I was finally able to see EDD play a game. She has fantastic offensive skills and played some defense against much smaller players, none of whom were anywhere near All-American level in skills. She was slow and was rather ungainly when she dribbled. A couple of times she looked like she was going to fall down. The commentator repeatedly noted that she was "gassed." (There might well be medical issues involved which she is bravely fighting through.)
At crunch-time, at the end of the game, none of her shots were going in. She gave her best, but, her coach should have taken her out for a few minutes, combined with some time-outs, to give her a blow. Geno even took Kelly out once when he saw that she was about to collapse.
After watching Tiffany's last game, broken bone and all, who would you rather have on your team, Tiff or EDD? If Tiffany had played at Delaware, her stats would have eclipsed EDD's in every catagory (remember her game against Holy Cross? That would have been typical in Delaware's league.)
I would like to see EDD play against a top tier team with other first string AA's before putting her at that level. Actually, she did play against a top college team once- her one scrimmage in summer school at Uconn. I think it was a great shock to her how hard she was going to have to work to play at that level. EDD would have been a terrific addition to Uconn (we would probably be sporting another national championship banner)- but, she would have never been the best player, not even this year.
EDD's high school and college coaches did her a great disservice by insisting that she play entire games, concentrating on offense and being allowed to practically ignore defense.
How many first string AA's have their been who have not been great offensive and defensive players- as demonstrated in important games against other AA's.
