@@josephpullaro3159 That was a stretch, she was clearly the best player at McDonald’s All American game. but i guess they wanted to give Sarah some shine as well...
Joyce Edwards already has a WNBA body, and she hasn't even played a day of college basketball yet. What the Gamecocks are gonna have down in Columbia this season ain't even fair.
Joyce has been the MVP of all these all-star games, yet ESPN ranked her 3. Sarah Strong should be re ranked to 10 & Joyce 1. Jazzy Davidson & Zakiyah Johnson are SC leans.
Y’all are haters lmao. Sarah was ranked 1 way before she committed to UConn. She’s just on a minute’s restriction due to a late season injury. Just finding reasons to hate since she’s going to UConn. Also the high school season has been over. There’s no more ranking. Y’all can uplift Joyce without trashing Sarah. The same fans chanting “we want Sarah”. The jokes write themselves
@@bennybenson5 Sarah is weak and injury prone which fits Uconn perfectly. She will be another Azzi Dud, straight garbage. On the other hand, MVP Joyce will terminate all the competition while SC goes back to back to back. Suck it chump.
It seems every 3-4 years, South Carolina has a local (state) player who is really elite. I attribute this to these girls growing up and watching Dawn Staley's teams. I wonder if Dawn was not the coach if the talent in SC would be as deep. I bet not. It's an interesting phenomenon.
That’s a fair statement. But women’s basketball in South Carolina has always been decent. Ivory Latta is probably the last great one in SC that went elsewhere. Sarah Strong’s mom Allison Feaster got away as well as Teresa Jeter who went to Tennessee for 2 years. But the midlands area around Columbia has had an explosion of women ballers in the last 10 to 15 years. Alaina Coates, Aja, Ashlyn Watkins, Fulwiley, and now Joyce.
I have to call bs on the minutes restriction claim I am seeing in the chat. That’s nothing but a theory. Yes. Strong did not play in the Jordan brand classic as a precaution. But that was months ago. She participated in summer session at UConn. And Geno mentioned nothing about a problem. She was participating in everything. And according to Geno is even better than they thought. They were winning games at this tournament by 100 points. It doesn’t make sense for her to even go if she needs to be on a minutes restriction. Not buying it.
You're right that based on the minutes she played there wasn't really a restriction but Geno did say that he asked the USA coaches to not play her as much.
The amount of hate for Sarah is crazy to me. Sure, Joyce showed out. But Sarah was amazing as well! Plus adding to all of that. The competition was soooo easy. Obviously, a post player is going to demolish other teams who might not even have a player over 6 feet. I feel like no one these days are able to enjoy multiple players from different teams and they have to find someone to hate on. Joyce is going to pop off and be great at South Carolina and Sarah is going to be amazing for UConn. Please stop acting like both can't happen people....
Just wait on it….Geno bout to have people eating their words. I trust the coach that has coached the most #1 players. I don’t think he signs a five year extension if he didn’t think strong was a superstar. Sarah’s skillset didn’t fit the style of play this USA team played.
Im definitely a SC fan but Sarah stood out to me right away. That style of play did not play to her strengths. I noticed her high IQ immediately. She also is very unselfish player. All people look at is scoring and that competition was so bad, I could've gotten a couple of buckets. My first words after watching Strong on the court were, "She is the female Magic Johson". If she stays injury free she will be another great Uconn player. She really stood out to me.
Also Bascoe from Canada impressed. She is headed to Villanova. It’s too bad Olsen and Dalce are gone. She will likely be on a bad team. But she should be able to put up big stats as a freshman.
First, been watching basketball for close to 70 years and saying that as far as recent history this is one of the worst coached national teams I have seen in recent memory, undisciplined, sloppy and often just plain chaotic. It took an uber talented team of players to overcome such miserable coaching and win the gold - kudos to them. Next time either Ivey or Fernandez as the head coach. Second without a doubt the best player I saw out (I am a UConn fan so literally no dog in the fight) was clearly Sienna Betts. Her stat line alone was beyond as a whole everyone else’s on the team, then add in her impeccable defense and clearly she is the MVP of the tournament. SMH As far as ranking them one to six - no opinion other than Betts being clearly the best there is out there.
Unfortunately it would be unfair to comment on these players bc I haven’t seen them play. Plus I’m more interested in seeing them play once they are in D1. B2S what’s wrong with criticizing these players if they deserve criticism while playing at the U18 level.
I’ve watched every U18 game and Kayleigh Heckel is not good and she has tendency of ball hogging 5’9 and all she tries to do is drive even tho she get blocked every single time she go up and she keep doing it instead of passing the ball to the Bigs who did way better job
I would like UConn to land Jazzy. I think their class is looking weak otherwise. And I say that even with the assumption that somfai is a lock. Heckel is one to keep an eye on. I don’t think she is Hannah Hidalgo though. I have no idea what kind of college player she will be. And I definitely don’t know if she can make an impact as a freshman.
She’s not good theirs but so much she can do at 5’9 and she loves driving to paint like she’s 6’3 she needs to play a lot more like how Hannah Hidalgo did at 5’6 as a freshman
So far Jazzy doesn't have UConn in her finalists so its not looking to bright. Kelis looks like she could be very Moriah Jefferson like and hopefully Gandy is better than her ranking says.
That's always the excuse, UConn players are injured. Just please, someone please confirm that Strong was injured or not? Fact is, just like Back 2 Sports says, Joyce Edwards was the best player on that court, clutch player, great leader and the MVP. I didn't see ANY play that Strong made throughout the tournament that leads me to believe she's a top 10 recruit. Sorry...
That hasn’t been proven anywhere. And again. If it were true. Then she shouldn’t have gone. Cut the bs. This tournament doesn’t matter and it doesn’t reflect badly on Sarah.
@@go2hvn2008 Never said injured... said very few minutes to play...of course you being pro-SC doesn't make you that credible either.... just argumentative.
@@TheDisruptiveOne When someone writes the #1 recruit should be a #10 and the reason is because she did not get the minutes as the other 5 you cited..it does matter... it means the person is bias and thinking that Stron isn't that good... rather than seeing the facts. Nothing was ever said about inury in my response; that was implied by ones that responded.
Your videos are so weird to me! Your forming opinions on these players who in these game had no competition whatsoever… so of course they all looked good… none of them really did anything exciting for US team.
In this video I was looking at their game Vs Canada. I thought it was even matched competitive game IMO. Thought outlined that team has been put together with limited practice time so expect it to be sloppy. Not sure how this video relates to any of my other video or why they are weird but whatever works. Watch or don't watch my videos. Maybe Q is a better match for what you like. Anyway all the best. Cheers
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Joyce has literally won every MVP award in the all star games, and now the MVP in the U18 a d a Gold Medal!
She was co-MVP with Sarah Strong in the McDonald’s All American game.
@@josephpullaro3159 That was a stretch, she was clearly the best player at McDonald’s All American game. but i guess they wanted to give Sarah some shine as well...
Joyce Edwards already has a WNBA body, and she hasn't even played a day of college basketball yet. What the Gamecocks are gonna have down in Columbia this season ain't even fair.
wnba body is a reach, she has a college ready body.
THANK you for the "flowers" for Joyce! THE REAL #1 2024 RECRUIT!!!
Congratulations to USA on winning Gold🇺🇸 🤠👏🏾! Our South Carolina native / USC Fighting Gamecock, Joyce Edwards is out there balling 😀🐔🤙🏾!
I am just glad that Strong walked away without injury🤞
Me too - that was my fear
Joyce has been the MVP of all these all-star games, yet ESPN ranked her 3. Sarah Strong should be re ranked to 10 & Joyce 1. Jazzy Davidson & Zakiyah Johnson are SC leans.
Right the #1 recruit a #10... could it be because of minutes?... could it be coach has a slight bias against UCONN? Answer yes...
Y’all are haters lmao. Sarah was ranked 1 way before she committed to UConn. She’s just on a minute’s restriction due to a late season injury. Just finding reasons to hate since she’s going to UConn. Also the high school season has been over. There’s no more ranking. Y’all can uplift Joyce without trashing Sarah. The same fans chanting “we want Sarah”. The jokes write themselves
@@MooreCEJrnobody’s bias, Sarah strong didn’t even hardly play in the all star games, they don’t make ranking off of 1 season
@@bennybenson5 Sarah is weak and injury prone which fits Uconn perfectly. She will be another Azzi Dud, straight garbage. On the other hand, MVP Joyce will terminate all the competition while SC goes back to back to back. Suck it chump.
I hope UConn has a shot at jazzy. She has a lot of potential.
Thankful no one was injured
It seems every 3-4 years, South Carolina has a local (state) player who is really elite. I attribute this to these girls growing up and watching Dawn Staley's teams. I wonder if Dawn was not the coach if the talent in SC would be as deep. I bet not. It's an interesting phenomenon.
That’s a fair statement. But women’s basketball in South Carolina has always been decent. Ivory Latta is probably the last great one in SC that went elsewhere. Sarah Strong’s mom Allison Feaster got away as well as Teresa Jeter who went to Tennessee for 2 years. But the midlands area around Columbia has had an explosion of women ballers in the last 10 to 15 years. Alaina Coates, Aja, Ashlyn Watkins, Fulwiley, and now Joyce.
LAY!!
I have to call bs on the minutes restriction claim I am seeing in the chat. That’s nothing but a theory. Yes. Strong did not play in the Jordan brand classic as a precaution. But that was months ago.
She participated in summer session at UConn. And Geno mentioned nothing about a problem. She was participating in everything. And according to Geno is even better than they thought.
They were winning games at this tournament by 100 points. It doesn’t make sense for her to even go if she needs to be on a minutes restriction. Not buying it.
He even said she was better than he thought
She was averaging the 3rd most minutes per game before they played Canada.....uconn fans are hilarious.
You're right that based on the minutes she played there wasn't really a restriction but Geno did say that he asked the USA coaches to not play her as much.
I haven’t seen that quote from Geno. If true, If she is 100%, he shouldn’t have said that.
It's ok Joyce will dominate UConn next season and their fans will.stll say Sarah is better
The amount of hate for Sarah is crazy to me. Sure, Joyce showed out. But Sarah was amazing as well! Plus adding to all of that. The competition was soooo easy. Obviously, a post player is going to demolish other teams who might not even have a player over 6 feet. I feel like no one these days are able to enjoy multiple players from different teams and they have to find someone to hate on. Joyce is going to pop off and be great at South Carolina and Sarah is going to be amazing for UConn. Please stop acting like both can't happen people....
Just wait on it….Geno bout to have people eating their words. I trust the coach that has coached the most #1 players. I don’t think he signs a five year extension if he didn’t think strong was a superstar. Sarah’s skillset didn’t fit the style of play this USA team played.
@@VecksJanae Yes!!! This!!
@@VecksJanaedid he hire a new strength and conditioning coach?
Im definitely a SC fan but Sarah stood out to me right away. That style of play did not play to her strengths. I noticed her high IQ immediately. She also is very unselfish player. All people look at is scoring and that competition was so bad, I could've gotten a couple of buckets. My first words after watching Strong on the court were, "She is the female Magic Johson". If she stays injury free she will be another great Uconn player. She really stood out to me.
Yes, Sarah stood out against the "easy" teams, but Joyce brought on her talents and leadership with the win over Canada!
Also Bascoe from Canada impressed. She is headed to Villanova. It’s too bad Olsen and Dalce are gone. She will likely be on a bad team. But she should be able to put up big stats as a freshman.
Nice take. I haven't watched the game. I became bored because of all the USA blow outs and totally forgot the Canada game.
First, been watching basketball for close to 70 years and saying that as far as recent history this is one of the worst coached national teams I have seen in recent memory, undisciplined, sloppy and often just plain chaotic.
It took an uber talented team of players to overcome such miserable coaching and win the gold - kudos to them. Next time either Ivey or Fernandez as the head coach.
Second without a doubt the best player I saw out (I am a UConn fan so literally no dog in the fight) was clearly Sienna Betts. Her stat line alone was beyond as a whole everyone else’s on the team, then add in her impeccable defense and clearly she is the MVP of the tournament. SMH
As far as ranking them one to six - no opinion other than Betts being clearly the best there is out there.
Unfortunately it would be unfair to comment on these players bc I haven’t seen them play. Plus I’m more interested in seeing them play once they are in D1. B2S what’s wrong with criticizing these players if they deserve criticism while playing at the U18 level.
I’ve watched every U18 game and Kayleigh Heckel is not good and she has tendency of ball hogging 5’9 and all she tries to do is drive even tho she get blocked every single time she go up and she keep doing it instead of passing the ball to the Bigs who did way better job
I would like UConn to land Jazzy. I think their class is looking weak otherwise. And I say that even with the assumption that somfai is a lock.
Heckel is one to keep an eye on. I don’t think she is Hannah Hidalgo though. I have no idea what kind of college player she will be. And I definitely don’t know if she can make an impact as a freshman.
She’s not good theirs but so much she can do at 5’9 and she loves driving to paint like she’s 6’3 she needs to play a lot more like how Hannah Hidalgo did at 5’6 as a freshman
Go watch heckel against etiwanda instead of forming your opinion off of some weird international basketball tournament. There is a player there.
So far Jazzy doesn't have UConn in her finalists so its not looking to bright. Kelis looks like she could be very Moriah Jefferson like and hopefully Gandy is better than her ranking says.
@@matthewreese3907 i have argued with a couple of people about this. yes. jazzy updated her finalists to include uconn and tennessee.
@@TheDisruptiveOne Didn't know that. Thanks!
You know Sarah Strong was 1 of them with minute restiction
Not going to get the minutes if you are anti-UCONN...
That's always the excuse, UConn players are injured. Just please, someone please confirm that Strong was injured or not? Fact is, just like Back 2 Sports says, Joyce Edwards was the best player on that court, clutch player, great leader and the MVP. I didn't see ANY play that Strong made throughout the tournament that leads me to believe she's a top 10 recruit. Sorry...
That hasn’t been proven anywhere.
And again. If it were true. Then she shouldn’t have gone.
Cut the bs.
This tournament doesn’t matter and it doesn’t reflect badly on Sarah.
@@go2hvn2008 Never said injured... said very few minutes to play...of course you being pro-SC doesn't make you that credible either.... just argumentative.
@@TheDisruptiveOne When someone writes the #1 recruit should be a #10 and the reason is because she did not get the minutes as the other 5 you cited..it does matter... it means the person is bias and thinking that Stron isn't that good... rather than seeing the facts. Nothing was ever said about inury in my response; that was implied by ones that responded.
I think Heckel was better then Lee imo
Did not think either could score efficienty but Heckle defence was worse. So my thought is D up with your 5 best.
@@back2sports mhm I guess, what about Kennedy smith? I don’t know is a she a good defender?
@@Sydney12997 Kennedy Smith got some great steals!
@@go2hvn2008 I’m excited for her and USC. 🙂
@Sydney12997 Kennedy is a very well-rounded player.
THE COACHES PLAYED THE MVP AND NOT THE # 1 player in the USA A SHAME
The MVP IS the #1 recruit - Joyce Edwards.
Strong looks out of shape. She needs to drop some weight.
Your videos are so weird to me! Your forming opinions on these players who in these game had no competition whatsoever… so of course they all looked good… none of them really did anything exciting for US team.
In this video I was looking at their game Vs Canada. I thought it was even matched competitive game IMO. Thought outlined that team has been put together with limited practice time so expect it to be sloppy. Not sure how this video relates to any of my other video or why they are weird but whatever works. Watch or don't watch my videos. Maybe Q is a better match for what you like. Anyway all the best. Cheers
His videos are NOT "weird", he is very unbiased and tells it LIKE IT IS.
I watched the whole thing she comes as advertised easy first Roy’s pick, strong comes as advertised and heckle was another player that surprised me.