Draft Day Discussion
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How not to do a mock draft:
http://www.wnba.com/draft2009/asknancy_090408.html
So basically we're choosing January if Indy doesn't. If they do however, we're taking another guard like Starks, Boddie, or Brooks...but not Zellous? That's like saying it should rain today, but if it doesn't it might be sunny, partly cloudy, snowing, or a slight chance of a tsunami. Oh Nancy, you crack me up
http://www.wnba.com/draft2009/asknancy_090408.html
So basically we're choosing January if Indy doesn't. If they do however, we're taking another guard like Starks, Boddie, or Brooks...but not Zellous? That's like saying it should rain today, but if it doesn't it might be sunny, partly cloudy, snowing, or a slight chance of a tsunami. Oh Nancy, you crack me up
Shock get the #18 pick for Ashley Shields....not bad for a player Detroit picked off the waivers lol.
http://www.wnba.com/shock/news/draftdeal_090409.html
http://www.wnba.com/shock/news/draftdeal_090409.html
The Detroit Shock has just made a pre-draft trade with Atlanta: the Shock acquired the 18th overall pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft from the Atlanta Dream in exchange for 5-foot-10 guard Ashley Shields.
Press release:
http://www.wnba.com/shock/news/trade_090409.html
Press release:
http://www.wnba.com/shock/news/trade_090409.html
kara lawson's take on courtney ... pre-draft ...
There a couple of things that Courtney has and that’s great hands and great feet. Great hands – I don’t know if people are born with them or they work on them – but a post player that has great hands, man, you just want to have those players on your team forever. I’ve played with some post players that had great hands. I got a chance to play with Yolanda Griffith, and it spoils you as a perimeter player because you can basically throw a pass anywhere and they’ll get it. That’s a great luxury to have because sometimes you can’t always put it in the perfect spot depending on the pressure you’re getting or the angle you have at that moment or sometimes you just misjudge the pass. Courtney has great hands and great feet. I had a chance to play with her – she’s the only player in this draft that I’ve ever played with through USA Basketball – and she’s a great person to be around, she was a great teammate for us at USA Basketball. I think the output of her great hands is her rebounding because she’s not the greatest jumper, but somehow she gets 14 rebounds every game. She’s one of those players also that gives you a good target, she posts up pretty well and it's easy to get her the basketball, you never have to dribble much to find her or get a perfect angle. For Courtney, obviously her biggest question is her fitness level, that’s no secret. That’s something that she’s going to have to continue to work on and improve. In our league there are a lot of mobile post players, that’s the way our league is going, or is at right now. So she’s going to have to be able to defend post players that can turn and face, that can shoot the three point shot, that can pop on the pick and roll. I think that will be her biggest challenge as she steps up and now all of a sudden you’re not just guarding a player that goes block to block, and not just a player you can sag off when they catch it in the high post to reverse the ball. Now you have to get up and defend them one-on-one from the top of the key. That is going to be the big transition; that and defending the pick and rolls and stepping out. It's just the mobility of the position at our level – and I don’t just say that for Courtney, I’ll say that for all of the posts – I think the biggest transition is defending the mobility and the skills of the post players that are in our league already.
There a couple of things that Courtney has and that’s great hands and great feet. Great hands – I don’t know if people are born with them or they work on them – but a post player that has great hands, man, you just want to have those players on your team forever. I’ve played with some post players that had great hands. I got a chance to play with Yolanda Griffith, and it spoils you as a perimeter player because you can basically throw a pass anywhere and they’ll get it. That’s a great luxury to have because sometimes you can’t always put it in the perfect spot depending on the pressure you’re getting or the angle you have at that moment or sometimes you just misjudge the pass. Courtney has great hands and great feet. I had a chance to play with her – she’s the only player in this draft that I’ve ever played with through USA Basketball – and she’s a great person to be around, she was a great teammate for us at USA Basketball. I think the output of her great hands is her rebounding because she’s not the greatest jumper, but somehow she gets 14 rebounds every game. She’s one of those players also that gives you a good target, she posts up pretty well and it's easy to get her the basketball, you never have to dribble much to find her or get a perfect angle. For Courtney, obviously her biggest question is her fitness level, that’s no secret. That’s something that she’s going to have to continue to work on and improve. In our league there are a lot of mobile post players, that’s the way our league is going, or is at right now. So she’s going to have to be able to defend post players that can turn and face, that can shoot the three point shot, that can pop on the pick and roll. I think that will be her biggest challenge as she steps up and now all of a sudden you’re not just guarding a player that goes block to block, and not just a player you can sag off when they catch it in the high post to reverse the ball. Now you have to get up and defend them one-on-one from the top of the key. That is going to be the big transition; that and defending the pick and rolls and stepping out. It's just the mobility of the position at our level – and I don’t just say that for Courtney, I’ll say that for all of the posts – I think the biggest transition is defending the mobility and the skills of the post players that are in our league already.