Drake

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[yote18]

Dec 6, 2022 11:20:14 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

And as I type that up I realize that Hegge's senior season was Seekamp's redshirt season, so really it's been almost 15 straight years of having one of the top five players in history on the floor.

I’d argue that we have probably another all time great on the team in Larkins. Just needs a little development. So the trend will most likely continue.

[dbyote]

I've often thought that we were witnessing the "golden age" of Coyote Women's basketball for a long time. I hope the future can come anywhere close to that.

[Men's League Waterboy]

Dec 6, 2022 11:30:04 GMT -6 yote18 said:

Dec 6, 2022 11:20:14 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

And as I type that up I realize that Hegge's senior season was Seekamp's redshirt season, so really it's been almost 15 straight years of having one of the top five players in history on the floor.

I’d argue that we have probably another all time great on the team in Larkins. Just needs a little development. So the trend will most likely continue.

She's an excellent player. 

Not sure I'd put top five in program history pressure on her just yet. 

[hoopsmom]

I agree. She definitely has skill, but if we hadn’t had other players on the floor, Liv Korngable would’ve gotten more years of starting, and I think that her skill level is higher, because it’s more versatile. Other players would fall into this category as well, such as Maddie McKeever, Allison Arens, and a few others.

[90yote]

Dec 6, 2022 10:57:53 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

Dec 6, 2022 10:31:58 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

Replacing Hannah Sjerven was always going to be an impossible task. Her physicality on both ends was exceptional for this level of competition.

The remarkable fact about this program is that for the last 10 years it has had at least one, and at times three at the same time, of arguably the five (or six?) greatest Coyote women of all time on the court ... not to mention a bunch of other GREAT, great players. The COVID year screwed us out of one tournament run, but also created the circumstances for the Sweet 16 and put off this day of reckoning for an extra year. But now it's here. And it's going to be fine. It's going to be different and bumpy and there will be a less impressive winning percentage, but the next great ones are learning and developing and working and sitting in high school classrooms.

The standard is set and they are not currently reaching it but they know where it is and they will again.

Full disclosure, I'd go Koupal, Seekamp, Duffy, Sjerven top four and Hegge or Lamb as that fifth starter on an all-time team. 

Ha! This is something my friends and I debate all the time. Who is on the Mount Rushmore for Coyote WBB? I even had a thought THIS morning about putting some time into this and starting a thread. And I thought about specifically looking for your feedback, MLB. I will try to start a thread about this in the next few days with some commentary. Spoiler alert...my top 4 is the same, in that order, though you may have listed them chronologically.

[Men's League Waterboy]

While it is chronological, it is also the order I think I would put them in if we were drafting.

And absolutely no offense to anybody pre-Koupal. My knowledge of those Coyote teams is almost non-existent so I'm not making any claims to a deep pool of knowledge here.  

[yotefan90]

Avila-Ambrosi?

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Dec 6, 2022 19:14:10 GMT -6 yotefan90 said:

Avila-Ambrosi?

Out with an illness (non-covid)

[fightsd]

Ugly basketball. Poor shooting, slow to get back on defense, foul trouble, turning the ball over. Not much to be happy about.

[yote18]

I just checked the score but oof…. Down 25 at half? Buckle up cause drake likes to score this one could get very ugly.

[Men's League Waterboy]

The positive is, I guess, that even great USD teams ever would be in danger of losing to this Drake team.

The negative, I guess, is that this team is 44-19 at the half type far away from being a great team.

[yotenation]

Drake is easily the deeper and more talented team.

Yotes really struggle to score when Larkins isn't scoring.

We really have some issues with interior defense. Demers has nice size but is inexperienced and foul prone. Ugofsky gives effort but she is undersized as a post defender. We really don't have another post defender.

[Men's League Waterboy]

Demers is going to be a beast. I see a universe where she, Larkins and Klosterbuer make a deadly triangle.

[fightsd]

This is giving me 2022 Coyote football vibes. Outmatched and looking disinterested. We are making this drake team look like a final four caliber squad and I don't think they are. Just look lazy out there. Getting beat where hard working teams wouldn't - rebounding, getting blown by on defense, etc. The way the Yotes are playing, the halftime result wouldn't be much different in most SL games.