Aubrey has not shown any variety to her game as of yet. And until she does I don't think she'll be fine. Where's the pull-up jumper? Where's the 3-point shot? NOT taking shots during a game can be habit-forming. Look at Molly and Kyla, eh?
We haven’t seen any mid range game from Aubrey but she didn’t miss from that location in warm ups last night.
The first time Mickey faced Sandy the lefty threw a fastball up and in for a strike. The next pitch was a 12/6 curve on the outside corner. Mickey turned to the ump and said, "How the hell am I supposed to hit that spit?"
Sounds good .. but as Kyrie sez, "Practice & repetition drills are fine, but if you don't do it during a game, you don't have it"
She is not being asked to do those things, in fact, I am sure she is being told not to. Did you really think she was going to come in and get the freedom she had in HS with Dangerfield, Walker, Williams and Ono on the team? This is not Ossining and she has to learn how to play in a free flowing but structured system, not come here firing up shots like she was able to do in HS. With all due respect, it seems you need to transition your thinking from HS ball to D1 also.
With our mind we see senior Gabby as a dominating force. As the uber athletic Gabulous One. With our eyes we see freshman Aubrey with tantalizing glimpses of lightening athleticism. She is 'Aubrelicious'.
Agree with Gabby as a great athlete, difficult to match her in that regard.
A player who hasn’t quite figured out how to take advantage of the physical gifts they were born with.
This is the same Kyrie Irving who is not sure whether or not the earth is flat?
She has a mid and long range game. The time will come when she will show both.
But I guarantee Kyrie didn't get that handle and that uncanny ability to finish outside of practice and repetition. The gym is where you learn the skill. The game is where you apply it.
Eggzackly! .. this is what I meant when I quoted Kyrie...
Haha .. I never heard thatThis is the same Kyrie Irving who is not sure whether or not the earth is flat?
Kyrie is a talented basketball player but he is a bit of an odd fellow.Haha .. I never heard that
Just think how odd he would be if he stayed longer at Duke.
I think the comparison with Gabby should be taken as a compliment, rather than as a realistic comparison. How does one measure " athleticism?" Everyone on the team is an exceptional athlete. Some are superior basketball players, as well. No one will out-jump Gabby, because she was trained as an olympic-quality high jumper ( best in the world kind of thing ). And being good enough to be considered an olympic qualifier is quite the athletic distinction. But in a 40 yard sprint; Gabby vs, Aubrey? Who knows? Gabby had the fastest hands ( on defense ) we have seen in years. Does Aubrey have the same? She might. In the end, is Aubrey going to be a better basketball player? Possibly...because she has been at it longer than Gabby, by freshman year at UCONN. Don't forget; Gabby missed almost two years of HS ball due to surgeries. In any case, we shall never know the answer to the best athlete question, although it is hard to not lean toward Gabby, due to the olympic thing. I am wasting too much of your time. It was a high compliment to give Aubrey, even if we may not all immediately accept it as fact.
I guess Kyrie never had time for an Astronomy class.Just think how odd he would be if he stayed longer at Duke.
In the second game that Mantle faced Koufax (game 4 1963 WS), he hit a home run off of Sandy for the Yankees only run.
Nice.
Or a physics class, Good thing basketballs aren't flat.
One of my most salient of pet peeves. Not to create too much thread drift, but oddness doesn't seem necessary for people to believe the Earth is flat. I've seen some very intelligent people become proponents of Geocentric Theory proofs, while completely ignorant to the fact that these theories have been debunked hundreds of times, hundreds of years ago. Not to mention that none of them are capable of creating a map of the Earth that can't be crushed by observable events in the natural world. I've seen many who think, because they are intelligent and are perhaps experts in their chosen field, that their expertise in completely unrelated fields makes them experts in earth sciences.
