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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 14:09:01 GMT -5
Looking for future Huskys:
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Post by chicagogg on Sept 22, 2021 14:32:19 GMT -5
Hmmm. Bringing out the star power on the recruiting trail! Pretty impressive for any recruit AND their HS coach.
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Post by bulkey on Sept 22, 2021 15:30:07 GMT -5
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Post by rockymtblue2 on Sept 22, 2021 16:11:35 GMT -5
Gotta wonder how other coaches feel when they arrive to find the Geno phalanx in the bleachers.
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Post by jhusky on Sept 23, 2021 2:22:32 GMT -5
Hmmm. Bringing out the star power on the recruiting trail! Pretty impressive for any recruit AND their HS coach. Yes, that surely demonstrates Uconn's recruiting priority. |
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Post by doggydaddy on Sept 23, 2021 6:14:19 GMT -5
Gotta wonder how other coaches feel when they arrive to find the Geno phalanx in the bleachers. There is a picture of Geo and Ashlyn Shade’s Coach together. It was posted on Volnation and the response was “well, it’s over”. Haha…love when it makes them crazy!! |
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Post by bulkey on Sept 23, 2021 7:15:14 GMT -5
Here are her full summer highlights. Pretty darn precocious for someone who just finished 9th grade. She really explodes upward on her jumper. Super skills. Like watching tape of Paige at that point, you ask yourself: could she play in the WNBA right now? I take back my snarkiness on the earlier thread.
In fact, it'd be interesting to compare her 8th grade tape to Paige's:
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Post by swash on Sept 23, 2021 9:35:47 GMT -5
Here are her full summer highlights. Pretty darn precocious for someone who just finished 9th grade. She really explodes upward on her jumper. Super skills. Like watching tape of Paige at that point, you ask yourself: could she play in the WNBA right now? I take back my snarkiness on the earlier thread. In fact, it'd be interesting to compare her 8th grade tape to Paige's: At 6'1" already, I'd project her as a wing that can play 1-3, whereas Paige was a PG that could play 1-3. Highlights only show shots that do go in, so we don't know about efficiency yet. She's certainly got ups and defensive timing and is a very good passer for her age. I do see similarities, but Paige had the passing edge even then, and her ball-skills were a bit better - as expected for a PG. OO however, looks like a surefire bet to be very good in WCBB and beyond. |
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Post by bulkey on Sept 23, 2021 9:45:32 GMT -5
At 6'1" already, I'd project her as a wing that can play 1-3, whereas Paige was a PG that could play 1-3. Highlights only show shots that do go in, so we don't know about efficiency yet. She's certainly got ups and defensive timing and is a very good passer for her age. I do see similarities, but Paige had the passing edge even then, and her ball-skills were a bit better - as expected for a PG. OO however, looks like a surefire bet to be very good in WCBB and beyond. Right. I think they seem like different players, as are all players. As DD once said, for Paige, the ball is on a string. No one handles the ball as well as she. At 15, OO might still grow, and she may go to the wing. But I'm betting the 2 guard, since she'll want that front look at the basket. When we think of Paige and Caitlin Clark in their freshmen year, and here's OO (already putting Ashlynn in the shade) and of potentially equal stature to Paige and Caitlin, it's really extraordinary. A generation ago, we'd have called them once in a generation players. It's as if someone made multiple near-clones of Dee. I had thought that Sabrina Ionescu was the best guard I'd seen since Dee. Now they're all over the place. |
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Post by semper on Sept 23, 2021 10:29:54 GMT -5
Yeah it's amazing. Once in a generation has moved to best of her year. We are in a golden age of WCBB, and it's going to transform the WNBA in its wake. It's a great time to be a fan!
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Post by bulkey on Sept 23, 2021 10:37:07 GMT -5
Yeah it's amazing. Once in a generation has moved to best of her year. We are in a golden age of WCBB, and it's going to transform the WNBA in its wake. It's a great time to be a fan! +1 The thing about Paige and Caitlin and OO is how athletic they are. They are physically strong (despite Paige being a bit of a bean) and quick and can jump and very tough--no hesitancy about attacking the rim. They are trained better and professionally from a very early age and, with the explosion of extra-mural tournaments, the are playing top competition through most of the year. When a 9th grader has 33 college scholarship offers (I'm betting 34 before Geno left town) and now potentially millions from NIL waiting in college, for both better and worse, parents will do anything to get their kids to the top. Is WCBB the new women's gymnastics? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2021 13:04:25 GMT -5
Gotta wonder how other coaches feel when they arrive to find the Geno phalanx in the bleachers. There is a picture of Geo and Ashlyn Shade’s Coach together. It was posted on Volnation and the response was “well, it’s over”. Haha…love when it makes them crazy!! Here it is DD, and you can't see it, but Geno's giving Lady Troll Nation a sign..... giphy.com/gifs/futbol-I7p8K5EY9w9dC |
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Post by bulkey on Sept 23, 2021 13:12:11 GMT -5
This is the key: Geno trains super-successful WNBA players. Geno's schmoozing the high school coach (and who in the world is better at that?) is gold for UConn. |
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Post by linkster on Sept 23, 2021 17:07:56 GMT -5
This is the key: Geno trains super-successful WNBA players. Geno's schmoozing the high school coach (and who in the world is better at that?) is gold for UConn. I suspect that young (9-10) girls and especially their families see basketball as a viable career choice. When there was no WNBA wcbb was a way of getting a free education. Today parents are looking at which school is developing pro basketball players along with the value of a degree. I also agree with the comments about there seeming to be more "generational" type players moving through HS. Maybe it's due to HS's and AAU programs attracting better coaching and maybe it's just Youtube etc. putting players on a national stage? |
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Post by bulkey on Sept 23, 2021 17:51:26 GMT -5
This is the key: Geno trains super-successful WNBA players. Geno's schmoozing the high school coach (and who in the world is better at that?) is gold for UConn. I suspect that young (9-10) girls and especially their families see basketball as a viable career choice. When there was no WNBA wcbb was a way of getting a free education. Today parents are looking at which school is developing pro basketball players along with the value of a degree. I also agree with the comments about there seeming to be more "generational" type players moving through HS. Maybe it's due to HS's and AAU programs attracting better coaching and maybe it's just Youtube etc. putting players on a national stage? Great point. I think one of the OO videos I posted was a self-promotion. |
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Post by linkster on Sept 23, 2021 17:55:33 GMT -5
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Post by grrrrr on Sept 23, 2021 21:55:34 GMT -5
Not fair to compare anyone to Paige but dang OO is some kind of ballplayer, for a HIGH SCHOOL freshmen, jeez.
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Post by bulkey on Sept 24, 2021 7:04:46 GMT -5
Not fair to compare anyone to Paige but dang OO is some kind of ballplayer, for a HIGH SCHOOL freshmen, jeez. I agree. To be clear, I was not comparing Paige and OO as players. Each player is their own. I was saying only that like with Paige, when you see those tapes of OO as a 9th grader you wonder whether she could be in the WNBA already. Of course they couldn't. But the level of play is extraordinary. |
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Post by grrrrr on Sept 24, 2021 8:45:48 GMT -5
Not fair to compare anyone to Paige but dang OO is some kind of ballplayer, for a HIGH SCHOOL freshmen, jeez. I agree. To be clear, I was not comparing Paige and OO as players. Each player is their own. I was saying only that like with Paige, when you see those tapes of OO as a 9th grader you wonder whether she could be in the WNBA already. Of course they couldn't. But the level of play is extraordinary. No, I know you weren't comparing them, but anyone looking at OO's videos would have to think, "She reminds me of someone, who is it?" Oh yeah, I know. She reminds me of Supergirl at the same age. I wonder how many elementary and middle school girls in Minnesota have grown up following and mimicking Paige? Probably hundreds. Hopkins games were on Minnesota cable tv all the time as well as posted on Youtube. OO is not Paige and doesn't have to be, I have the feeling that being OO is going to work out just fine. |
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Post by bulkey on Sept 24, 2021 9:07:16 GMT -5
I agree. To be clear, I was not comparing Paige and OO as players. Each player is their own. I was saying only that like with Paige, when you see those tapes of OO as a 9th grader you wonder whether she could be in the WNBA already. Of course they couldn't. But the level of play is extraordinary. No, I know you weren't comparing them, but anyone looking at OO's videos would have to think, "She reminds me of someone, who is it?" Oh yeah, I know. She reminds me of Supergirl at the same age. I wonder how many elementary and middle school girls in Minnesota have grown up following and mimicking Paige? Probably hundreds. Hopkins games were on Minnesota cable tv all the time as well as posted on Youtube. OO is not Paige and doesn't have to be, I have the feeling that being OO is going to work out just fine. Agreed! It's as if "girl's" basketball is suddenly the thing to do. Like women's/girl's gymnastics after Nadia Colmenasci: suddenly every young girl wanted to be like that, and now we have Simone Biles. As a team sport in which most of your high school teammates are not very good, it's much harder to get great early in basketball. That's why all this extra-mural play, domestic and international, has probably made a huge difference, too. |
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Post by semper on Sept 24, 2021 9:20:21 GMT -5
And the BBall Camps too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 9:50:58 GMT -5
Here are her full summer highlights. Pretty darn precocious for someone who just finished 9th grade. She really explodes upward on her jumper. Super skills. Like watching tape of Paige at that point, you ask yourself: could she play in the WNBA right now? I take back my snarkiness on the earlier thread. In fact, it'd be interesting to compare her 8th grade tape to Paige's: What if she has a late growth spurt like Dr J or David Robinson!!?!! |
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Post by bulkey on Sept 24, 2021 10:02:41 GMT -5
What if she has a late growth spurt like Dr J or David Robinson!!?!! Maybe she'll go from being the next Dee to being the next Maya? |
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Post by grrrrr on Sept 24, 2021 13:25:16 GMT -5
If OO is already 6-1, she could be 6-3 or 6-4 by the time she hits 18. Oh man.
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Post by linkster on Sept 24, 2021 13:39:05 GMT -5
Hopkins, Bueckers' team, is the UConn of Minn. and their now retired coach, Cosgriff, was the Geno of Minn. Cosgriff had 5 state title before Bueckers enrolled. As an 8th grader she was primarily a 3 pt shooter on a very talented team.
In the video she enters at the 5:50 mark of the video and makes her 1st shot at the 8 min mark. The team was struggling offensively until she entered.
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