Your info is skewed because Williams isn't always playing in "prime time" while Butler was playing in prime time. She was also playing appreciably more minutes which means that there is less likelihood that her stats are skewed. I'm not trying to denigrate Williams, who I think has the potential to be an excellent player. You've seen Cox play against high school sophomores and juniors and seniors, some of whom are exceptional but many who are far from it and sometimes it's easy to dominate when you have a physical advantage or you MATURE a bit earlier than someone else but the older you get, the more those physical advantages can be neutralized. Your remarks contribute to people saying negative things about Cox when most people here are willing to concede that she's a talented kid. How will that translate into college is what's difficult to presume. The advantage is Butler has already proven something on a far bigger stage than has Cox!!!!!
You mention the "others who get paid to do so", meaning evaluate high school talent and though a big portion of those kids evaluated highly come to fruition, there are a portion who end up doing nothing of the kind. The suggestion that scouting evaluations ALWAYS bear fruit is far from true and some of the top ten RATED talent ends up being somewhat akin to chopped liver. For you to suggest that they always get it right just isn't so.
Duh
FYP
Good, you're catching on.
It's not what they do, it's what they are.
ummm, because she did it? Have you not been following this thread, or WCBB? WTF kind of question is that?
Ok, well how many points has Cox scored at the Div 1 level?
See, here's your problem, we actually do know about her Div 1 offensive abilities. Or at least we have plenty of Div 1 evidence to form an informed opinion. As with Cox we have 0 Div 1 evidence.
So have I, but I wouldn't put her in the Stewart or DT category.
ummm, because she did it? Have you not been following this thread, or WCBB? WTF kind of question is that?
Sorry, missed the "h". Were vs Where. Reading too fast. Or getting too old.
ummm, because she did it? Have you not been following this thread, or WCBB? WTF kind of question is that?
Ok, well how many points has Cox scored at the Div 1 level?
See, here's your problem, we actually do know about her Div 1 offensive abilities. Or at least we have plenty of Div 1 evidence to form an informed opinion. As with Cox we have 0 Div 1 evidence.
So have I, but I wouldn't put her in the Stewart or DT category.
Does Cox have the potential to be a good Div 1 player? I'd say so.
Does Butler have the potential to be a good Div 1 player? She's already done it. It's not potential anymore.
Does Cox have the potential to be better than Butler? I think so, but we won't really know until we see how she adjusts to Div 1 level.
Yes I did.
I agree. It's just my opinion from what I have seen of her and Butler. I think she has the potential, don't know if it will be realized though. From what I have seen of her she impresses me much more than Russell or Wilson did. But who knows. We're in agreement, she hasn't made the jump to Div 1 yet. Let alone the jump to UCONN level.
Well, just standing up for my big brother here - putting all players' stats into terms of 40 minutes gives us an opportunity to compare apples to apples. It gives us a way to compare Briana Pulido's .1 points (in 2.3 minutes) per game to Breanna Stewart's 16.8 points per game (in 29.5 minutes). You make a basic assumption - one we know is improbable but you need a comparative basis - that both players play 40 minutes. It could be 10 minutes or 15 or 60; 40 is used because it's the number of minutes in a game. In that way, we can compare what might, theoretically happen if both players played for the full 40 minutes. Now, we know there are variables, such as the fact Stewie plays against the tougher starting players rather than the subs that Briana usually plays against but it's just a statistical modeling. Fun for stats geeks and fans alike and just something else to mull over. As we are, I guess!
