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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 11/25/19 1:09 am ::: Will Evina Westbrook EVER play for UConn? |
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Evina Westbrook is being required to sit out this season at UConn. She has two years of college eligibility left. Will she actually use any of them at UConn, and if so, how many?
Evina is already 21. She'll be 22 next September, before the next college season even starts, which also makes her old enough to enter the 2020 WNBA draft in April.
I recall reading that her ambition is to play in the WNBA, preferably at point guard and preferably securing as high a draft spot as possible. Being the starting point guard on an elite team such as UConn would likely have helped that goal. But time's a-wasting, for basketball athleticism peaks at about age 27, and playing for UConn might not burnish her resume much at all.
While Westbrook did not have an eye-popping two-year career at Tennessee, it was pretty good, and everyone will remember that she was the number 1 or 2 ranked player in her high school class. Therefore, in the relatively weak 2020 WNBA draft, it's possible she could be drafted in the first round even without playing at all at UConn, while still getting her degree in May.
But, you say, wouldn't she be better off playing at least one year at UConn to burnish her skills as well as her resume? Crystal Dangerfield will be graduating, so wouldn't Westbrook slide right into UConn's starting lineup at point guard in 2020-21?
No, not necessarily.
Something happened after Westbrook transferred to UConn: Paige Bueckers signed up to show up in Storrs for 2020-21. And Pistol Paige is a better player than Westbrook. While it's possible that Geno might start both Westbrook and Bueckers, having them share the point and off-guard slots like Bird and Taurasi once did, there's no guarantee that Westbrook will start. For one thing, Geno might not want to have a three guard lineup, given that Christyn Williams is likely a lock starter. If Westbrook suspects she may not start next season, much less being the star of the team, she may very well decide that a season at UConn won't enhance her resume much, if at all, and that she's better off jumping to pro ball as soon as possible.
Even if Westbrook plays at UConn for the 2020-21 season, it's difficult to believe she'd stay and play the 2021-22 season too. It's widely expected that the uber-hyped guard, Azzi Fudd, will sign with UConn for 2021-22, Pistol Paige will still be there in the back court, as will senior Christyn Williams. And Westbrook would then be 23 years old. Surely Westbrook would enter the 2021 WNBA draft, especially if Satou Sabally and/or Chennedy Carter had entered (early) in 2020.
Geno knows all this, which surely increases his disappointment in the NCAA's refusal to grant Westbrook a waiver. He wanted her mainly for THIS season, and now he may have her for none. |
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FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 11/25/19 8:35 am ::: |
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Good question. AFAIK, she's still rehabbing from her knee injury and isn't ready to play yet anyway. That won't help her draft stock in the spring. She would have been better off to stay at Tenn, IMHO.
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linkster
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Posted: 11/25/19 3:29 pm ::: |
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I don't see how 2 years at Tenn is enough of a resume. Also, Westbrook is in her third year of college and won't get her degree until May 2021.
It's more likely that Walker will opt out in 2020. She also needs a year to get her degree but she is at least playing this season. It usually comes down to finding out who would draft her. And if she goes it opens up more playing time for Westbrook. But I don't see Westbrook staying past 2021 in any case.
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Hoopsmom
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Posted: 11/25/19 4:02 pm ::: |
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Most female players get their degrees in 3 years or just slightly over 3 years. They have to attend summers, so they take either one or two classes (or more) every summer. That is one reason there are so many grad transfers.
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FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 01/01/20 4:24 pm ::: |
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Per the BY, Evina had another, unspecified surgery on her left knee yesterday and isn't expected to be ready to play until next season. The whole waiver denial issue is a moot point.
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Conway Gamecock
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Posted: 01/01/20 7:51 pm ::: |
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Not a good look for Luigi at all, trying so desperately hard to get a waiver from the NCAA to allow Westbrook to play this season, when she was needing so many medical surgeries on her knees. That's almost medieval.
Forcing a player - or trying to force, really - a player to play when she would have been riddled with stitches and mending surgical wounds is something that Tennessee never even thought of forcing Westbrook to do.
For shame, Luigi.......
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PUmatty
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Posted: 01/01/20 10:43 pm ::: |
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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 01/01/20 10:58 pm ::: |
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PUmatty wrote: |
Conway Gamecock wrote: |
Not a good look for Luigi at all, trying so desperately hard to get a waiver from the NCAA to allow Westbrook to play this season, when she was needing so many medical surgeries on her knees. That's almost medieval.
Forcing a player - or trying to force, really - a player to play when she would have been riddled with stitches and mending surgical wounds is something that Tennessee never even thought of forcing Westbrook to do.
For shame, Luigi....... |
So, are ethnic slurs ok on this board now? |
Not sure what or where the ethnic slur is. Luigi is the first name of the UConn coach, given to him by his parents and with which he was baptized. "Geno" is a nickname. |
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linkster
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Posted: 01/02/20 2:08 pm ::: |
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Westbrook has had knee surgery. No information as to what was done or if she injured it or if this was a clean-up.
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PUmatty
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Posted: 01/02/20 2:54 pm ::: |
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GlennMacGrady wrote: |
PUmatty wrote: |
Conway Gamecock wrote: |
Not a good look for Luigi at all, trying so desperately hard to get a waiver from the NCAA to allow Westbrook to play this season, when she was needing so many medical surgeries on her knees. That's almost medieval.
Forcing a player - or trying to force, really - a player to play when she would have been riddled with stitches and mending surgical wounds is something that Tennessee never even thought of forcing Westbrook to do.
For shame, Luigi....... |
So, are ethnic slurs ok on this board now? |
Not sure what or where the ethnic slur is. Luigi is the first name of the UConn coach, given to him by his parents and with which he was baptized. "Geno" is a nickname. |
Deleted my post. That is my mistake. I have seen people use that term similar to another "name" slur toward Italian Americans.
My apologies to Conway Gamecock.
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pilight
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Posted: 01/02/20 3:19 pm ::: |
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It's the same sort of nonsense as calling Barack Obama "Hussein" or Donald Trump "Drumpf"
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osubeavers
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Posted: 01/02/20 6:11 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
It's the same sort of nonsense as calling Barack Obama "Hussein" or Donald Trump "Drumpf" |
Or calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”?
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pilight
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Posted: 01/02/20 6:22 pm ::: |
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osubeavers wrote: |
pilight wrote: |
It's the same sort of nonsense as calling Barack Obama "Hussein" or Donald Trump "Drumpf" |
Or calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”? |
No, at least the other examples are using real or former names of those people
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summertime blues
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Posted: 01/02/20 6:28 pm ::: |
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osubeavers wrote: |
pilight wrote: |
It's the same sort of nonsense as calling Barack Obama "Hussein" or Donald Trump "Drumpf" |
Or calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”? |
NO, that's just purely racist. The others are making fun of people's given names, which is an entirely different thing.
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cthskzfn
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Conway Gamecock
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user1688
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Posted: 01/03/20 11:23 am ::: |
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No, no, no
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summertime blues
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Posted: 01/03/20 11:43 am ::: |
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People, can we please stop slandering and slanging each other and get back to the discussion of BASKETBALL?
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by absolutely nobody. Dammit, I miss Queenie!
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cthskzfn
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FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 01/03/20 4:09 pm ::: |
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summertime blues wrote: |
People, can we please stop slandering and slanging each other and get back to the discussion of BASKETBALL?
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by absolutely nobody. Dammit, I miss Queenie! |
Completely agree. Maybe we should start a forum where people can take their non-basketball disagreements, and leave basketball threads for discussion of basketball? Oh wait...
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Oldfandepot2
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Posted: 01/03/20 4:43 pm ::: |
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FrozenLVFan wrote: |
summertime blues wrote: |
People, can we please stop slandering and slanging each other and get back to the discussion of BASKETBALL?
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by absolutely nobody. Dammit, I miss Queenie! |
Completely agree. Maybe we should start a forum where people can take their non-basketball disagreements, and leave basketball threads for discussion of basketball? Oh wait... |
I agree as this forum has always been devoid of racism and misogyny but when they rear their ugly head, to protect my children, our decency, I shall not ignore it, but rather point it out to make sure it never happens here again. Having walked shoulder to shoulder with Dr. King, Reverand Abernathy and Ceasar Chavez I stand by my post as I hope I never have to write a post like that here again. I said my peace. Done.
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