Finalists Announced for McDonald's Girls Player of the Year!!!

[Wbbfan1]

Three UConn Recruits Make the List.

 

[rvwsleep]

Wow. That means half of the nominee's will be going to UConn. That's about right.

 

[Jackalope]

I think the committee for this award has a pretty easy job in filling out the nominees. They just look at who committed to UCONN and automatically include them!

 

[EricLA]

I am stunned that Boykin is on the list. Congrats to her for sure, but very surprised none the less. And I haven't followed the post players of that class much since we weren't a finalist for any of them, but Kalani Brown must be better than I thought for her to be one of hte top 6.

Lastly, I think it's great that Collier's hair is sort of all over the place. I'm guessing they took the pictures either after some sort of Team USA practice, or whatever, but I could see Napheesa saying "I'm busy working on my game. What? You want to take my picture. Ok lemme just pin my hair up. Come on - make it quick!"

 

[HGN]

My vote goes to Naphessa for her overall Consistency since summer and during the playing season....She hasn't scored as high as KLS but her 25+ points , rebounds , and leadership , and overall play has been outstanding.

 

[CocoHusky]

Wow. That means half of the nominee's will be going to UConn. That's about right.

What are the chances that the other half will eventually regret not coming?

 

[jsloanjr]

What else can you say, but OMG!!!...........They do not rebuild, they just reload..........

 

[rvwsleep]

What are the chances that the other half will eventually regret not coming?

I don't know about all of them but I think at least one will.

 

[AnotherVolFan]

Go Napheesaaaa!!!! I love that girl! Such a solid player and great person inside and out. Once again.....hate you all got her! Lol

 

[Huskies Rule]

rvw- Guessing Ogunbowale? Yes, Eric, puzzling. Boykin was Hoopgurlz #22 and Blue Star #9- well respected but not elite (and injured much of this year). Aside from her impressive talents and stats, Lou leading Mater Dei to national #1 ranking - I think that'll put her over the top.(that and the fact I am totally biased)

rvw- Ohhh. I thought Ogunbowale because she played with the UConn 3 internationally and might have bonded with them.

 

[rvwsleep]

I think it's between KLS and Durr for the award. The later being the one with the regrets IMHO.

 

[EricLA]

Go Napheesaaaa!!!! I love that girl! Such a solid player and great person inside and out. Once again.....hate you all got her! Lol

Please stop posting stuff like this. It might make me actually like some Tennessee fans, and that would potentially signal the beginning of the end of the world (as we know it)!

 

[EricLA]

I think it's between KLS and Durr for the award. The later being the one with the regrets IMHO.

I don't know about that. As far as regrets go. Of course it's impossible to know what a 17 year old kid is thinking, but UCONN was not the right place for her, even if UCONN fans wanted her and she is the #2 kid in the class. Our offense is too complex and requires too much thinking and reacting, and that's not her strength (at least not at the moment - not saying she can't develop that skill)... I think she's at the right place - I could see her having a career similar to Schimmel's - a free flowing player who can pretty much do whatever she wants to on offense with very little reigning in by the HC.

By the way I'm not implying she's uncoachable or anything like that. Just saying that her strengths are not what really good UCONN players strengths are...

 

[DobbsRover2]

Louisville does seem a good fit for Durr, a place where Angel and Shoni were both given enough room to lead the Cards to an NC game. And as both Geno and Chris have mentioned a few times in the Geno shows recently, finding the kind of player that is both good and can fit into UConn's grinding system is getting tough. It certainly has its rewards, but also some extreme challenges that are not for everyone.

Just hope Katie Lou, Napheesa, and DJ don't split that Husky vote between them.

 

[dtbtbtb]

I'm very happy with who we got getting Durr and/or Ogunbowale would have been an over kill. In this case it seems that every one went exactly to the school they should have gone too...Durr will do very very well in Lousville and be an AA and same with Ogunbowale at ND while KLS, Collier and Boykin will pile National Championships

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Think Durr would've been a great player at UConn and I'm sure the coaching staff did as well.

 

[AnotherVolFan]

Please stop posting stuff like this. It might make me actually like some Tennessee fans, and that would potentially signal the beginning of the end of the world (as we know it)!

We can love each other until we have to play again! Lol

 

[MilfordHusky]

Congrats to all the kids! I'm surprised about DJB, but only because she missed much of the season.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

If I recall Geno basically said good bye.

Not sure where you saw that. To my knowledge they were still in on Durr until she shortened her list to five.

 

[rvwsleep]

If I recall Geno basically said good bye..

Recall again. The main reason Durr is not here is because Nurse is.

 

[BlueDevils]

Selfish Geno

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I think it's between KLS and Durr for the award. The later being the one with the regrets IMHO.

I breathed a sigh of relief on Durr. Ditto last year on A Wms.

 

[ndmb]

If I recall Geno basically said goodbye.

Where are you getting that? This kind of nonsense has gotten thrown around on here at way too many kids who've done nothing except decide not to come here. Don't get me wrong, I think that Geo has the best track record for developing talent, but there are a ton of tremendous, skilled, unselfish athletes who have perfectly valid reasons to go somewhere else.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I don't know about that. As far as regrets go. Of course it's impossible to know what a 17 year old kid is thinking, but UCONN was not the right place for her, even if UCONN fans wanted her and she is the #2 kid in the class. Our offense is too complex and requires too much thinking and reacting, and that's not her strength (at least not at the moment - not saying she can't develop that skill)... I think she's at the right place - I could see her having a career similar to Schimmel's - a free flowing player who can pretty much do whatever she wants to on offense with very little reigning in by the HC.

By the way I'm not implying she's uncoachable or anything like that. Just saying that her strengths are not what really good UCONN players strengths are...

+3

 

[Sluconn Husky]

Trying to figure out when this notion of Durr not being a team player or not fitting UConn started. Is it because she scores a ton of points in HS? She really has no choice there as she's practically her entire team.