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toad455
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| Megdal teasing about Guirantes declaring early tomorrow. Come on!
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| Posted: 04/06/20 10:04 pm ::: |
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| I had heard Satou was waffling a bit with all that's going on, so now she's made it official. I wouldn't have been surprised either way.
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| Posted: 04/06/20 10:07 pm ::: |
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| I had heard Satou was waffling a bit with all that's going on, so now she's made it official. I wouldn't have been surprised either way. |
Yeah, some people in the league definitely thought she was pulling out one stage. I wonder if she got some kind of confirmation that she'll make some level of cash beyond the WNBA (sponsorship, overseas team, national federation, whatever) and that swayed her back. |
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| Posted: 04/07/20 6:16 am ::: |
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Connecticut Sun: 2020 WNBA Draft Preview
https://doublegsports.com/connecticut-sun-2020-wnba-draft-preview/
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| The Connecticut Sun will have the 23rd and 35th pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft. |
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| Surprisingly, Connecticut traded Courtney Williams to the Atlanta Dream and lost Shekinna Stricklen to free agency. |
Not too surprising when you consider they effectively broke up the band by throwing max money at Bonner and tried lowballing Williams.
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Draft Pick Number Twenty-Three
Team Needs: Scoring/Assassin Mentality
Draft Selection: Kaila Charles- University of Maryland |
The author was pretty glowing about a player he expects to be available at #23. I’d be surprised if she went this low. That could be the bargain of the night.
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Draft Pick Number Thirty-Five
Team Needs: Combo Guard/Scoring/Assassin Mentality
Draft Selection: Chelsea Mitchell-Morgan State University |
Who? Never heard of her, so I expect her to be available at #35. Don’t expect she’ll get drafted or invited by anyone.
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| Expect the Sun to enter the draft night with intention, and strategy. |
Miller has had to do most of his prospect analysis from his basement this year, so good luck finding anybody who can contribute to the team with these picks.
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| Posted: 04/07/20 10:40 am ::: |
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https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/liberty/walt-hopkins-liberty-wnba-draft-1.43717001
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The Liberty’s second pick of the draft will likely be a player that has a good chance to make the final roster.
“We have so much time left really and the way that we’re working it feels like a lot of time,” Hopkins said. “I know that it’s not, but it’s like every day it’s just jam-packed with calls to the prospects now. This week we’ve been able to call. We have our staff calls and talk through everything. It still does feel like we have tons of prep time.” |
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| Posted: 04/07/20 2:41 pm ::: |
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A Northwestern blog site features toad’s “true center” .
Q&A: Abi Scheid talks upcoming WNBA Draft
https://www.insidenu.com/2020/4/7/21207772/abi-scheid-wnba-draft-q-and-a-northwestern-womens-basketball-three-point-shooter
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Inside NU: Draftsite projected you to get picked at the end of the second round, and it listed you as a center. Do you see yourself more as a center or a stretch four at the next level?
Scheid: I would definitely say I see myself more as a stretch four than a five, getting both inside and outside touches. |
I wonder if draftsite will listen?
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Inside NU: You grew up in Minnesota and have spent the last four years in Evanston. Do you have a strong desire to play for either the Minnesota Lynx or the Chicago Sky?
Scheid: I have family and friends in both those places, so that would definitely be really cool to play for either of those teams. But I also think it would be good to experience something new, and I’m honestly up to any opportunity that comes my way. |
She has self awareness enough to realize she can’t be fussy.
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| Posted: 04/07/20 2:55 pm ::: |
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Good find. I'm interested in seeing how Cox does defensively against the more undersized, athletic, quicker PFs (N. Ogwumike, Howard, etc.) if she'll indeed play more PF in the W.
Honestly if I had to pick a secondary position for her after PF, it would be SF and not C. Unlike Kiah Gillespie, a fellow 6'2 stretch-4 prospect projected to go well ahead of her, Scheid doesn't have the physicality to rebound or bang inside with even other 4s let alone 5s. But unlike Gillespie (career 29.7% 3PT on 373 total attempts), Scheid (career 40.4% 3PT on 426 total attempts) can actually make those 3's with consistency.
As an aside, I didn't know that Tangela Smith is an Assistant Coach for Northwestern WBB. I'm sure Scheid benefitted from her coaching the past couple years...
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| Posted: 04/07/20 5:00 pm ::: |
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| So I guess it's safe to assume no one else is entering the draft early.
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| Posted: 04/08/20 12:11 am ::: |
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Arella Guirantes officially will not enter the 2020 WNBA Draft and instead return to Rutgers for her final season of eligibility.
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The Big Ten's leading scorer this past season, ranking ninth nationally at 20.6 points per game, Guirantes, a 5-foot-11 guard, was widely projected as a late-first or early second-round pick in the 12-team draft.
Guirantes indicated in a statement that she only reached her decision Tuesday, the deadline to enter. |
Did Megdal definitively say at any point that Guirantes was actually entering? If so... he really should just sit out the entire subject of early declarers from now on (despite having a 50% chance of reporting it correctly, oof).
Also, I'd like to get full-on confirmation that all three early declarers indeed didn't back out on their declaration (Sabally we know was considering it but kept her commitment to turn pro and reportedly did file the necessary paperwork). It'd be really interesting if we were to find out at a moment's notice that somebody got cold feet. It seems like this would be the year that that would happen.
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| Posted: 04/08/20 7:42 am ::: |
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| It would be nice if .com had a list of the top prospects on their site, including the early entries of Sabally, Carter & Walker.
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| Posted: 04/08/20 12:34 pm ::: |
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| If i had a dime..............
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