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Welcome Kaitlyn!

I have watched a lot of Kaitlyn Chen throughout her career at Princeton. Unfortunately, most of the games I watched were of Chen torching my Columbia Lions. :(. Chen is a BIG TIME player in crunch time. She can get to the basket and score, knock down shots from the perimeter, drop some beautiful dimes on her teammates and she is a remarkably tough defender.

With all the talent UConn has at guard, I suspect that Chen is coming in with much the same attitude as Lou Lopez Senechel, just trying to fit in and do her best. Hopefully, Chen won’t end up carrying the same load Lou ended up carrying for the Huskies. But there is no doubt that she will be a key contributor.
 
huskyblooz said:
Paige, Azzi, KK, Shade, Ziebell, Cheli & now Chen. Thats not counting Q & Caroline who are listed as guards.
Who's going to rebound? Who's going to defend the size that the top teams have?
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Who's going to defend the great guard play UCONN has? The entire league could barely handle Clark. UCONN adding now another shooter/scorer. In addtion Sarah Strong is a "rebounder."
 
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VA Huskie said:
I feel great about it… if Geno wants her, I want her!
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Exactly! It's such a no brainer - - the way some people assume that Geno, CD (and then the whole assistant coaches...) don't know what's going on. And especially after the coaching demo they just gave us all. Where's the faith? SMH. Anyways, like you said - If Geno wants her, we should I want her!
 
huskyblooz said:
Paige, Azzi, KK, Shade, Ziebell, Cheli & now Chen. Thats not counting Q & Caroline who are listed as guards.
Who's going to rebound? Who's going to defend the size that the top teams have?
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Our 6”5 Egyptian post player who all the college coaches at the fiba tournament said was the best player and would be #1 in 2024 if she was American that tournament featured Aliyah Edward , kamilla Cardoso, Angel Reese, Rickea Jackson. She’s also so aggressive the coaches had asked her to tone it down or if not her, our 6”2 number one recruit who has had multiple 30 point 20 rebound games including one against Joyce Edwards, or our 6”3 #3 recruit who dunks for fun, or our 6”3 #4 recruit who came into her own last year. Big reason why we won the big East tournament and our elite 8 game. Or our 6”1 Aubrey Griffin when she’s healthy who we all know is a rebounding machine. It’s not about size it’s about heart. Ex Morrow who is under sized but a rebounding machine. Or with South Carolina who outside of Cardoso, their rotation of post were 6”3. We have an embarrassment of riches, 3 number one recruits, just gained an Ivy League player of the year and people still find a reason to complain. our girls deserve more grateful fans, they just got to the final four with less than half of the team we will have next year. I’m excited to see what they do!
 
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How quickly we forget how the team struggled when Nika had to leave the game.

So now we have a point guard with 4 years of experience who has the stats that says she's a really good player.

She has been learning from a coach that learned from Gino, now she is going to be studying under her teachers teacher. I'm thinking this will be more of a continuation of how to play the game, not learning how to play for Geno & CD but more like refining & preparing for the next level.

KK needs more time. This will take the pressure off of KK.

I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of people liking this young lady.
 
Wonderful addition. Now we just need us some "BEERS" to make the 2024-2025 Roster a 100% complete National Championship Built Team
 
darrell said:
I don’t get why this is so hard to understand. She won’t stop KK’s development, if anything she’ll challenge her and make her better so that she’s more than fit to run the team after Kaitlyn and Paige leaves next year. She scores, facilitates and plays defense. An amazing pickup if you ask me.
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Not sure why everyone seems to assume Paige will leave next year? She does have another year and presumably her reasons for staying this year will remain the same? I think it’s eminently possible she will play out her eligibility at UConn before moving on. I suppose she might be influenced to lave if the right team were to get the #1 draft slot but otherwise, I think she’s likely to stay even if UConn wins #12 this season!
 
EricLA said:
One piece falls into place. Welcome to UConn Ms. Chen!! So excited to have her. Let's celebrate with some Beers! :D
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huskyblooz said:
Paige, Azzi, KK, Shade, Ziebell, Cheli & now Chen. Thats not counting Q & Caroline who are listed as guards.
Who's going to rebound? Who's going to defend the size that the top teams have?
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is there a rule that it's illegal for guards to rebound and defend against the terrifying BIGS??

those folks you listed fully are capable of rebounding and harassing giants, but if that would be a violation, it's probably not good to try to board or defend bigs. OTOH, since have an abundance of guards ... well, maybe it's ok if most of them foul out.

or, hawk points out some great alternatives in post #38.
 
I don't know what the future holds, and neither does anyone else here on the BY. I expect we will discuss who starts and how many minutes, etc. until we are ready to slash our wrists :) . One thing I do know and can say with confidence is that Kaitlyn has been very well coached, possibly by the future HC of the UConn Huskies.

Welcome aboard!
 
Great addition, welcome Kaitlyn! I’m really pleased with this. She will provide proven experienced guard depth to a young team with a ton of question marks.

We have 4 players who have never played a college basketball game, 5 players coming off of season ending injuries, and we’ll have a combined 8 underclassmen eligibility wise. And assurance against injury is top of mind recently!

While some think we don’t need the additional guard help, I don’t think it could hurt! Excited to see what Chen brings to the squad.
 
I'm glad that Kaitlyn has decided to come to UConn. At first I was not all that interested in her being a portal addition. I based that on watching her play three times late in the Ivy League season and tournament. Two of games were against Columbia and I didn't think that she played all that well.
But it isn't fair to make my judgment on those three games late in the season.
Looking forward to seeing play for our Huskies.
 
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