Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Prospect Watch

I went out and caught the showdown between Meadowdale and Jackson and Eryn Jones and Kristi Kingma.

One word on Kristi Kingma, WOW!

Her oft-mentioned pull-up is pretty (and she'll pull up on a dime). She hit a couple defenders with a crossover that left them grasping at air. She showed off a decent outside shot. The thing that impressed me most was her quickness. Early in the game she picked off a pass and in the blink of an eye was off to the races for lay-in. Give the kid a hint of daylight and she'll take it to the basket and either finish, get fouled, or drop the pull-up on you.

The other thing that was pretty impressive was that despite scoring 32 points she wasn't playing a me-first game. On numerous occasions she drove in and a soon as she felt the double team coming quickly found the open team-mate for an easy lay-in.

Kristi also showed some great court vision by hitting a team-mate with a length of the court pass for easy deuces on the break.

With Lay and Williams and the now Fab 5 (Argens, Bennett, McCormack, Morton & Redmon) instead of Super6 plus Mo, Sami, Laura, Heidi, Michelle and Dom, things are looking quite good for the 08-09 Huskies.