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[QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 4355011, member: 5823"]
I think it may have been a post in another thread by [USER=6132]@SCGamecock[/USER] that pretty much pointed how unfair it was to compare this 2018  U17 team to the 2022 version.   Celeste Taylor and Sam Brunelle were not injured.  Sam fell into an extended shooting slump and her confidence spiraled downwards as a result.  This was completed unexpected because Sam had played on the U17 team two years prior (2016) and was expected to be an anchor for the 2018 U17 team.  Things got so bad for Sam that by the  middle of the tournament both  Belibi, and Brink were getting minutes at the forward position and Sam was the last player getting only mop up minutes.  Honestly I don't think Sam ever recovered.   
Celeste who is now a Duke (probably the best player on  that  team) is one of my favorite non- UCONN players.  Although she did not have big minutes at U16 or U17 she was the ultimate role/glue player for both of those teams.    Her biggest attribute was it didn't matter who else was on the floor Celeste just made plays and did what ever the team needed to do to win.   Celeste Taylor in 2018 was what Sonia Citron was for the U19 team in 2021 and  often  those types of players easily get overlooked.
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