[TheFarm07]

We need better guard play next year.  Otherwise we will waste the brilliance of Iriafen with a 22-12 season.

Where is that better guard play going to come from? I had high hopes for Harriel at one point but she seems to have regressed as both a shooter and a ball handler. Bosgana not consistent enough. Ogden and Clardy still have a long way to go and I wonder how much they can improve. Lepolo seems to have lost all confidence in her shot.

We’ve had so many elite post players but we haven’t had a guard who could score off the dribble since Candice Wiggins.   We certainly try and recruit those kind of players.  We recruited Watkins, Hidalgo, Clark, Bueckers and Ionescu and Plum before them but they never seem to choose us in the end.  I wonder if they feel our offense is too structured.  And yes I am not optimistic things will change much next year.

Unfortunately it's the same conversation we have every year. You can add Hartley and Rice and others to that list. 

Kiana Williams was a great example of how well it worked.

You don't have to go back to even Ionescu to come up with a long list of guards who we recruited recently that turned us down: Watkins & Hidalgo are obviously the big ones from this year, but Rice, Osborne and Londynn Jones were all on our list as well as Citron and Miles from N.D. Nearly all of them were more consistent offensive threats their freshman season than most of our guards now two to three seasons into their collegiate careers.

We really need to re-examine our recruiting and ask ourselves why the disparity in being able to have a much higher success rate in converting elite posts & forwards who were admitted and had Stanford among our finalists than their guard counterparts?

Kiana Williams was the one major exception recently and you just have to re-watch some of the highlights from our 2021 championship run to see the difference a guard who can create her own shot can do to your offense.

[TheFarm07]

We need better guard play next year.  Otherwise we will waste the brilliance of Iriafen with a 22-12 season.

Where is that better guard play going to come from? I had high hopes for Harriel at one point but she seems to have regressed as both a shooter and a ball handler. Bosgana not consistent enough. Ogden and Clardy still have a long way to go and I wonder how much they can improve. Lepolo seems to have lost all confidence in her shot.

We’ve had so many elite post players but we haven’t had a guard who could score off the dribble since Candice Wiggins.   We certainly try and recruit those kind of players.  We recruited Watkins, Hidalgo, Clark, Bueckers and Ionescu and Plum before them but they never seem to choose us in the end.  I wonder if they feel our offense is too structured.  And yes I am not optimistic things will change much next year.

Unfortunately it's the same conversation we have every year. You can add Hartley and Rice and others to that list. 

Kiana Williams was a great example of how well it worked.

You don't have to go back to even Ionescu to come up with a long list of guards who we recruited recently that turned us down: Watkins & Hidalgo are obviously the big ones from this year, but Rice, Osborne and Londynn Jones were all on our list as well as Citron and Miles from N.D. Nearly all of them were more consistent offensive threats their freshman season than most of our guards now two to three seasons into their collegiate careers.

We really need to re-examine our recruiting and ask ourselves why the disparity in being able to have a much higher success rate in converting elite posts & forwards who were admitted and had Stanford among our finalists than their guard counterparts?

Kiana Williams was the one major exception recently and you just have to re-watch some of the highlights from our 2021 championship run to see the difference a guard who can create her own shot can do to your offense.