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hyperetic
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| Posted: 12/18/14 8:34 pm ::: Re: The next phenom |
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6'2 in 9th grade? Likely to grow a couple more? Leaps outa the gym...what's not to like?
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| Posted: 12/18/14 9:39 pm ::: |
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| and the first pick in the 2022 WNBA draft is..... She could end up being 6'6" to 6'8". Maybe the next Griner or Parker??
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| Posted: 12/18/14 11:27 pm ::: |
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| Saw her today ... most girls are pretty much done growing by ninth grade, and presumably DeCosta will stay around 6-0 or 6-1. She's a great leaper, very athletic, and has a feel for the game. Does she have a jumper? Hard to say, and at her height, she'll need one to be great. She can be pretty good without one because she can dunk a volleyball right now.
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| Posted: 12/18/14 11:56 pm ::: |
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| ClayK wrote: |
| Saw her today ... most girls are pretty much done growing by ninth grade, and presumably DeCosta will stay around 6-0 or 6-1. She's a great leaper, very athletic, and has a feel for the game. Does she have a jumper? Hard to say, and at her height, she'll need one to be great. She can be pretty good without one because she can dunk a volleyball right now. |
I know you like to apply convention to everything, but this girl seems pretty unconventional. Born 3 months premature at 4 pounds to parents 5'7 and 5'2. She might have some kind of growth hormone type of thing going on. But I don't think she'll grow as much as toad does... maybe another couple inches. Do you believe even at age 14 they feel the need to exaggerate her height which they listed at 6'2?
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| Posted: 12/19/14 7:28 am ::: |
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| FWIW, you'd typically expect a 14 year old girl to grow another inch or so , at least according to the growth charts I could find (and that's at pretty much every percentile on the chart).
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| Posted: 12/19/14 10:22 am ::: |
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I'm just speaking from experience ... and maybe a girl grows an inch in high school, but seldom do you get any kind of growth spurt. But it could happen: Jayne Appel went from 6-0 in eighth grade to 6-4. A lot of players, though, max out a lot younger.
But give DeCosta another inch, and she's maybe 6-2, and she does not have the body of a power forward who's going to bang on the block. Her leaping ability and athleticism will make her a force there, but she won't be a dominant defender.
Now if she can take that athleticism to the wing, and be a 6-2 three on defense and then work inside on offense, you're talking about an elite player. And if she stays at 6-0 or 6-1, then she pretty much has to be a wing on defense.
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| Posted: 12/19/14 4:58 pm ::: |
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| Too true, as with most athletes they have to learn how to shoot the ball, sadly most don't.
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