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Message: [QUOTE="eebmg, post: 3663862, member: 7548"] Nice story in the Athletic [URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/2007201/2020/09/01/how-good-is-paige-bueckers-we-asked-the-coaches-who-faced-her-in-high-school/?source=dailyemail[/URL] When former Edina High School coach Matt Nilsen heard Paige Bueckers would be going to UConn and the Huskies would be returning to the Big East, he had a conversation with his wife. Maybe they’d consider driving the five hours to see Bueckers play at Marquette or Creighton? “There’s not a lot of kids I’ve coached against that I would probably ever go do that for,” Nilsen said with a laugh. But Bueckers wasn’t like most high school players in Minnesota, and Nilsen had known that for a long time. He first saw Bueckers play when she was in fourth grade at a girls basketball tournament with his daughter, who’s a year older. Nilsen was immediately struck by Bueckers’ ball handling, passing and body control, years before she would join Hopkins High School’s varsity team as an eighth-grader. [/QUOTE]