)
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I get it now. I was wondering how you could think there are players that might be more impactful than Paige.

Back to the men's game. :)
 
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MilfordHusky said:
How does a lineup of Edwards, Strong, Fudd, Buckers, and Muhl sound?
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That is an unlikely scenario. Edwards and Muhl are going to the pros and are not coming back to UCONN. Now, how about Bueckers, Fudd, Strong, El Alfy and Griffin.
 
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BobbyJ said:
Yes, I just linked another article in the post from Dec. 2023 that is 15. So I wonder which one is right. Must be the newer article?
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In most places, basketball means men’s basketball. We’re not used to that in Connecticut

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  • Division 1 women’s basketball scholarships per team: 15
  • Total number of D1 women’s basketball teams: 349
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I would expect the starting lineup for next year to be Bueckers - Shade - Arnold - Fudd - El Alfy with Griffin and Ducharme first off the bench.
 
Tonyc said:
Tuff predicament for UConn. Alot of questions and I believe Geno knows already for the most part who's staying and who's turning pro and if Sara is coming. One thing you've got to remember. Geno said months ago he has two of the top 4 recruits and Sara is the only one left. Another thing Geno said was I will retire when I stop getting top recruits. Things can change but I feel alot depends on alot of decisions by our current players.

My opinion on Sara is she comes to UConn. Why is she waiting to commit, I dont know however many of your posts have made references to why and they all seem very logical. Now I know for a fact that Dawn has been made a big push to get Sara. I was told Dawn and her staff attended Saras, Senior Nigt. I was also told that Aja Wilson and Aaliyah Boston have been to Saras games. With that said does SC have room for Sara to play starter minutes? Well SC has Joyce Edwards coming and shes the number 2 player in the class and at 6'2 plays the same position as Sara. If you look at SC's roster and who's committed you have to wonder who will get starter minutes and who wont and how that could effect their roster next season??????????

I have always believed that top players expect starter minutes. Paige Azzi and Sara were all ranked number 1. Caroline ICE and Zeibell were ranked top 5. Jana came along way to play here and I would think shes another who is looking at starter minutes. ICE Shade and KK all have seen alot of minutes this year too. So I would think Geno is going 10-11 deep next season depending again on players decisions. We have a very powerful team if healthy next season. A whole lot of fire power and we will be very difficult to beat. It will be a few more weeks before we hear from everybody.
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No matter where Sarah goes, UConn or SC, she will as a freshman have to do well in practice to be a starter. SC will be loaded next year, but UConn will be even deeper when you consider next years starting five, Paige, Aubrey (if 100%), Azzi, El Alfy, Shade or KK. Even with that lineup, Geno will probably have to give a lot of PT to Zweibel if she lives up to her billing. Sarah could break into that starting lineup and very well might as she is a terrific outside shooter also, but there’s no guarantee, since she’d be competing with El Alfy, Ice, Ayana Patterson, and Ducharme if she decides to start playing again. If Geno gets Strong, this could be his strongest team in years, and even without her, it would still be a very very strong team. Problematic for Geno to keep everyone happy.
 
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CONN78SEJ said:
No matter where Sarah goes, UConn or SC, she will as a freshman have to do well in practice to be a starter. SC will be loaded next year, but UConn will be even deeper when you consider next years starting five, Paige, Aubrey (if 100%), Azzi, El Alfy, Shade or KK. Even with that lineup, Geno will probably have to give a lot of PT to Zweibel if she lives up to her billing. Sarah could break into that starting lineup and very well might as she is a terrific outside shooter also, but there’s no guarantee, since she’d be competing with El Alfy, Ice, Ayana Patterson, and Ducharme if she decides to start playing again. If Geno gets Strong, this could be his strongest team in years, and even without her, it would still be a very very strong team. Problematic for Geno to keep everyone happy.
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Sarah would start. Aubrey wasn't starting this year and Geno won't rush her or tax her.

Sarah would be UCONN's 4.
 
What is Las Vegas under/over on the number of posts related to "who should be the 2024-5 UConn starters" on the Boneyard?
 
hoophuskee said:
Sarah would start. Aubrey wasn't starting this year and Geno won't rush her or tax her.

Sarah would be UCONN's 4.
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I don’t know that Strong starts at UConn as a freshman, particularly since Ice has started to figure things out and, over the past two games, is showing everyone why she was rated as the #5 player in her class.
 
oldude said:
I don’t know that Strong starts at UConn as a freshman, particularly since Ice has started to figure things out and, over the past two games, is showing everyone why she was rated as the #5 player in her class.
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Ice and Strong will start.

I don't believe we are going to get Sarah though. Unless that latest tweet from her mother was relevant enough - maybe Sarah wants to play with Paige for 1 year.
 
Morgan's going to play all over. If UCONN doesn't get Sarah, I'd be interested to see if Geno would consider starting Morgan at PF. UCONN will have 2 pg's ahead of her - KK and Paige as PG's. Morgan is 6'3 and she seems strong. She'd be beautiful pressing which UCONN will do a lot. That will have to be their strength defensively. With a lineup of KK, Shade, Paige, Cheli and Brady - you'd still have 4 guards only one of them is 6'3.

Azzi, Caroline, Aubrey, Patterson, and El Alfy -- imo too much injury concern to have them start. All need to be brought along slowly. With Patterson and El Alfy also experience concern,. They all may have to come off the bench. You can't trust how many minutes they can play. I'm assuming CD might be cleared. I'm not going to speculate other than that. As of this moment she is member of the team so I reference her as well - as I should. As we should.

And unless Ziebell is “very extremely” special, I don’t think Geno wants Paige playing PF but had to this year. I'd be shocked if she beats out Shade with all the experience Ashlynn has had. UCONN is going to want to be a little more conventional to a certain degree imo. And imo this is what makes Cheli so special from what I saw is her versatility; she seems like she can play any position.
 
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CONN78SEJ said:
No matter where Sarah goes, UConn or SC, she will as a freshman have to do well in practice to be a starter. SC will be loaded next year, but UConn will be even deeper when you consider next years starting five, Paige, Aubrey (if 100%), Azzi, El Alfy, Shade or KK. Even with that lineup, Geno will probably have to give a lot of PT to Zweibel if she lives up to her billing. Sarah could break into that starting lineup and very well might as she is a terrific outside shooter also, but there’s no guarantee, since she’d be competing with El Alfy, Ice, Ayana Patterson, and Ducharme if she decides to start playing again. If Geno gets Strong, this could be his strongest team in years, and even without her, it would still be a very very strong team. Problematic for Geno to keep everyone happy.
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I agree, ... but think that the starting lineup might be (as you said) Aubrey, " if " 100%, thus I would add Azzi, "if 100 %".
I would consider ICE also as a starter during the early games... because of her CURRENT playing experience and the expected time it may take for Jana to get with the team chemistry and timing. Remember how long it took ICE to begin to develop some consistency?
I also see a completely different constellation of starters if GENO holds Aubrey as "first off the bench".
 
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