You'd think it was Gabby...

[HuskyNan]

...but it's not. It's incoming UConn freshman Mikayla Coombs. Wowza! What an amazing athlete. (article here)

 

[veryolddog]

Wow! 5' 10"?

 

[oldude]

And the rich just keep on getting richer...

 

[johnnyc]

I wonder if Geno is having breakfast at IHOP more frequently.....

 

[CocoHusky]

I wonder if Geno is having breakfast at IHOP more frequently.....

 

[BobbyJ]

I've got a real good feeling about this kid. With those ups and that quickness I think she's going to be a real penetrator and a nightmare defensively.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Now this is how the jumper got its name! Mikayla has serious ups.

From title game article in today's news links. Put her team on her back and created a lifetime memory.

 

[1-of-the-6]

Calm down. What if this shot was her fifth consecutive airball?

 

[pvdoggy]

Now this is how the jumper got its name! Mikayla has serious ups.

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From title game article in today's news links. Put her team on her back and created a lifetime memory.

She may have some ups, but that picture is just a byproduct of the angle that it is taken.

 

[Husky pride]

Calm down. What if this shot was her fifth consecutive airball?

No need to calm down! Mikayla once again starred....this time taking her Wesleyan High School team on her back and rallying them to victory in the Class A Private Girls' championship held at Georgia Tech!! This is one super basketball player and can't wait to see her sharing the court with Gabby!!

 

[donalddoowop]

Calm down. What if this shot was her fifth consecutive airball?

It was not. Just her third.

 

[RedStickHusky]

Calm down. What if this shot was her fifth consecutive airball?

So now we're looking for a Katie Lou with Gabby hops? Nobody's getting spoiled around here

 

[Phil]

Someone said she played at a different level. Now I know what they meant.

 

[MilfordHusky]

She has a low release on her shot, but quick hands and feet.

 

[my2cents]

Me be "Liking" JUMP shots, just not a regular part of the women's game. DT, Maya, and the girl from USF, Courtney Williams had the best.

 

[oldude]

Me be "Liking" JUMP shots, just not a regular part of the women's game. DT, Maya, and the girl from USF, Courtney Williams had the best.

I almost hate to point this out, but when she feels like playing, Diamond DeShields has one of the best jump shots in the women's game. She gets tremendous elevation and she has a nice soft release. Of course she may only feel like playing 1 out of every 3 games.

 

[1-of-the-6]

I almost hate to point this out, but when she feels like playing, Diamond DeShields has one of the best jump shots in the women's game. She gets tremendous elevation and she has a nice soft release. Of course she may only feel like playing 1 out of every 3 games.

There are plenty of girls with nice pull-up jumpers, but the reason you don't see more of this is the same reason you don't see more of it in the men's game. The three-point line. The best shots in basketball, strategically, are the three-pointer and the layup. Good thing or bad thing, that's the way it is.

Shout out to the University of San Francisco's (the REAL USF) Amy Touli and Tammy Adkins, jump shooters and more from the early nineties, two terrific players that got me going as a fan of the women's game.