Post by rockymtblue2 on Mar 18, 2021 15:56:06 GMT -5
At least the argument by Doug Bruno and of Deb Antonelli.
www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-paige-bueckers-poy-20210318-5v6pd7pwpjdmtppudb6yc4pqbq-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UConn%20Alerts%20-%20Don%27t%20Miss&utm_content=6011616099447#nws=true
“[Bueckers] knows the actions of the Princeton [offense] and can read them so well,” Antonelli said. “She can make every shot. She gets herself open because she can work without the ball, and she knows how to read the screening action. She has a high intellect when it comes to reading the defense, reading the second level before she even catches it.”
“I think we toss around the term ‘playmaker’ a little bit too lightly,” added analyst Monica McNutt. “But [Bueckers] is arguably one of the best playmakers in the game right now.”
In nonconference play earlier this season, Bruno’s Blue Demons faced off against Kentucky’s Rhyne Howard and Louisville’s Dana Evans, both of whom are first team All-Americans and Naismith finalists alongside Bueckers.
“I think Paige is better than both of those two,” Bruno said.
“This is a very, very special basketball player,” he said. “She certainly is going to go down as one of the most elite players in the most elite program in the history of college basketball.”
www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-women-paige-bueckers-poy-20210318-5v6pd7pwpjdmtppudb6yc4pqbq-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UConn%20Alerts%20-%20Don%27t%20Miss&utm_content=6011616099447#nws=true
“[Bueckers] knows the actions of the Princeton [offense] and can read them so well,” Antonelli said. “She can make every shot. She gets herself open because she can work without the ball, and she knows how to read the screening action. She has a high intellect when it comes to reading the defense, reading the second level before she even catches it.”
“I think we toss around the term ‘playmaker’ a little bit too lightly,” added analyst Monica McNutt. “But [Bueckers] is arguably one of the best playmakers in the game right now.”
In nonconference play earlier this season, Bruno’s Blue Demons faced off against Kentucky’s Rhyne Howard and Louisville’s Dana Evans, both of whom are first team All-Americans and Naismith finalists alongside Bueckers.
“I think Paige is better than both of those two,” Bruno said.
“This is a very, very special basketball player,” he said. “She certainly is going to go down as one of the most elite players in the most elite program in the history of college basketball.”
