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Post by hawkeye2000 on Dec 10, 2017 12:58:41 GMT -8
For those who are interested, Tenn. vs Texas is on ESPN2. 3 of the starting 5 are from Oregon. Evina Westbrook,Mercedes Russell and Jaime Nared. Hope coach Ruick schedules a home n home series with them the next two years.
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on Dec 10, 2017 13:41:10 GMT -8
Maybe with Texas, but I would stay away from scheduling Tennessee. They have a remarkable ability to siphon off Oregon HS talent as it is, and giving them the means to dangle the opportunity for Oregon players to play in their home state likely wouldn't help us any.....
Go Beavers!
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Post by hawkeye2000 on Dec 10, 2017 14:53:56 GMT -8
Maybe with Texas, but I would stay away from scheduling Tennessee. They have a remarkable ability to siphon off Oregon HS talent as it is, and giving them the means to dangle the opportunity for Oregon players to play in their home state likely wouldn't help us any..... Go Beavers! Maybe so. Maybe Evina just wanted to get out of Oregon and experience college life somewhere else, I don't know. If Russell was graduating high school this year maybe she would give OSU a closer look then 5 years ago. Rueck is holding his own with the bigger programs now. |
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Post by baseba1111 on Dec 10, 2017 16:45:08 GMT -8
Maybe with Texas, but I would stay away from scheduling Tennessee. They have a remarkable ability to siphon off Oregon HS talent as it is, and giving them the means to dangle the opportunity for Oregon players to play in their home state likely wouldn't help us any..... Go Beavers! Maybe so. Maybe Evina just wanted to get out of Oregon and experience college life somewhere else, I don't know. If Russell was graduating high school this year maybe she would give OSU a closer look then 5 years ago. Rueck is holding his own with the bigger programs now. Just don't be surprised if Westbrook ends up back in Oregon before her career is over. |
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Post by hawkeye2000 on Dec 10, 2017 17:43:04 GMT -8
Maybe so. Maybe Evina just wanted to get out of Oregon and experience college life somewhere else, I don't know. If Russell was graduating high school this year maybe she would give OSU a closer look then 5 years ago. Rueck is holding his own with the bigger programs now. Just don't be surprised if Westbrook ends up back in Oregon before her career is over. You know, that thought has crossed my mind. It amazes me how much transferring is going on these days. I've heard that UCONN is run like a military boot camp. |
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Post by hawkeye2000 on Dec 10, 2017 18:01:56 GMT -8
Nared is the best of the 3 of them, in overall game. There both seniors so won't have to deal with them next year. Go beavers !! |
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Post by believeinthebeavs on Dec 10, 2017 18:36:07 GMT -8
At least we have the girl that shut Westbrook down last year in high school, 2 points in the second half!
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on Dec 10, 2017 19:51:37 GMT -8
At least we have the girl that shut Westbrook down last year in high school, 2 points in the second half! I looked in on some of the guards that got away from us in the same recruiting class: Evina Westbrook is starting at Tennessee, receiving ~27 minutes/game and averaging 8 ppg, 2.7 reb, shooting 43% from the field and 35% from 3pt land. Bendu Yeaney has started 9 games (of the 10 Indiana has played), logging 33 minutes/game, and averaging 7 ppg, 4.3 reb, shooting 33% from the field and 41% from 3pt land. Goodman is not starting, but has averaged ~19 minutes per game in the 8 games she has played in, and is averaging 9.5 points, 1.7 rebounds, shooting 60% from the field and 68% from 3pt land. I'm happy for Yeaney and Westbrook - they have navigated themselves into starting roles and logging major minutes for major schools, though far from Oregon (perhaps what they wanted?). I'm also happy for us and for Aleah - she is contributing, playing at a high level, and is reasonably close to home. Early indications are that we filled our needs and recruited well from the 2017 crop of guards in the state...... Go Beavers! |
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Post by lebaneaver on Dec 10, 2017 23:31:50 GMT -8
In this game in Knoxville, there were over 9,000 fans in the stands. Impressive to a recruit.
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Post by mbabeav on Dec 11, 2017 13:10:15 GMT -8
Reminds me a bit of the Lake Oswego to Stanford pipeline back 10-20 years ago. Oregon grows some great women's hoopsters.
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Post by believeinthebeavs on Dec 11, 2017 17:27:30 GMT -8
Oregon City put out a bunch a while back, at one time top five nationally IIRC. One year they went out and took down the rest of the top five on the road. They dominated the nineties.
And yes, in Oregon there is a long history of producing quality players.
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Post by Werebeaver on Dec 11, 2017 17:51:03 GMT -8
At least we have the girl that shut Westbrook down last year in high school, 2 points in the second half! I looked in on some of the guards that got away from us in the same recruiting class: Evina Westbrook is starting at Tennessee, receiving ~27 minutes/game and averaging 8 ppg, 2.7 reb, shooting 43% from the field and 35% from 3pt land. Bendu Yeaney has started 9 games (of the 10 Indiana has played), logging 33 minutes/game, and averaging 7 ppg, 4.3 reb, shooting 33% from the field and 41% from 3pt land. Goodman is not starting, but has averaged ~19 minutes per game in the 8 games she has played in, and is averaging 9.5 points, 1.7 rebounds, shooting 60% from the field and 68% from 3pt land. I'm happy for Yeaney and Westbrook - they have navigated themselves into starting roles and logging major minutes for major schools, though far from Oregon (perhaps what they wanted?). I'm also happy for us and for Aleah - she is contributing, playing at a high level, and is reasonably close to home. Early indications are that we filled our needs and recruited well from the 2017 crop of guards in the state...... Go Beavers! "reasonably close to home" She couldn't be any closer to home and still play for a power 5 WBB team. Milwaukie OR to Corvallis = 87 miles / 90 minutes. |
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Post by beaversrock on Dec 11, 2017 18:21:17 GMT -8
Actually Aleah is from Canby just commuted to LaSalle. Her family still lives in Canby
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on Dec 11, 2017 21:39:55 GMT -8
And Aleah is obviously quite smart (and/or she talked to KTMac)- Canby/Milwaukee/Salem is far enough away from Corvallis that you can do your own thing with zero parental interference, yet home is close enough to easily make it home on holidays, long weekends, refrigerator raids, laundry runs, and have familiar faces in the stands. She also apparently has a very young baby brother she seems quite fond of.....
You aren't going to get any of that sitting in Terre Haute or Knoxville or wherever the heck Tennessee and Indiana are located. You barely can make it home at all (again, maybe that was part of the attraction). Note Goodman also committed quite early (during a SR summer camp to lock in her spot) since she probably surveyed the state of Oregon guard situation for 2017 and did the math.
If you want any thoughtful/introspective player on the floor, the guard handling the rock is a good place to start.
As I said - indications are that we filled our needs and recruited well from the 2017 crop of guards in the state......and as noted above, will be interesting to see how the next 4+ years play out for Yeaney, Westbrook and Goodman.
Go Beavers!
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Post by believeinthebeavs on Dec 11, 2017 23:16:26 GMT -8
I think her decision had more to do with our team and the atmosphere they create than backing off the *ucks because of their "talent". The teams and their respective schools are so different that the players attracted to one are less likely attracted to the other. In the last year we've had players checking us out and not them and visa versa.
The look at me girls like Inescue and Westbrook, just consider the media circus they turned nli (on the second day after everyone else signed) into. They wouldn't fit into the Rueck system.
I think we will be happy with what Aleah gives us, she may not be the most athletic but she knows how to lead a team and what it takes to win. Rueck gave her the highest compliment when he compared her to Sage Indendi.
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