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Post by greybeav on May 24, 2024 8:01:01 GMT -8
to put a voice to the face:
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Post by 02beav on May 24, 2024 9:22:22 GMT -8
12 assists to 48 turnovers and 31% from 3 are not exactly great numbers, especially considering the league they’re in. If she starts next to kennedie and AJ, that’s as bad a shooting guard trio as you can have.
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Post by grayman on May 24, 2024 10:44:34 GMT -8
12 assists to 48 turnovers and 31% from 3 are not exactly great numbers, especially considering the league they’re in. If she starts next to kennedie and AJ, that’s as bad a shooting guard trio as you can have. I think Kennedie is fine as an offensive player and will no doubt find it easier going in the WCC as opposed to the Pac-12 as a freshman. Yes, AJ has struggled and I pointed out the lack of offensive production from her quite a bit during the past season. I would hope she will be able to find her footing in the coming season. We've seen many flashes of good offensive play from her in the past couple of years. I would think she will be able to relax a little more and gain some confidence against the WCC opponents. I believe most of the defenders in the WCC will have their hands full with her if she gains that scorer's mentality. |
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Post by finleybandbeav on May 24, 2024 10:51:05 GMT -8
I saw Bolden's troubling A/TO ratio, but numbers are not set in stone forever and SR has coached up many a player. Plus, she can shoot. She must have been injured about a month before the season because she missed a couple of games and normally starts. When she came back, she finished out the season's final four games and only had one game with poor 3pt. shooting: 1-6, the other three were 1-2, 4-8 (the Fordham game), and 3-6. She's also a pretty decent rebounder for a guard - nothing like Mik, but not bad. Plus, remember that she was playing on a bad team, so who knows what the coaching and everything else was like.
The "league they're in" is the Atlantic-10 Conference, of course, which (BTW), last season was in an almost dead heat RPI ranking with the WCC (11th) - the A10 was 12th.
We all know the conference that was No. 1.
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Post by 411500 on May 24, 2024 11:36:05 GMT -8
If Bolden played her h.s. ball in Eugene someone on the board has probably seen her in action as a h.s. player....
Or is that even relevant now?
I can find no info to indicate she was an All-State player - or even highly ranked when she was at Churchill....
Is there a chance the Beavs showed interest in her during the years when we had better players lined up ahead of her?
At any rate, Bolden might be a player, but I can't find much evidence that she is a good one....
I'll gladly take some good news about her if someone has some. Like everyone else on this board, I desperately want Rueck to track down some players.
By which I mean Players.
GO BEAVS!!
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Post by oldbeav on May 24, 2024 11:51:31 GMT -8
Aha, maybe Raegan left because she wanted a car…jk
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Post by grayman on May 24, 2024 11:52:07 GMT -8
No big surprise but I'm pretty sure these players have all been on Rueck's radar at some point.
While he's not going to build what we have come to know as a Pac-12 Oregon State roster, I believe the end result is going to be closer to a power conference level roster than most of what you see in the WCC.
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Post by grayman on May 24, 2024 11:53:32 GMT -8
Aha, maybe Raegan left because she wanted a car…jk I know you're joking around but the Beavers got car access this past season. I assume the deal is pretty similar. |
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Post by greybeav on May 24, 2024 11:56:29 GMT -8
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Post by fridaynightlights on May 24, 2024 11:57:20 GMT -8
The fact that she was apparently the number 2 JC is largely irrelevant now. She wasn't good enough to play consistently for a very good Baylor team. Hopefully she is good enough to be a contributor at the WCC level. When teams recruit the portal, they probably have a ranking of the best players available and reach out to see who is interested in their program. They keep going down the list until you find players who are interested. I am guessing the OSU staff probably had to go pretty far down the list before they found players who were interested. I don't know that much about wbb in the WCC, but considering the circumstances I would be happy with .500 record in conference next season. I don't think finishing above .500 in the WCC is going to be a difficult goal for OSU to reach at all. I doubt that the team Rueck has/is putting together will be worse than any team in the conference except possibly (probably) Gonzaga. Not at all worried about most of the rest. Along the same lines, IMO getting that 8.6 minutes a game or whatever it was at Baylor is better than quite a few WCC players are capable of doing. The Beavers will win plenty of games. You might be right. It is all speculation at this point. No one knows for sure, not even you. |
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Post by grayman on May 24, 2024 12:08:00 GMT -8
I don't think finishing above .500 in the WCC is going to be a difficult goal for OSU to reach at all. I doubt that the team Rueck has/is putting together will be worse than any team in the conference except possibly (probably) Gonzaga. Not at all worried about most of the rest. Along the same lines, IMO getting that 8.6 minutes a game or whatever it was at Baylor is better than quite a few WCC players are capable of doing. The Beavers will win plenty of games. You might be right. It is all speculation at this point. No one knows for sure, not even you. True. But I'm making an educated guess as I see it based on Rueck's ability to recruit and coach at a high level and knowledge of the talent level prevalent in the WCC. It's definitely not a shot in the dark. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 24, 2024 14:13:59 GMT -8
Ellie Mack came from the Patriot League, which is about as low RPI-wise as you can get. Good players are good players (BTW, Ellie's coach at Bucknell changed jobs after she left and won the A-10's regular-season and tournament championship this year).
Yes, we are in a bit of a pickle as far as obtaining players for next season, but I'm sure Rueck would not offered Bolden a scholarship if he thought she couldn't play.
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Post by bennyskid on May 24, 2024 14:58:57 GMT -8
I'm going to make the educated guess that these gals were scouted thoroughly by Scott out of HS (or at least, JuCo). So I don't think he's flying blind or is scraping the bottom of the barrel. He's taking players who fit his philosophy and who he has been able to evaluate properly. They may not be as good as the 5-star recruits that they are replacing, but I expect all three will fit in and contribute, and kick ass in the WCC.
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Post by finleybandbeav on May 24, 2024 17:31:58 GMT -8
Um...maybe a couple of you guys need to go back and read my post from a few hours ago.
I did see Bolden play, less than three months ago. I was in the first row and saw all 31 minutes that she spent on the floor, skewering the opponent on their home court.
Trust me - she's a player. A clutch-type player, with the ability to hit the right shot at a critical time - something that doesn't show up on a generic stat sheet.
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Post by treasurevalleybeav on May 24, 2024 19:11:52 GMT -8
Over and over I keep getting reminders of what a small world it is that we live in. I was at Tiara Bolden's last regular season game at Fordham University in the Bronx on March 2 - one of a whopping 422 fans present. Her La Salle team had just gone through an awful season, but they had enough left at the end to beat a rebuilding Fordham team by ten on the road, on Fordham's Senior Day no less. Bolden was, without a doubt, one of the two best players on the floor for either team. 25 points, 8 rebounds, 4 of 8 from 3. Every time Fordham tried to mount a comeback, she or her teammate Melious would pop another 3 (Melious was an unconscious 8 for 10). Bolden is an exciting player to watch, and I'm very excited that she is now a Beav. I'm also very happy that the Fordham Rams (my favorite eastern underdog team) don't have to deal with her anymore. Things are really coming together. Go Beavs! Was that at the oldest on campus gym? I was thinking I once read that about Fordham’s home court |
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