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Players Cut by WNBA Teams

bballnut90 said:
5-2 point guard without a great jump shot. Seems like a great kid and her heroics will not soon be forgotten, but no surprise there.
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Same as Brooke McCarty was cut by LA Spark too.
 
ocoandasoc said:
Karlie Samuelson waived by LA. Allen, Gray, and Russell waived by the Liberty.

Russell, 6'6", top HS pick, five years at Tenn, can't make a roster? This is a tough league. Maybe another team will pick her up.
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It is a tough league, indeed!
 
DallasBUFan said:
Ugh this cap and only 12 person roster is killing sooo many opportunities for great players. If we had 14 spots per team and at least two more teams it would help sooo much.

Allen and Russell cut from Liberty. I did not expect that. Russell more than Allen. Also, really wanted Karlie or Shakayla to make the spark's roster.
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The Sparks and Lynx are the two hardest rosters to make.
 
DallasBUFan said:
Ugh this cap and only 12 person roster is killing sooo many opportunities for great players. If we had 14 spots per team and at least two more teams it would help sooo much.

Allen and Russell cut from Liberty. I did not expect that. Russell more than Allen. Also, really wanted Karlie or Shakayla to make the spark's roster.
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Can't say Russell was not given an honest look. Led the preseason in floor minutes by far with 26 mpg. Imho, stats uninspiring.Really feel for Lindsey Allen :mad:.
I really liked and appreciated her last year an you could see her play improving as the season went on. She also seems to me to have had an excellent stat line in preseason. Very controlled player and imho perhaps the best pure PG on the team but I guess just too many guards on the roster to compete with (+ Nurse lighting it up) Hope she pulls off what happened last year and comes in mid season after being waived and really helps a team.
 
eebmg said:
Really feel for Lindsay Allen :mad:.
I really liked and appreciated her last year an you could see her play improving as the season went on. She also seems to me to have had an excellent stat line in preseason. Very controlled player and imho perhaps the best pure PG on the team
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The Aces cut Colson, so they could use another PG. Speculation is Laimbeer will pick up Allen. He likes acquiring players he’s worked with before: Bone, Swords, Schimmel.
 
I think the 17 WNBA players marks the highest ever for UConn. Next:

Maryland- 8
Duke- 8
Tennessee- 6
South Carolina- 5
Notre Dame- 4
North Carolina- 4
LSU- 4
Stanford- 3
Baylor- 3
Texas- 1

So far and away, the cream of the crop come from Connecticut. The next best producers of WNBA talent are Maryland and Duke. I always suspected that Maryland had great natural talent, but failed to develop that talent into great teams.

If I've overlooked any prominent schools, please assist.
 
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Wow, I'm a little surprised Maryland and Duke would be next in line for most players in the WNBA. Both have recruited extremely well over the years but haven't really capitalized on it. Duke seems to be cursed with injuries to at least of of their top players each year for some reason.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
I think the 17 WNBA players marks the highest ever for UConn. Next:

Maryland- 8
Duke- 8
Tennessee- 6
South Carolina- 5
Notre Dame- 4
North Carolina- 4
LSU- 4
Stanford- 3
Baylor- 3
Texas- 1

So far and away, the cream of the crop come from Connecticut. The next best producers of WNBA talent are Maryland and Duke. I always suspected that Maryland had great natural talent, but failed to develop that talent into great teams.

If I've overlooked any prominent schools, please assist.
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Add Oregon State with 2 (Sydney Weise, Marie Gulich)
 
Jlong231 said:
Yea I just noticed that, so I figured this was the reason, because they are still overseas, but the WNBA page still has vadeeva as waived
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Appears to have been simple incompetence on the WNBA's part. It has now been corrected to show Vadeeva as temporarily suspended.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
I think the 17 WNBA players marks the highest ever for UConn. Next:

Maryland- 8
Duke- 8
Tennessee- 6
South Carolina- 5
Notre Dame- 4
North Carolina- 4
LSU- 4
Stanford- 3
Baylor- 3
Texas- 1

So far and away, the cream of the crop come from Connecticut. The next best producers of WNBA talent are Maryland and Duke. I always suspected that Maryland had great natural talent, but failed to develop that talent into great teams.

If I've overlooked any prominent schools, please assist.
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Rutgers with 7.
 
ochoopsfan said:
My understanding that the Sparks it is a Salary cap thing. I am guessing a few weeks down the road they can add a player on a "pro rated" contract basis, but it is only a guess.
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There is hope for Karlie to make the roster yet!
 
Fairfield Fan said:
I think the 17 WNBA players marks the highest ever for UConn. Next:

Maryland- 8
Duke- 8
Tennessee- 6
South Carolina- 5
Notre Dame- 4
North Carolina- 4
LSU- 4
Stanford- 3
Baylor- 3
Texas- 1

So far and away, the cream of the crop come from Connecticut. The next best producers of WNBA talent are Maryland and Duke. I always suspected that Maryland had great natural talent, but failed to develop that talent into great teams.

If I've overlooked any prominent schools, please assist.
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It puzzles me, given how consistently competitive ND has been this decade, that only 4 make it. Muffet does develop players well.
 
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Fairfield Fan said:
I think the 17 WNBA players marks the highest ever for UConn. Next:

Maryland- 8
Duke- 8

So far and away, the cream of the crop come from Connecticut. The next best producers of WNBA talent are Maryland and Duke.
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MSSportsGuy said:
Wow, I'm a little surprised Maryland and Duke would be next in line for most players in the WNBA. Both have recruited extremely well over the years but haven't really capitalized on it. Duke seems to be cursed with injuries to at least of of their top players each year for some reason.
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If you look at the Duke alumni in the WNBA, you will notice a few things.

-- Alana Beard and Monique Currie were recruited by and coached by Gail Goestenkors (who left Duke in 2007, after the 2006-2007 season ended).
-- Chelsea Gray and Elizabeth Williams were recruited by and coached by Joanne P. McCallie (who took over the Duke program in April 2007, with her first season being 2007-2008).
-- Jasmine Thomas, Karima Christmas, and Krystal Thomas were recruited by Goestenkors and signed LOIs with Duke when Goestenkors was still the head coach. Coach G left Duke after the McDonald's All-American game that year (in which JT and KT played), Coach P was hired, and all three players honored their commitments and remained signed with Duke.
-- Lexie Brown played two seasons at Maryland for Brenda Frese before transferring to Duke, sitting out one year (per the transfer rules), and playing two seasons for Coach P.
 
Shouldn’t Stevens be more associated with Duke since she played there two years to UConn’s one?
 
Put another way, about 11 schools account for almost half of the W. I'm not disappointed that RU is one of them, but it is interesting how many come from how few schools.
 
wire chief said:
It puzzles me, given how consistently competitive ND has been this decade, that only 4 make it. Muffet does develop players well.
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Diggins, Loyd, Achonwa, McBride... Allen, Peters, and Novacel are the only players I can think of. 2012 was the first year these ND players started going. The only top 5 players of this group were Diggins and Loyd. 2012 to now has been her recruiting successes. All four of her seniors could get drafted next year, and then there's Young.
I think ND develops their players pretty good (Cable was ranked ~50, but was a 1st team All-ACC performer her senior year). The argument would be that she develops decent players into good players, but she wasn't getting the "elite" players our of HS. McBride was rated ~20, but she was drafted #3 in her draft class.
Now Muffet is getting some high-quality recruits, so I would expect her number of players in the WNBA to increase.
Also, I expect Allen to get picked up by someone.
 
Geew1992 said:
Record 17 UConn alums make WNBA rosters
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This is a dynamic that ALL future D-1 recruits should make note of. This IS NOT debatable. That number is a COLD HARD FACT, not fake news. Geno and his staff do an excellent job of preparing their players to compete for and win roster spots at the next level. WNBA coaches and GM's love UConn players!!! ;)
 
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eebmg said:
Can't say Russell was not given an honest look. Led the preseason in floor minutes by far with 26 mpg. Imho, stats uninspiring.Really feel for Lindsey Allen :mad:.
I really liked and appreciated her last year an you could see her play improving as the season went on. She also seems to me to have had an excellent stat line in preseason. Very controlled player and imho perhaps the best pure PG on the team but I guess just too many guards on the roster to compete with (+ Nurse lighting it up) Hope she pulls off what happened last year and comes in mid season after being waived and really helps a team.
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Second your insights and sentiment. I thought she played well in the pre-season, as well. As the only "pure" PG that I saw on the Liberty, I thought she'd have a shot, as well. but perhaps that was a numbers game. However, she got picked up after a few games last year and perhaps the same will happen this time around. As another poster said, Laimbeer likes working with players he's had before so maybe Las Vegas might be an opportunity down the road (although they have a surplus of guards, as well).

We'll see....
 
Fairfield Fan said:
Wow! Morgan William, the kid who sank the shot and UConn a year ago, gut cut by Las Vegas!!

I won't gloat....
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Why would that be a reason to gloat. All the more embarrassing for UConn to have been unable to stop her.
 
Guards have to be so multidimensional in the WNBA, it's brutal. That is what gives Kia an edge.
 
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Scoop said:
Dallas' roster is down to 12. Chong and Stevens made the cut.

I just looked at the final list of cuts for today. I predicted that there would be some notable names on the waiver list today, I was right.

Aces head coach "Trader Bill" Laimbeer must be a seer. He signed Shoni Schimmel this past Tuesday (May 15) after she was waived by the Liberty, and kept her. She made the cut. I like her, I'm glad she's back in the W. :D
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I'll be watching the game tomorrow to see how Shoni does.
 
ocoandasoc said:
Karlie Samuelson waived by LA. Allen, Gray, and Russell waived by the Liberty.

Russell, 6'6", top HS pick, five years at Tenn, can't make a roster? This is a tough league. Maybe another team will pick her up.
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Sit courtside at a game and you will see that this is probably the elite pro basketball league in the world (including the NBA). Most of the NBA players are fat and happy with their huge salaries and couldn't care less about winning the NBA title.

Every WNBA player is out for blood every game.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
I think the 17 WNBA players marks the highest ever for UConn. Next:

Maryland- 8
Duke- 8
Tennessee- 6
South Carolina- 5
Notre Dame- 4
North Carolina- 4
LSU- 4
Stanford- 3
Baylor- 3
Texas- 1

So far and away, the cream of the crop come from Connecticut. The next best producers of WNBA talent are Maryland and Duke. I always suspected that Maryland had great natural talent, but failed to develop that talent into great teams.

If I've overlooked any prominent schools, please assist.
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Ohio State currently has five. Jantel Lavendar (Sparks), Tayler Hill (Mystics), Kelsey Mitchell (Fever), Linnae Harper (Sky), Stephanie Mavunga (Fever)
 
Shades said:
Shouldn’t Stevens be more associated with Duke since she played there two years to UConn’s one?
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Jlong231 said:
I think they only pay attention to where u finish and graduate from, she graduated from UConn, which I’m sure makes her a UConn alum
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Stevens also sat out for one season, where she could only practice and not play. So she attended UConn for two years (even though she only played one season), and she attended Duke for two years.

And she earned her degree from UConn, which has to be the deciding factor.
 
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