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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 4844337, member: 26"] Great stuff as always, David. And you nailed it with "UConn fans are blessed to have both playing as well as could have been predicted. And both will only get better and expand their talents." Couldn't have said it better myself, so I won't try! I think sometimes the national "press" gives the most publicity to players who score the most. But keep in mind that some of those players are close to the only option on their teams ESPN put out a list late December that had freshmen at teams like USC, Arkansas, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Duke, BYU, Kansas, and Nebraska. All of them were listed in order more or less based on the PPG scored. Aside from USC, none of those other teams are ranked, and Nebraska is the only in the group of others "also receiving votes". All the freshmen on the ESPN list are really good (some great) but... [LIST] [*]Juju has taken over 30% of the shots for her entire team, just a bit less than the next 2 leading scorers for the team (247 - 254) [*]Talia Scott averages over 36 MPG takes almost 27% of her team's total shots. Her PPG average is about the total for the next 2 leading scorers (22.3 - 23.7) [*]Addy Brown and Audi Crooks both play for ISU and not only are the leading scorers, their total PPG is 40% of the entire team. Together they take 37% of the shots for the entire team. [*]Stailee Heard's numbers have dropped since Gusters re-joined the team about 7 games ago. Oklahoma State has 5 players who average double figures in scoring and this seems fairly similar to UCONN. She averages about 10 shots per game. [*]Okananwa from Duke comes off the bench, still averages over 10 PPG, and plays about 22 MPG. Great #'s for a 6th (wo)man. [*]Woolston, BYU is another freshman who plays a ton of minutes (35) per game. But she's 2nd in scoring and it's pretty balanced among the top 5. [*]S'Mya Nichols, Kansas, starts, averages 27 minutes per game, and just over 13 PPG. Leading scorer on her team. [*]Nat Potts, Nebraska, has started all 15 games and has nice numbers at 11.5 PPG [/LIST] Ash and KK have "only" started 10 games. And even tho they start, they aren't tasked with leading their teams like most of the names above. I wouldn't trade either of them for any of the other freshmen in the country. When all is said and done, I think Watkins, Williams, and Fulwiley may well end up as the "best" in the class, but I'd stack our guys up against anyone else on that list. It will be interesting to see who makes the end of year all freshman team (is there one for the country? Maybe not...). Put KK on Seton Hall and Ash on DePaul and their stats would be thru the roof. Our duo is just tremendous. [/QUOTE]

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