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A confession to make. Saniya is my Husky fave since she was my nearby Westchester heroine in recent years and will be the only one still playing in Storrs when I hit a certain nasty age milestone. Plus her tiptoe assassin movements around the court are just so cool to watch as she stalks around looking for a block or steal. But our local girl is strictly blue collar since she was buried down the list at #75 in the always astute HoopGurlz 2013 class rankings with a 93 score, so clearly down there you knew she was the type of player who dribbles the ball off her foot and shoots at the wrong basket most of the time.
I grabbed the stats of all the HoopGurlz 5 Star Class of 2013 guard or wing types who are listed at 6-2 or under (within 5 inches of Chong), the type of players who at least vaguely resemble her position for UConn, though there is a huge variety for how those 11 active players (plus two red shirts with Duke's Rebecca Greenwell and Tenn's Jannah Tucker) fill their own team roles. These 11 plus Saniya are all either already starring or pretty promising players (some BYers might want to do some dumping, but the careers are still young), and some have some eye-popping stats like Kaela Davis's 17.6 ppg and 6.4 rpg, Ronnie Williams' 6.6 rpg, Lexie Brown's 59 assists and 2.7 A\TO ratio, Diamond DeShields' 30 steals, and Rebekah Dahlman's 51.4 3-pt%. Almost without exception, the 11 5-stars have been called on to fill big roles on their teams off the bat, with UNC doing the most calling with three of the guards in the lineup. All but KY's Linnae Harper have chalked up at least 16.0 mpg (minutes per game, not miles per gallon) and 8 have at least 20.0. Preseason, Saniya was not expected to get that kind of time, but with some UConn injuries she has posted more than 20.0 mpg and made good use of her minutes.
That said, Chong is not a hyped Sveta-Maya-Stewie type freshman for the Huskies who is expected to do a lot of scoring, like most of the 11 5-stars are much more so for their their teams, especially Davis, DeShields, Dahlman, and Allisha Gray. Only one of the 5-stars averages less ppg than Chong, who is just expected to get out there and do a little of everything for the Huskies and be a tough perimeter defender in UConn's highly ranked defense.
So how does Chong stack up in the stats against the blue-chippers? In three categories she is at or near the top: TOs (or TOs per minute) at #1, Blocks at #2, and FT% at #3, and she is #4 in FG% and 3-FG%. Clearly some categories like PPG, RPG, and Assists matter more than Blocks and Steals, but if you simply add up the rankings for each of the players in the 9 categories besides MPG, Chong has the 3rd best average among the 12. The ranks are: 1. Gray (3.6), 2. Moncrief (4.6), 3. Chong (5.4), 4. Deshields (5.6), 5. Dahlman (5.7), 6. Davis (5.9), 7t. Brown (6.2), 7t. Washington (6.2), 9. Scaife (6.8), 10. Williams (7.1), 11. Harper (8.3), 12. Small (9.1). Some players like Davis are getting a lot more minutes and get more chance to boost their totals.
I am not saying that Chong is having the third best season among the 12 or that there aren't very possibly a couple more 4-star freshman guards who would represent well in this comparison. But Chong is definitely having a nice little season so far and can be mentioned in the same breath as HG's 5-stars without any big stretch. Four of them still have not hit any 3-pt shots this year, four are shooting less than 40% on FGs, two are below 60% on FTs, half of them have no blocks while Chong has batted 6, and Williams' 0.25 and Davis's 0.43 A\TO ratios are a bit yikes. But Brown's A\TO ratio of 2.7 with 59 assists is marvelous, and Dahlman is one of those Sector 13 types who shoots 43.2% for FGs but is at 51.4% on 3-pt shots. And all except maybe Small have made some good to great impressions this year.
Fun times and it's good to see our local girl fitting in and doing well.
I grabbed the stats of all the HoopGurlz 5 Star Class of 2013 guard or wing types who are listed at 6-2 or under (within 5 inches of Chong), the type of players who at least vaguely resemble her position for UConn, though there is a huge variety for how those 11 active players (plus two red shirts with Duke's Rebecca Greenwell and Tenn's Jannah Tucker) fill their own team roles. These 11 plus Saniya are all either already starring or pretty promising players (some BYers might want to do some dumping, but the careers are still young), and some have some eye-popping stats like Kaela Davis's 17.6 ppg and 6.4 rpg, Ronnie Williams' 6.6 rpg, Lexie Brown's 59 assists and 2.7 A\TO ratio, Diamond DeShields' 30 steals, and Rebekah Dahlman's 51.4 3-pt%. Almost without exception, the 11 5-stars have been called on to fill big roles on their teams off the bat, with UNC doing the most calling with three of the guards in the lineup. All but KY's Linnae Harper have chalked up at least 16.0 mpg (minutes per game, not miles per gallon) and 8 have at least 20.0. Preseason, Saniya was not expected to get that kind of time, but with some UConn injuries she has posted more than 20.0 mpg and made good use of her minutes.
That said, Chong is not a hyped Sveta-Maya-Stewie type freshman for the Huskies who is expected to do a lot of scoring, like most of the 11 5-stars are much more so for their their teams, especially Davis, DeShields, Dahlman, and Allisha Gray. Only one of the 5-stars averages less ppg than Chong, who is just expected to get out there and do a little of everything for the Huskies and be a tough perimeter defender in UConn's highly ranked defense.
So how does Chong stack up in the stats against the blue-chippers? In three categories she is at or near the top: TOs (or TOs per minute) at #1, Blocks at #2, and FT% at #3, and she is #4 in FG% and 3-FG%. Clearly some categories like PPG, RPG, and Assists matter more than Blocks and Steals, but if you simply add up the rankings for each of the players in the 9 categories besides MPG, Chong has the 3rd best average among the 12. The ranks are: 1. Gray (3.6), 2. Moncrief (4.6), 3. Chong (5.4), 4. Deshields (5.6), 5. Dahlman (5.7), 6. Davis (5.9), 7t. Brown (6.2), 7t. Washington (6.2), 9. Scaife (6.8), 10. Williams (7.1), 11. Harper (8.3), 12. Small (9.1). Some players like Davis are getting a lot more minutes and get more chance to boost their totals.
I am not saying that Chong is having the third best season among the 12 or that there aren't very possibly a couple more 4-star freshman guards who would represent well in this comparison. But Chong is definitely having a nice little season so far and can be mentioned in the same breath as HG's 5-stars without any big stretch. Four of them still have not hit any 3-pt shots this year, four are shooting less than 40% on FGs, two are below 60% on FTs, half of them have no blocks while Chong has batted 6, and Williams' 0.25 and Davis's 0.43 A\TO ratios are a bit yikes. But Brown's A\TO ratio of 2.7 with 59 assists is marvelous, and Dahlman is one of those Sector 13 types who shoots 43.2% for FGs but is at 51.4% on 3-pt shots. And all except maybe Small have made some good to great impressions this year.
Fun times and it's good to see our local girl fitting in and doing well.