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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3208126, member: 199"] Enjoyable post with some thought and interesting takes on specific players not all of which I agree with. I think you underestimate the specific college coaching/team environment which HS players enter. While I believe the WCBB coaching quality has dramatically improved in the last 20 years it is still quite spotty and the rated HS players continue to be less than efficient from their basketball future perspective in making their college choices. And as every professional league draft process shows every year, evaluating talent is an operation fraught with glaring errors of judgement, and that is a process where the player evaluation is not dependent on a recruiting process that puts the power into the hands of the 'talent'. And the professional teams have basically unlimited money and personnel with which to perform their own player evaluations focused specifically on their own criteria. I do not think 'agenda' of women's HS evaluations is as important as levels of competition/exposure and coaching available at the HS level and the exposition quality of AAU - it is not quite as bad as all-star game play but with little practice falls short of what even poor college coaching achieves in terms of team play. [/QUOTE]