West Coast Conference player of the week Brynna Maxwell leads the nation in 3FG% by a mile. The perimeter defense in the West Coast Conference suits her.
Whether you sense me smirking with that observation is up to you. Love that kid, one of the purest shooters I’ve seen, but I’m somewhat disappointed in her for not accepting a changed role in Utah.
My favorite NBA Phoenix teams employed Eddie Johnson (Illinois Eddie Johnson, not Auburn Eddie Johnson) like a microwave, and he won the 1989 NBA Sixth Man award in that capacity. The microwave shooters can heat up fast, and change the character of a game in an instant. Brynna could’ve done that for Utah, and don’t you think the Utes could’ve used that kind of spark in Colorado.
Then again, I don’t know the whole story. From Gonzaga, her friends and family aren’t so far away, though I’d be more inclined to believe that as an incentive in one’s freshman year. (See: Jorgensen, Jennifer, in 2008 a prized Pacific recruit who went home to Iowa after three minutes of playing time. I called that one. After it took an hour for me to drive from Fullerton to Irvine one night, I thought the incoming Jorgensen would take one look at California freeway traffic, and turn around for cities with one stoplight.) Same goes for the redness of Utah as a reason to return to Washington—.I could buy social climate as an incentive to leave in an underclassman more readily than in a senior.