I have seen her play. Did Collier lead the team in scoring her freshman year? Griffin is talented but she has a lot to learn regarding not taking plays off. She did not hustle every play per UConn standards. Once she gets that into her system she will do well. But remember, CW and CD are on the team. Their offense should be better next season, as well as Walker's.
I have seen Griffin play 4 times in person, and while she certainly has the ability to score and a huge upside, her game needs to be developed to play at the college level. As for the comparison to Collier? No. Griffin some times dogs it getting back on defense, something you will never see Pheesa do, and something that Geno will correct within the 1st 15 minutes of Aubrey’s first practice.
had too many for the past 3 seasons... and the one BIG we did have, Geno kept her on the bench!
I saw her in person once. She was very good. In a stretch in the third quarter, she was particularly active and took over the game. If she had been that active all game, she would have been Maya Moore.
You may be right but I think Howard is kind of a high bar. I probably take some flack for saying this but my bar is somewhere above Batouly and Kyla-and more importantly for only 1 year. I think there are currently players available that can easily meet this bar.
Yeaaa, don't get your hopes up. That's not gonna happen. Hopefully she will get some playing time, heck it's possible she might even start. But she's not leading the team in scoring.
While there may or may not be Howard like players out there, we likely would be fine with a strong, tough body who can rebound and play defense down low. While nice, doesn't have to be giant, just be able to do a few pick and roles, make layups, and take pressure off ONO.
And an occasional opponent.
Williams and Jones were trucks and Cash was a race horse. Not your typical 6'2"s. Not a single player on this past year's, or last year team could hope to match the inside power of Williams/Jones, while only Gabby could match the athleticism of Cash, but with far less lenght.
Nice try. Sigh.
Thanks, I needed someone to say that> I was getting vibes that she was and equal or better than CW (hard to believe, or that i believed it). Having said that she'll be off the bench --who, is the 5th starter---ONO, Danger, CW, Walker, ???? (my choice Coombs).
Aaaah come on--Tamika could only score from 2 ft. Geno said so. There was another kid that played with them a bit later---Tough as nail, could get a rebound and up thru the trees she'd score---can't remember her name, wonder what happened to her??/ Probably went to Purdue..
Poor ONO how soon they forget..
Is that necessarily Bad? How many other Div 1 teams do that every year?
The fact that Williams could score at an alarming rate from 2ft. and closer, illustrates my point to perfection. When you combine that with the ability of Jones/Williams/Cash to out board any player in a UCONN uniform this season, you have a collection of 6'2"s that would not have been clobbered in the lane like in every UCONN loss the past couple seasons.