I'm sort of concerned about your tone. Should I be????
Okay I'll play though I hope insults won't fly at me?
Can I ask you a favor? After I give my opinions and I expect you'll tell me why I'm so wrong
-- can I ask what you think of Brianna Banks as a scorer? Last year at Penn State she averaged 13.4 ppg. Would you consider her a scorer? I don't. There was a time when Brianna was hitting outside shots and she was able to take the ball to the basket too. Just like what you say about Coombs.
***And I just want to add - I don't believe you need to be a scorer in order to be absolutely terrific. Kelly Farris case in point. VS a Tenn sg I forget her name, the Tenn player was a scorer but Kelly far superior. Scoring can be flash with little substance.
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I don't consider Coombs a scorer. She averaged 13.5 last year. UCONN's women's program is the greatest basketball of all-time. Geno often says for freshman that sometimes they forget to do what they are good at/were good ta that made them so good. If Coombs was such a scorer she'd be averaging more than 13.5. Matter of fact, that's about what Brianna Banks averaged I believe in high school. You may have seen Coombs in moments. I don't know if anyone can recall though how awesome Banks looked at the McD A/A game in her senior year. So I don't doubt you have seen some very fine play, we've seen it from Banks too (in that McD A/A game she looked absolutely terrific), but a scorer for this program, it is rare that a 13.5 ppg small guard scorer can be considered an impact scorer vs other super teams while she was recruited for team already loaded with scoring.
Anyhow, the key question is what does Coombs do best? It's not scoring. It can't be from the stats I see. My guess from what I've read and you haven't quoted me some unreal scoring games ,is that she is a super-heart gritty player extremely strong with the ball and a fabulous athlete that plays the game with rough swagger and speed. I see on this site a thread in which Geno is discussing Maya and Walker in the same sentence. I expect at some point we'll hear Coombs more in the all grit and heart team with terrific athleticism and feel for the game talk-- not the Maya talk like Walker is. But coombs has "A winner" written all over her based on how she bounced back from her injury and is still considered elite. A potential all-american that won't be defined by her scoring. She might not turn into that, but from what I read it seems possible.
As for Andra-- I did say "questionable" which means I think she "can be" which I don't really think Coombs will be a consistent impact scorer. The reason why I won't near guarantee Andra is "a scorer" (do you agree we can near guarantee Walker and can near guarantee CWill?) is that I hear her shot is "sweet." If her shot is so sweet then why isn't she without a doubt consistently ranked higher? I read she is very high on some but from what I read about her shot - it's extremely sweet so I question why she isn't higher. And I pick up from reading the following:
Future Huskie Espinoza-Hunter showing age just a number
The following comment
in bold from the article above is all but telling us why she may have been "37 ranked" by hoopgurlz. So yeah I said "she is questionable to be a scorer (I meant impact all-american type of scorer) but by now I hope you get a feel of what I mean in that just because I don't categorize a player as a near-guarantee impact all-american scorer it doesn't mean I don't believe they can't be absolutely terrific. Plus I left open the door for Andra because I read from posters like you or read articles from the boneyard etc. A sweet shooter always has a shot to be tremendous. But following basketball over 40 years which I have and I'm sure you have been following a long time too- we have seen many super shooters that couldn't turn the corner and be great scorers because they didn't have the combination of quickness and handle and in some cases size Right?
That's why I disagreed with that poster about a scoring guard. CWill is near-guarantee to be a scorer from all I've read and from my experience of The Great Auriemma. UCONN can use that and I have to believe anyone ranked as high as CWill is pretty darn confident she can play anywhere just like Cox was confident with Baylor.
"Ballhandling is one thing I'm really focused on," Espinoza-Hunter said. "I think I've improved taking a defender off the dribble and getting my shot off. I know that I need to be able to be more than a perimeter shooter. I have to be able to get to the basket. "
