Over the Top or Overkill?

Over the Top or Overkill?
by dillon77 (2024-04-28 12:54:29)
Edited on 2024-04-28 13:48:08

In reply to: Chen to UCONN posted by Knuteberg

Very good player and several Ivies have killed it in the transfer portal (Abby Meyers at Maryland; most of USC's starters not named Juju Watkins last year).

Also, Carla Berube -- a Geno clone now coaching at Princeton -- must've felt the fit was right for her star. However, this strikes me as being painfully close to what we'd call a "recruiting over" situation, popularized by coaches like he-who-used-not-to-named at Louisville: get transfers over players you have or have just signed as frosh.

As noted, Paige Bueckers isn't really a power forward and should be moving back to either off guard or lead guard, particularly with Sarah Strong coming into be some kind of power/point forward.

However, Azzi Fudd is coming back, too, and she's strictly a #2. So what does this do with KK Arnold, a lead guard, and Ashlynn Shade a #2 or #3. Plus, there's Allie Ziebell or Morgan Cheli coming in and both of them play either the #2 (Ziebell) or #3 (Cheli).

Well, there's zounds of talent there and maybe Geno will get a rotation...but he's never been a rotation kind of guy. Maybe Auriemma just felt he got close last year with a hybrid team and now he doesn't have any proven forwards; so load it up with guards.

Stay tuned.