5'5"Crystal and a hair over 5'6" MoJeff were excellent Geno materials......the collection of players who come dictates the kind of style of BB his team plays. Based on his track record however, he would prefer a running team with interchangeable parts who can shoot from distance and all hardworking on defense. He now has that with his current team....and he can substitute in waves.Anything over 6'-5" is Geno material.
I agree with the thoughts in this post other than UConn having ALL the pieces. While for once we appear to have a great set of 4's and 5's, we do not have a shut down defensive guard, ala MoJeff. Williams and Muhl were good but struggled against smaller, quick offensive players. A grad transfer who is satisfied with 6-12 minutes a game and can take the opposition's top 3 point shooter out of her comfort zone would be outstanding.
I think that is irrelevant. It was national signing week.
if we get cardosa, our only weakness next year will possibly be perimeter defense and I expect we will be better at it next year than we were this year as well. But, it will not matter unless some guard can go off for 40 plus, we will run over everybody next year assuming we get cardosa).
If we have say a 6'7 and either a 6'5 or 6'3 clogging the paint area that leaves 3 guards manning (is that pc?) the perimeter..sounds good to me...if they have 4 good shooters...bring in AG..
Whose 6-12 minutes would this shut down defensive guard take? Bueckers, Fudd, Williams, Westbrook, Muhl for three positions.
Hey - let’s not forget New Bedford! (MA has the second highest number of Portuguese descendants after CA.)Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, & São Tomé and Príncipe.
Except for Brazil, none of them are much into women's basketball. Think she is going to have to stick to English for her college career.
My vote is for 48 min games!
With 14 scholarship players on board, there will be other problems than coping with a very quick guard of the opposition. There are other ways: the switching defense just has to be more coordinated and quicker in switches - it took them almost a whole season to be synchronized but there were still lapses. If the very quick opposition guard or wing plays 30+ minutes, what can a grad transfer designated for that do in 6-12 minutes. If you extend her minutes, you take away from the offensive capabilities of the team. So, they just have to get better on team defense to minimize the damage while keeping the scorers on the floor to outscore the opposition. That's how the undefeated team of 2001-2002 covered for DT's weakness: on-ball defense. Of course, DT was good at positional defense, so she won half the battle.
Jayda Williams? She’s already in and out the portal
Lol yeah I was being sarcastic.
What team did not struggle against smaller, quick guards?
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Amaya is a senior, but did post big things to come my friend on Kamilla timeline.
As I indicated, Kara could certainly be reaching out to Cardoso. What we honestly don’t know is whether or not Geno has any interest. I know many on the BY believe he should pursue her. Personally, I’m ambivalent.