Paige and Azzi

[Rings R Us]

Looks like they were working out at DeMatha High School today...can the season start already?? ?

 

[JordyG]

Woo-hoo! Death to designated wildcats, bears, trees and gamecocks.

 

[eebmg]

Wonder how many NPOY awards she has in her duffle bag? Weight training cant start too early

 

[Childhood]

Cant wait

 

[chrissaran]

Could very well be one of the greatest tandems in Women's Basketball History.

 

[oldude]

Silly me, I thought Paige would head home to MN after being away since July. I guess she’ll get there eventually, probably after making stops in Williamsville, NY, Fort Wayne, IN, San Diego.......

 

[Bama fan]

Silly me, I thought Paige would head home to MN after being away since July. I guess she’ll get there eventually, probably after making stops in Williamsville, NY, Fort Wayne, IN, San Diego.......

I think her parents moved to Maryland.

 

[FEGunner]

I think her parents moved to Maryland.

They are. Paige mentioned it in one of her recent interviews.

 

[Sluconn Husky]

 

[RockyMTblue2]

They'll get whistled for delay of game! ?

 

[oldhusky]

By the way, although the family moved, next year's Final Four is in Minneapolis which could be kind of a fairy-tale homecoming for Paige.

 

[Bald Husky]

They'll get whistled for delay of game! ?

Still be ultra sweet

 

[AYusef]

Looks like they were working out at DeMatha High School today...can the season start already?? ?

I've followed wcbb since the early eighties and I can't recall a team adding two players in back to back recruiting classes that were both labeled "generational" talents. I could be wrong but off of the top of my head I can't think of another program.

 

[hoopsfan22]

I've followed wcbb since the early eighties and I can't recall a team adding two players in back to back recruiting classes that were both labeled "generational" talents. I could be wrong but off of the top of my head I can't think of another program.

What about Maya and Delle Donne? Otherwise Maya and Stewie are about as close you'll get.

 

[oldude]

What about Maya and Delle Donne? Otherwise Maya and Stewie are about as close you'll get.

Hard to consider EDD a Husky since she didn’t make it to the first day of classes. She will always be the one that got away.

 

[wolfe613]

I think her parents moved to Maryland.

wasn't her mom living in Montana?

 

[AYusef]

What about Maya and Delle Donne? Otherwise Maya and Stewie are about as close you'll get.

Maya and Stewie were not back to back recruiting classes. Paige and Azzi will play together for 3yrs!!

 

[Argonaut]

I think her parents moved to Maryland.

wasn't her mom living in Montana?

Paige’s dad moved to Maryland from Minnesota and her mom still lives in Montana.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Maya and Stewie were not back to back recruiting classes. Paige and Azzi will play together for 3yrs!!

Hence why I said "about as close as you'll get." Maya and Stewie were I think five years apart. If you have a closer pairing than that of two generational talents going to one team let's hear it. You could also make the argument of Bird and Taurasi who were even closer. Probably need a better word rather than generational to describe these players since there have been a bunch in the last 20 years.

 

[wolfe613]

Maya and Stewie were not back to back recruiting classes. Paige and Azzi will play together for 3yrs!!

Paige is one year older she can enter the draft Jr year if she chooses

 

[Boreifs]

Tina and Maya? Both were starters on the Olympic team; how more generational can one be.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Paige is one year older she can enter the draft Jr year if she chooses

I believe the same is true for Azzi. She was born on Nov. 11, 2002 and is draft eligible in 2024.

 

[wolfe613]

I believe the same is true for Azzi. She was born on Nov. 11, 2002 and is draft eligible in 2024.

Bueckers is eligible in 2023 draft

 

[AYusef]

Tina and Maya? Both were starters on the Olympic team; how more generational can one be.

I loved Tina Charles but she was not labeled a "generational" talent being the #1 recruit doesn't necessarily make you a generational talent.

Hence why I said "about as close as you'll get." Maya and Stewie were I think five years apart. If you have a closer pairing than that of two generational talents going to one team let's hear it. You could also make the argument of Bird and Taurasi who were even closer. Probably need a better word rather than generational to describe these players since there have been a bunch in the last 20 years.

Gotcha...

 

[AYusef]

You could also make the argument of Bird and Taurasi who were even closer. Probably need a better word rather than generational to describe these players since there have been a bunch in the last 20 years.

There are players that became "generational" talents but were they labeled that coming out of HS? that's the difference here with Paige/Azzi. Sue and Diana playing in the same backcourt looking back at it is astonishing because we know what they became. Was Sue Bird considered a generational talent or a piece of great recruiting class? Did anyone really think that Diana would become arguably the greatest women's college bballer ever when she was at Don Lugo HS in Chino, Ca?
I don't know if there is a better word to describe this kind of talent, transcendent maybe? but generational is the term that has always been used.