Great thread. I am hoping for Wilson to return. If she does, and starts, and develops offensively, then her draft stock skyrockets. She is my point guard for next year.
JVG looks good in many ways, but can she keep from turning the ball over when guarded by small, quick, elite guards? I don't think we have seen enough of her to answer that yet. Given that McDonald is graduating that is one less elite guard in the Pac 12 who could probably discombobulate her ball handling, but there will be others, and all the elite teams we are apt to meet outside of the conference have players like Anna Wilson who can make a point guard miserable. Arizona forced us into a couple of dozen turnovers even with Williams and Wilson on the floor. Without them, it would have been a complete meltdown. Can JVG defeat that kind of pressure? (I'm trying hard not to remember our championship loss to Tennesee in which we had 25 turnovers. Yesterday's game threatened to become a repeat with 21 of them.)
Perhaps JVG is the next Jeanette Pohlen--that would be the ideal--but even Jeanette had some issues with ball handling against certain players.
I really hope that Jenna Brown comes back much improved and ready to play. I feel so badly for her that she was out the whole year we won a national championship. I'd like to see us get a second one that she can help to earn! I think her ball handling was good, she had good moves to the rim, but she lacked the jump shot that JVG clearly does have.
JVG looks good in many ways, but can she keep from turning the ball over when guarded by small, quick, elite guards? I don't think we have seen enough of her to answer that yet. Given that McDonald is graduating that is one less elite guard in the Pac 12 who could probably discombobulate her ball handling, but there will be others, and all the elite teams we are apt to meet outside of the conference have players like Anna Wilson who can make a point guard miserable. Arizona forced us into a couple of dozen turnovers even with Williams and Wilson on the floor. Without them, it would have been a complete meltdown. Can JVG defeat that kind of pressure? (I'm trying hard not to remember our championship loss to Tennesee in which we had 25 turnovers. Yesterday's game threatened to become a repeat with 21 of them.)
Perhaps JVG is the next Jeanette Pohlen--that would be the ideal--but even Jeanette had some issues with ball handling against certain players.
I really hope that Jenna Brown comes back much improved and ready to play. I feel so badly for her that she was out the whole year we won a national championship. I'd like to see us get a second one that she can help to earn! I think her ball handling was good, she had good moves to the rim, but she lacked the jump shot that JVG clearly does have.