No kidding ..but I'm talking specifically about the comparison between Aubrey and Q
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I understood what you meant, and I think we get to compare the freshmen to upperclassmen because that's who they'll play against in practice and in games. Obviously we need to make allowances for experience and maturity -- that's the very stuff comparisons are made of. Perhaps that's what you were thinking too, that allowances needed to be made and maybe you thought I wasn't making enough of them.
On the other hand, if you think they're too emotionally delicate to withstand any such comparison -- assuming any of the players even read the BY -- I think you're mistaken. They are very sturdy and measure themselves against upperclassmen all the time.
I am a big KK fan. I can't remember a UCONN PG who was as quick as her as she blows by any defender on her way to the basket. Plus, even allowing for her overly aggressive one on one defense, which I think will get her in foul trouble in a few games, I think she might be our best one on one defender. She is a handful now and will only get more so over the next 3 years as our PG.
However, she does need to stop making the decision to charge into a group of taller defenders, with only one thing on her mind---shooting. Numerous times in the last 5-6 games she has barged into the lane only to lose the ball, be tied up or take a impossible shot when a more experienced PG would kick the ball out to an open teammate. This is probably just a FR mistake which the coaching staff will work with her to correct.
However, she does need to stop making the decision to charge into a group of taller defenders, with only one thing on her mind---shooting. Numerous times in the last 5-6 games she has barged into the lane only to lose the ball, be tied up or take a impossible shot when a more experienced PG would kick the ball out to an open teammate. This is probably just a FR mistake which the coaching staff will work with her to correct.
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Agree. There were a few times where she drove into the lane, and then had no where to go, and no options. I wonder if she had not gotten there so quickly (LOL), and so deep, if there would have been a better outcome. One play, she drove in and tried to bounce pass to Ice, however it seemed that it was too late, and the defenders closed out the space.
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I think Moriah Jefferson was quicker. KK, however, is bigger and stronger and is probably a better long-distance shooter as a freshman than Moriah was. Moriah had strong 3-point percentages in her latter years.
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our freshmen are amazing! Ash is playing like an upper classman and is the happiest kid out there; KK shows some no fear in attacking the basket and her outside shooting is improving. Q is sniper who in the last some games show she can rebound and is growing on defense.
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I knew Q was special when they played the games in Croatia last summer. One game in particular, it may have been the first game, she came in the game and immediately started jacking up shots with reckless abandon and never seemed phased when she missed. I said whoa, that is not the typical freshman mentality. True to form, she has remained unphased and is a good, not yet great, shooter. She will become great before she leaves UConn. I tell you what, I would not trade our three true freshmen for any other group of freshmen.