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How can UCLA get quality guard after quality guard and we can't recruit guards worth a crap. That's the missing piece for us. I'll feel better if Nivar picks Stanford. If not, just another disappointment. We've had so many misses with guards, it's hard to even remember them all. 

I wish her well, but I also don't get that choice given their guard situation.  They have too many top guards, if that can even be a thing.  Is she going to push Osborne out when she comes in with Osborne a junior?  What does Londynn Jones, another top guard going to UCLA who is a point, think of this?  They all can't play the point, as pointed out above, and playing the point is key to getting a better shot at the WNBA, all that stuff.  Close has done better getting her talent to be a cohesive and winning team in the past few years than she used to but still and all, she is what I think of as a prime example of a decent coach but not a great one, whose teams have generally not played up to the talent level.  She had the WNBA rookie of the year for this year on her team, plus Canada, who is in the WNBA, etc., and not all that much to show for it.  Maybe Rice takes them to the next level?  Is she that good?  

I hope Nivar sees plenty of playing time and says yes.

Yeah, it's too bad we can't recruit quality cards.  the second-rate guards we had last year did help us win a natty though

There's a difference between elite HS senior recruit point guards and four-years-older, high-quality COLLEGE senior point guards.  Fortunately, we have been able to develop a few of the latter over the years, but, frankly, our inability over the past ~10 [15? 20?] years to recruit the former is sort of an elephant in the room, even if folks don't want to discuss it.

I'm slightly consoled, though, by the fact that Close almost always manages to figure out some way to lose to us, regardless of her talent.  Hope that trend continues.

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How can UCLA get quality guard after quality guard and we can't recruit guards worth a crap. That's the missing piece for us. I'll feel better if Nivar picks Stanford. If not, just another disappointment. We've had so many misses with guards, it's hard to even remember them all. 

I wish her well, but I also don't get that choice given their guard situation.  They have too many top guards, if that can even be a thing.  Is she going to push Osborne out when she comes in with Osborne a junior?  What does Londynn Jones, another top guard going to UCLA who is a point, think of this?  They all can't play the point, as pointed out above, and playing the point is key to getting a better shot at the WNBA, all that stuff.  Close has done better getting her talent to be a cohesive and winning team in the past few years than she used to but still and all, she is what I think of as a prime example of a decent coach but not a great one, whose teams have generally not played up to the talent level.  She had the WNBA rookie of the year for this year on her team, plus Canada, who is in the WNBA, etc., and not all that much to show for it.  Maybe Rice takes them to the next level?  Is she that good?  

I hope Nivar sees plenty of playing time and says yes.

Yeah, it's too bad we can't recruit quality cards.  the second-rate guards we had last year did help us win a natty though

There's a difference between elite HS senior recruit point guards and four-years-older, high-quality COLLEGE senior point guards.  Fortunately, we have been able to develop a few of the latter over the years, but, frankly, our inability over the past ~10 [15? 20?] years to recruit the former is sort of an elephant in the room, even if folks don't want to discuss it.

I'm slightly consoled, though, by the fact that Close almost always manages to figure out some way to lose to us, regardless of her talent.  Hope that trend continues.