Good day, mate! Beavs land verbal commit from Jazz Simmons

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Good day, mate! Beavs land verbal commit from Jazz Simmons May 22, 2017 21:20:08 GMT -8 beavershoopsfan likes this

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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on May 22, 2017 21:20:08 GMT -8

May 17, 2017 13:08:29 GMT -8 411500 said:

On a side note - has anyone heard of her before? Aware of any trip she has made to OSU? Whatever the case, it will be great to learn more about her....

I came across this interesting nugget about Chantel Horvat, a good looking UCLA commit who I believe was a teammate of Jazz Simmons:

Sept. 13, 2016: Horvat considered numerous programs but narrowed her list to UCLA, Washington, Duke and Oregon State. In somewhat of an unusual process, Horvat didn't visit any of them. Horvat gives the Bruins an elite back court performer with proven international experience as well as size at her position. She's a consistent offensive threat off the dribble, has a scorer's mentality and solid fundamentals. She was a member of the Australian U16 team in 2013 and the Australian U19 national team in 2014 and 2015.
(www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/222482/chantel-horvat)

I don't know if Jasmine followed the Horvat process, in which case we wouldn't be aware of any trip she took to OSU.

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Last Edit: May 22, 2017 21:21:03 GMT -8 by 2ndGenBeaver

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Good day, mate! Beavs land verbal commit from Jazz Simmons May 23, 2017 7:23:03 GMT -8 beavershoopsfan likes this

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Post by 411500 on May 23, 2017 7:23:03 GMT -8

Good find 2ndGenBeaver - -Three points in this brief information packet jump out at me.
First, Horvat, who is a top flight recruit, didn't take her free visit to any campus. I don't think that happens very often.
Second, of Horvat's 4 collegiate choices one was the Beavs. That tells me that the staff had inroads, in one form or another, to the Aussie team before they landed Simmons - which make the Simmons Verbal more understandable.
Third, The Aussie National WBB program produces a lot of talent and a good share of it lands in the PAC-12. Stanford has a really good one (memory lapse!) who will be All Pac-12 next year....She hurt the Beavs bad in the Championship game...

Now, see what you can learn about Erin Boley being a Bear !! 😄

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Good day, mate! Beavs land verbal commit from Jazz Simmons May 23, 2017 7:46:44 GMT -8

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Post by beavershoopsfan on May 23, 2017 7:46:44 GMT -8

May 23, 2017 7:23:03 GMT -8 411500 said:

Good find 2ndGenBeaver - -Three points in this brief information packet jump out at me.
First, Horvat, who is a top flight recruit, didn't take her free visit to any campus. I don't think that happens very often.
Second, of Horvat's 4 collegiate choices one was the Beavs. That tells me that the staff had inroads, in one form or another, to the Aussie team before they landed Simmons - which make the Simmons Verbal more understandable.
Third, The Aussie National WBB program produces a lot of talent and a good share of it lands in the PAC-12. Stanford has a really good one (memory lapse!) who will be All Pac-12 next year....She hurt the Beavs bad in the Championship game...

Now, see what you can learn about Erin Boley being a Bear !! 😄

Must be referring to 6'3" Aussie Alanna Smith. Smith came off the Stanford bench to provide some much-needed scoring in a very low-scoring PAC-12 championship game against the Beavs in March.

Sources in the know have confirmed that Jazz Simmons was on campus this year to take an official visit in Corvallis. She knows what Corvallis is like in the spring.

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Good day, mate! Beavs land verbal commit from Jazz Simmons May 25, 2017 21:50:57 GMT -8

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Post by beaverstever on May 25, 2017 21:50:57 GMT -8

Wow, I really like her game! What I notice:

- Super intuitive rebounder - understands and gets to the likely rebound location
- Loves to slash and seeks contact at the basket. Going to put a lot of players on the bench with foul trouble
- Really good court vision - gets the extra pass out of her hands quickly (knows where she wants to pass the ball before the pass gets to her)
- Similar intuitiveness on stealing passes

From my orange-tinted glasses, she looks like she will arrive Pac-12 ready and immediately be a top player on our team, as talented as we are.

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Good day, mate! Beavs land verbal commit from Jazz Simmons May 26, 2017 5:32:40 GMT -8

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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 5:32:40 GMT -8

Wow, I really like her game! What I notice:

- Super intuitive rebounder - understands and gets to the likely rebound location
- Loves to slash and seeks contact at the basket. Going to put a lot of players on the bench with foul trouble
- Really good court vision - gets the extra pass out of her hands quickly (knows where she wants to pass the ball before the pass gets to her)
- Similar intuitiveness on stealing passes

From my orange-tinted glasses, she looks like she will arrive Pac-12 ready and immediately be a top player on our team, as talented as we are.

I was really impressed, too. One thing we haven't had in the past is somebody who can regularly slash to the basket and draw a foul, but Jazz can. Excellent height on her jump around the basket. She can run the court with blazing speed -- gets the ball and outruns everybody. An excellent ball-handler and passer and defender. In those FIBA videos she had and injury on her shooting hand, so we can't really judge her outside shooting. I picture her and Slocum feeding the ball to 6'7 and 6'9 and I get woozy.