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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 04/10/15 2:24 pm ::: Who will be ESPN's Three to See next season? |
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You can answer by guessing whom ESPN will choose or by stating whom you would choose.
This past season, ESPN might have generated more interest in the sport overall if it had been Amanda Zahui B, Kelsey Plum and Blake Dietrick. |
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 04/10/15 2:30 pm ::: |
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Stewart Jefferson DeShields.
If it's more than 3, Wilson will be next in line.
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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 04/10/15 4:34 pm ::: |
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No other nominations?
3-2-C is the most prestigious and touted award in all of women's basketball. It's media mention dwarfs that of the Wade, Naismith and Wooden combined.
I'd say only Stewart is a lock.
Candidates other than Art's might include:
Tiffany Mitchell, Kelsey Mitchell, Brianna Turner, Nina Davis, Lexie Brown, Jonquel Jones, Kelsey Plum, Aerial Powers, Courtney Williams, Niya Johnnson, Bria Holmes, Aliyyah Handford, Ruth Hamblin, Kaela Davis, Allisha Gray, Adut Bulgak, Leticia Romero, Danielle Ballard, Jillian Alleyne, Morgan Tuck, Jasmine Nwajei, Katie Lou Samuelson. |
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PUmatty
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Posted: 04/10/15 4:38 pm ::: |
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For a promotion like this to work, it should feature three players who play for different teams and who are seniors (that way you can promote more games and carry on the promotion into the WNBA). They should also be "flashy" in some way - a player that you want to see, not just one who is good but doesn't stand out from other good players. That is what made Griner, DelleDonne, and Diggins such a good combo.
Stewart is an obvious answer. Perhaps Mitchell. After that, maybe Banham?
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linkster
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Posted: 04/10/15 4:44 pm ::: |
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I don't think they'll limit it to 3.
DeShields is a guarantee. The SEC Network demands stars. Diamond, Mitchell and Wilson are locks for attention due to their conference affiliation. Then add Turner, Stewart, Jefferson and Tuck. And the other Mitchell. That makes eight
The UConn trio are in need of a nickname. How about the 3 Husketeers?.
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pwhite66
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Posted: 04/10/15 5:03 pm ::: |
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I don't think they'll limit it to 3.
DeShields is a guarantee. The SEC Network demands stars. Diamond, Mitchell and Wilson are locks for attention due to their conference affiliation. Then add Turner, Stewart, Jefferson and Tuck. And the other Mitchell. That makes eight
The UConn trio are in need of a nickname. How about the 3 Husketeers?. |
I agree that ESPN won't box itself in on three each year, and that the network will be all over the charismatic (enigmatic?) DeShields.
Eight seems like a lot, though.
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Queenie
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Posted: 04/10/15 6:05 pm ::: |
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They've already thought outside the 3 barrier with this year's "Need to Know".
Knowing ESPN, I'm going with Geno, Stewart, and DeShields.
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Jlcarter
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Posted: 04/10/15 6:18 pm ::: |
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Mercedes Russell.
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GlennMacGrady
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Posted: 04/10/15 9:25 pm ::: |
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ESPN would be better served with more than three players, no two from the same school, and several conferences included. This will allow viewers to see the hyped stars in more games.
The Magnificent Seven:
Breanna Stewart - AAC
Kelsey Mitchell - B10
Diamond DeShields - SEC
Tiffany Mitchell - SEC
Brianna Turner - ACC
Nina Davis - B12
Kelsey Plum - P12
The problem with this multi-conference theory is that ESPN may not broadcast some of the conferences such as B10 and P12. |
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hyperetic
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Posted: 04/10/15 10:51 pm ::: |
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Is this gonna new a thing now, a Three to See each new season? |
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SpaceJunkie
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Posted: 04/10/15 11:41 pm ::: |
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Queenie wrote: |
They've already thought outside the 3 barrier with this year's "Need to Know".
Knowing ESPN, I'm going with Geno, Stewart, and DeShields. |
The year before this last one they only had a "Need To Know":
Ogwumike, Sims, McBride, Thomas, Stewart (McBride replacing KML when she was out for much of the season).
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cthskzfn
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LegoMyEggo
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Posted: 04/11/15 8:37 am ::: |
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Diamond DeShields is a guarantee. I was actually irritated this year when they did a whole feature on her and she wasn't even playing this season. It'd be fine if it wasn't at the expense of other players who were playing and had stories of their own. Not to mention, I'm just not big on quitters.
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pilight
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Posted: 04/11/15 10:19 am ::: |
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They'll do Deshields because her father played a "real" sport, which gives them the opportunity to talk about something other than WCBB.
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summertime blues
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Posted: 04/11/15 10:55 am ::: |
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LegoMyEggo wrote: |
Diamond DeShields is a guarantee. I was actually irritated this year when they did a whole feature on her and she wasn't even playing this season. It'd be fine if it wasn't at the expense of other players who were playing and had stories of their own. Not to mention, I'm just not big on quitters. |
You sound like a bitter UNC fan. Since when does transferring make a person a "quitter"? Transferring is a fairly commonplace occurrence, and it's done for a lot of reasons. If a person isn't happy someplace it is her right to transfer. It doesn't make her a quitter, it makes her a transfer.
That said, I wish ESPN had left her alone this season and let her go about her business, which was getting healthy, practicing, and studying (she's a pretty good student, by all reports)--and I'm a Tennessee fan! I'm optimistic about her contribution next year, but I also don't expect her to be a miracle worker. However, she (and the LV fans) could do without the opprobrium from the Diamond-haters who I think characterize her somewhat unfairly based on one season playing for a certain coach whose coaching style comes in for a good bit of criticism.
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TheLoneGranger
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Posted: 04/11/15 11:43 am ::: Re: Who will be ESPN's Three to See next season? |
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GlennMacGrady wrote: |
You can answer by guessing whom ESPN will choose or by stating whom you would choose. This past season, ESPN might have generated more interest in the sport overall if it had been Amanda Zahui B, Kelsey Plum and Blake Dietrick. |
Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, Diamond DeShields
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PUmatty
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Posted: 04/11/15 11:46 am ::: Re: Who will be ESPN's Three to See next season? |
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TheLoneGranger wrote: |
GlennMacGrady wrote: |
You can answer by guessing whom ESPN will choose or by stating whom you would choose. This past season, ESPN might have generated more interest in the sport overall if it had been Amanda Zahui B, Kelsey Plum and Blake Dietrick. |
Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, Diamond DeShields |
A'ja Wilson? South Carolina has a returning first team AA player, it and isn't Wilson.
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pilight
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Posted: 04/11/15 11:49 am ::: Re: Who will be ESPN's Three to See next season? |
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PUmatty wrote: |
TheLoneGranger wrote: |
GlennMacGrady wrote: |
You can answer by guessing whom ESPN will choose or by stating whom you would choose. This past season, ESPN might have generated more interest in the sport overall if it had been Amanda Zahui B, Kelsey Plum and Blake Dietrick. |
Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson, Diamond DeShields |
A'ja Wilson? South Carolina has a returning first team AA player, it and isn't Wilson. |
You have a point. Why wouldn't the three to see be the three returning 1st team AAs?
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summertime blues
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ArtBest23
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Posted: 04/11/15 3:03 pm ::: Re: Who will be ESPN's Three to See next season? |
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pilight wrote: |
You have a point. Why wouldn't the three to see be the three returning 1st team AAs? |
Because that's not who ESPN has invested considerable time and expense in promoting.
Two UConn players - Stewart and Jefferson - plus Deshields is still my prediction. 4th in line would be "sorry Tiffany but we're pushing A'Ja".
Mitchell and Mitchell and Davis et al will all be in the "and here's some other names it might be worth checking out" pool.
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cthskzfn
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Posted: 04/11/15 7:30 pm ::: |
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I pray all three are Fighting Irish.
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Fighting Artichoke
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Posted: 04/11/15 10:47 pm ::: |
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cthskzfn wrote: |
I pray all three are Fighting Irish. |
I have no idea why you would want that, but regardless, your prayer will not be answered. Notre Dame will not have a representative in the preseason "_____-to-see" list. But maybe by the midpoint of the season...
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Nixtreefan
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Posted: 04/12/15 10:53 am ::: |
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C'mon that was a good one. And who cares ultimately, it's just like the rankings at the beginning of the year and we all know they are gospel.
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