November 7, 2022 

Who’s Next — The Next’s 2023 WNBA Draft Board, V1.0

The most detailed 2023 WNBA draft resource available outside a team's actual war room

Welcome to The Next’s preseason draft board, the most detailed 2023 WNBA draft resource available outside a team’s actual war room. We have roles and scouting reports, including players’ strengths and weaknesses, to get a sense of where this year’s prospects stand heading into their final collegiate seasons.

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Tiering off prospects is important, so we’re bringing back the baseball approach: “future value,” on a scale of 20-80. These numbers translate to: 30 — reserve; 40 — bench; 50 — average rotation player; 60 — All-Star caliber; 70 — All-WNBA caliber; 80 — MVP candidate. Having a 45 FV is nothing to scoff at — an average outcome as an average player is real good, given what a crapshoot most of the draft is.

Players’ tiers say nothing about their ceilings or floors, just what I think their average outcome is likely to be.

Some notes before we get to the list:

  • The board is as long as there are players that I’d be willing to give solid minutes to, if I were a WNBA general manager. You may be wondering where some notable names are that show up in others’ mock drafts; that is why.
  • I like players with clearly definable roles. Players who do a lot of things fairly well are a lot harder to give minutes to than ones who are great at a handful of things.
  • Positions listed aren’t what they play right now, but what I expect them to play in the pros. For example: Celeste Taylor plays combo guard for Duke, but since I don’t see much playmaking translating to the next level, I have her as an off-ball guard in the W.
  • This class is better than I’ve recently given it credit for, but it’s still a noticeable drop-off from last year: Our final 2022 board had five players at least 45 FV and 18 players at least 35 FV; this year, I’ve got two at least 45 FV and only 10 players above a 30 grade.

So without further ado:

(Offensive and defensive roles are per Basketball Index)

70+ FV

1. Aliyah Boston, center, South Carolina

Age: 21

Height: 6’5

Wingspan: 6’9.5

Offensive role: Post scorer

Defensive role: Anchor big

Strengths:

  • Excellent at feeling out defensive weak points both posting-up and facing-up
  • Absurd finishing ability
  • Excellent patience — game moves slowly for her
  • Extremely adaptive scoring — adjusts quickly to defensive tendencies during games
  • Elite footwork in… well, in everything
  • Unstoppable motor
  • Aggressive rebounder (in a good way) — fights in space, extraordinarily strong hands
  • Very good screener on handoffs
  • Extremely fluid out of the triple threat
  • Smooth midrange catch-and-shoot jumper, even off movement
  • Consistent form on 3-pointer
  • Good high-low passer
  • Absurd scoring potential — has flashed driving from the perimeter, a side-step jumper off the dribble, every post move in the book
  • Youngest player in the class

Weaknesses:

  • Poor driving from the perimeter due to needing to take too many steps to make up for poor burst and inability to drive through defenders
  • Can struggle with blindside double-teams
  • Defenses still don’t respect her spacing
  • Stiff 3-point form, with little lower-body effort
  • Not used as a pick-n-roll (PnR) big much
  • Not the tightest handle in the world

45 FV

2. Haley Jones, big wing, Stanford

Age: 21

Height: 6’1

Offensive role: Secondary ball-handler

Defensive role: Helper/wing stopper

Strengths:

  • Elite passing ability, excellent two-player-game and open-court playmaker
  • Provides very good backline help defense
  • Closes out space quickly and contests vertically without fouling, even after getting beaten
  • Excellent flipping hips to stay in front of drivers or switch help assignments
  • Reads defenses well to find weak points
  • Flashes excellent body control, footwork, and finishing on contested drives
  • Excellent help on off-ball screens
  • Decent hedging
  • Very-good-but-inconsistent finisher
  • Adjusts speeds well off the dribble
  • Able to hit 3-pointers in rhythm
  • Good defending under ball screens
  • Pretty good off-ball movement
  • Very good good up-and-under, nice spin move
  • May be a good screener
  • Finishes through contact

Weaknesses:

  • Very inconsistent rhythm, accuracy on pull-up jumpers because her shoulders don’t square to the basket
  • Poor establishing post position
  • Can’t beat anyone off the dribble, and can’t drive downhill through defenders
  • Poor preventing post position against good post threats
  • Can get caught defending over ball screens
  • Rarely appears to recognize and attack mismatches
  • Can overhelp on hedges, leaving her assignment open while she recovers
  • Only real move is a crossover, and she doesn’t sell it well, and doesn’t use her spin move often
  • Somewhat loose handle
  • Limited reps in full halfcourt playmaking
  • Feet are strangely close together on 3-point jumper, may limit her ability to use lower-body strength

40+ FV

3. Diamond Miller, wing, Maryland

Age: 22

Height: 6’2

Offensive role: Utility wing

Defensive role: ?

Strengths:

  • Great burst, lateral quickness when her footwork at the point of attack is coordinated
  • Great spot-up shooter and driver off the catch when her footwork at the point of attack is coordinated
  • Excellent contesting shots, both in her own assignment and when teammates have been beaten
  • Decent feel for driving, pretty good at turning the corner off the dribble
  • Good, very athletic finisher
  • Very good passing ability, good open-court passer
  • Extremely active in transition offense, always running up the court
  • Capable of crossover/stepback threes
  • Very consistent jumper form despite… unconventional… upper-body mechanics, very good footwork into pull-up
  • Decent staying in front of drivers at the point of attack
  • Decent perimeter movement
  • Length, athleticism make her defense somewhat projectible
  • Lingering right knee injury hampered much of her 2021-22

Weaknesses:

  • Footwork off the catch is often uncoordinated, preventing her from getting downhill effectively or launching spot-up shots in rhythm
  • Does not provide much help defense
  • Flat-footed defending in space and closing out
  • Mediocre at reading and adjusting to paint defense while driving
  • Can get caught over ball screens
  • Strongly favors right hand overall, doesn’t finish with her left hand
  • Poor hedging
  • Catch-and-shoot jumper form is a bit long, may limit volume (though her length could offset this concern)
  • Stiff dribble
  • Has not been an impactful rebounder
  • Footwork problems likely limit how much her defense and spot-up offense can improve

4. Jacy Sheldon, off-ball guard, Ohio State

Age: 22

Height: 5’10

Offensive role: Slasher

Defensive role: Low activity/helper

Strengths:

  • Elite rim pressure, finishing
  • Excellent offensive feel — picks her spots and shots very well
  • Elite burst and lateral quickness, mystifying leg strength
  • Very good perimeter off-ball movement
  • Smooth catch-and-shoot motion, strong and stable pull-up form
  • Great feel for defensive off-ball spacing, help defense (tagging, sinking, stunting, splitting), and closing out
  • Great passing ability, especially to rollers and cutters
  • Very good handle
  • Pretty good playmaker in the two-player game
  • Significant all-around improvement in game since sophomore year
  • Help instincts and physical tools make for highly projectable defense

Weaknesses:

  • Terrible ball screen awareness
  • Often out of position after providing help defense
  • Poor navigating both over and under ball screens
  • Mediocre at keeping her hips in front of drivers
  • Catch-and-shoot form features a pronounced dip, makes her shot too long to project for high-volume spot-up shooting
  • Strongly prefers using her right hand

5. Charisma Osborne, point guard, UCLA

Age: 21

Height: 5’9

Offensive role: Secondary ball-handler

Defensive role: Point of attack

Strengths:

  • Great burst, excellent lateral quickness
  • Insanely high defensive motor
  • Smooth, consistent jumper both off the dribble and off the catch
  • Pull-up range out to 26 feet
  • Very good handle — great crossover, good hesi, manipulates defenders by changing driving speeds, very good pump fake
  • Very good getting downhill and turning the corner on defenders
  • Great at drawing help and finding open teammates
  • Very good sticking with ball-handlers over ball screens
  • Great feel for shot timing
  • Good off-ball movement
  • Very good at rotating and switching on the fly
  • Active communicator on defense

Weaknesses:

  • Mediocre finisher
  • Struggles to efficiently hit midrange shots (though her volume of middys is not a concern)
  • Limited reps as an on-ball defender

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35+ FV

6. Rickea Jackson, big wing, Tennessee (Mississippi State transfer)

Age: 22

Height: 6’2

Offensive role: Shot-creator

Defensive role: Helper

Strengths:

  • Consistent upper-body mechanics on jumpers that lead to a quick rise, compact release, and high release point
  • Jumper is very accurate both off the dribble and off the catch when her shoulders stay square to the basket
  • Great handle and on-ball footwork for a forward
  • Excellent body control and footwork when driving and finishing at the basket
  • Very strong finishing through contact
  • Excellent lateral quickness, side-shuffles defensively to stay in front of drivers extremely well
  • Excellent burst on the ball, and can stop on a dime
  • Great instincts for paint help defense
  • Good at preventing post position to opposing bigs
  • Very good footwork in post defense

Weaknesses:

  • Lower-body jumper form is inconsistent — shoulders often keep leaning forward as she shoots, hurting her accuracy
  • Can leave defensive assignment a bit open by ball-watching
  • Catch-and-shoot jumper takes a beat for her to load up and get comfortable
  • Not used as a screener much
  • Toxic environment in Starkville, Miss. appears to have stunted her development on the court

7. Aijha Blackwell, combo forward, Baylor (Mizzou transfer)

Age: 22

Height: 6’0

Offensive role: Athletic finisher/roll & cut big (depends on role at Baylor)

Defensive role: Wing stopper

Strengths:

  • Very good feel — processes defenses quickly, sees and hits cutters well, extremely intelligent decision-maker
  • Excellent lateral quickness and very agile, light feet anywhere she defends
  • Flashes serious ability to drive and finish when her footwork off the catch is well-coordinated, decent handle
  • Very good finisher overall
  • Plays through contact
  • Excellent hands — able to defend in iso while still swiping at the ball, and causes a lot of deflections
  • Good in drop and closes out space efficiently, capable of hedging and switching
  • Good fighting over screens
  • Good footwork in post defense, pretty good preventing post position
  • Defends finishes with verticality
  • Smooth, simple spot-up form from three
  • Able to both chase off the ball and track the primary offensive action
  • Very good passing ability for a forward
  • Can run 4-5 PnRs
  • Good burst
  • Decent screener
  • Very good rebounder
  • Attending The Nicki Collen Finishing School for Unpolished Bigs

Weaknesses:

  • 3-point shot isn’t particularly quick
  • Stiff pull-up form, appears to not use lower-body strength much
  • Inconsistent footwork driving off the catch
  • Mediocre establishing post position
  • Mediocre off-ball movement, both on the perimeter and in the paint
  • Limited catch-and-shoot volume
  • Mediocre at ensuring her assignment is boxed-out on rebounds
  • A developmental project, even by usual prospect standards

8. Shaylee Gonzales, point guard, Texas (BYU transfer)

Age: 22

Height: 5’10

Offensive role: Secondary ball-handler

Defensive role: Helper

Strengths:

  • Good handle — behind-the-back, spin, hesi, pump fake — and great ball control
  • Combination of quality handle and excellent body control make her a very good driver and excellent finisher who’s comfortable using either hang
  • Good burst, excellent lateral quickness
  • Smooth, one-motion catch-and-shoot jumper
  • Jumper form is very stable, even on movement shots
  • Very good awareness of help assignments and rotations in off-ball defense
  • Good firing under screens in on-ball defense
  • Very good entry and two-player-game passer

Weaknesses:

  • 3-point attempt rate and accuracy have both decreased each season, despite tough-shot-making ability
  • Limited reps as an on-ball defender
  • Can get caught behind ball screens when trying to chase over
  • Needs to develop the ability to change speeds while driving

9. Dyaisha Fair, point guard, Syracuse (Buffalo transfer)

Age: 21

Height: 5’5

Offensive role: Primary ball-handler

Defensive role: Low activity

Strengths:

  • Elite burst, lateral quickness
  • Gets downhill extraordinarily well and with frequency
  • Excellent jumper from every level, both off the dribble and off the catch, including beyond WNBA 3-point distance
  • Elite handle — great hesi, hang dribble, inside-out move
  • Excellent court-mapping, playmaking, and passing ability
  • Excellent rotating and stunting on the fly
  • Very good using ball screens
  • Excellent off-ball movement when not conserving energy, quickly relocates behind the arc after passing
  • Decent positioning for help defense
  • Good zone defender — rotates, funnels, shrinks or expands her zone very well

Weaknesses:

  • Well-positioned help defense can take away her driving game, and if not, she may be a little too eager to drive into paint defenders for her own good
  • Can tend to make kick-out passes a step too soon, allowing help defenders to close out to shooters
  • Easily taken off the dribble at the point of attack
  • Closes out flat-footed
  • Never plays man defense
  • 5’5

35 FV

10. Jordan Horston, big wing, Tennessee

Age: 22

Height: 6’2

Offensive role: Athletic finisher

Defensive role: Wing stopper

Strengths:

  • Excellent defensive playmaker
  • Excellent ball pressure, very good at disrupting passing lanes
  • Very good rebounder
  • Excellent passing ability
  • Very good floater
  • Good using ball screens

Weaknesses:

  • Extremely poor shot-selection — takes a lot of contested shots, especially off the dribble and in the midrange
  • Frequently takes shots she isn’t very good at
  • Mediocre passing decision-making — often attempts to pass through windows that don’t exist
  • Poor footwork defending at the point of attack, allowing quick guards to beat her off the dribble
  • Never uses her left hand

30 FV

11. Celeste Taylor, off-ball guard, Duke

Age: 21

Height: 5’11

Offensive role: Slasher

Defensive role: Point of attack

Strengths:

  • Extremely smooth pull-up middy
  • Smooth catch-and-shoot 3-point form that improved during 2021-22
  • Very good burst and lateral quickness on both ends, able to stay in front of drivers quite well
  • Very good chasing ball-handlers over ball screens
  • Very good instincts and positioning for help defense
  • Uses ball screens well off the dribble, both running off of them and running defenders into them
  • Decent halfcourt facilitating — sees open teammates on cuts, rotations, and dump-offs, and is very smart about whether to pass or get her own shot
  • Active communicator on defense
  • Able to both chase off the ball and track the primary offensive action
  • Quickly relocates behind the arc after passing
  • Decent off-ball movement
  • Very good rebounder for a guard
  • Insane motor

Weaknesses:

  • Struggles to drive all the way to the rim through defenders
  • Good handle, but can be loose and allow defenders to affect her drives
  • Shoulders appear to be a bit unstable on movement shooting, an issue that may occasionally affect her pull-up middys as well
  • Catch-and-shoot form isn’t as quick as the better shooters in the class

12. Hannah Jump, off-ball guard, Stanford

Age: 22

Height: 6’0

Offensive role: Off-screen shooter

Defensive role: Low activity

Strengths:

  • Incredibly smooth, one-motion catch-and-shoot jumper
  • Perfect spot-up footwork — adjusts foot placement in midair from any action
  • Lightning-quick catching passes and releasing spot-up shots
  • Lightning-quick taking handoffs or ball screens, turning the corner, and pulling up
  • Elite range — career 42.4% 3P% on short-distance 3-pointers, 37.3% from 25+ feet (per CBB Analytics)
  • Pretty good off-ball perimeter movement
  • Decent burst, good lateral quickness — can side-step and hop into shots better than anyone, fast enough and coordinated enough to drive and curl
  • Pretty good defending under ball screens against ball-handlers without good burst
  • Decent positioning and instincts for help defense, good at seeing where help is needed
  • Uses ball screens pretty well
  • Decent entry passer

Weaknesses:

  • Does not know how to go over ball screens, struggles going under against good drivers
  • Extremely jumpy (no pun intended) and stiff hips defensively allows athletic ball-handlers to drive by her
  • Slow to react defensively at the point of attack
  • Horrendous finisher off the dribble
  • Extremely poor boxing-out
  • Does not appear to have any cutting acumen
  • Minutes fluctuated wildly from game to game

13. Maddie Nolan, off-ball guard, Michigan

Age: 22

Height: 5’11

Offensive role: Movement shooter

Defensive role: Helper

Strengths:

  • Lightning-quick, extraordinarily compact 3-point form with elite accuracy and excellent footwork
  • Very good backline help defense — tagging rollers, sinking, rotating on the fly, sliding, handing off assignments
  • Pretty good off-ball movement, finds open space very well
  • Good dribble for an off-ball player
  • Pretty good passing ability for an off-ball player
  • Can stick defensively to mediocre drivers

Weaknesses:

  • Poor on-ball defense — mediocre lateral quickness, fairly flat-footed, doesn’t flip her hips quickly
  • Mediocre closing out on defense
  • Doesn’t really know when to fully lift or sink along the 3-point line

14. Ashley Owusu, point guard, Virginia Tech (Maryland transfer)

Age: 22

Height: 6’0

Offensive role: Primary ball-handler

Defensive role: Low activity/helper (depends on role at Virginia Tech)

Strengths:

  • Elite facilitator, passing ability, and two-player-game playmaker
  • Throws a bullet of a skip pass
  • Very good court-mapping and proprioception
  • Excellent midrange scorer
  • Excellent feel, both for scoring and game-management — takes shots she can make efficiently, and varies offensive tempo based on the defense and gamestate
  • Excellent floater
  • Can take physical mismatches to the rim
  • Excellent footwork off the dribble — midrange stepback, spin move, behind-the-back
  • Great changing speeds and waiting out defensive rotations while driving or running PnRs
  • Good instincts and positioning for help defense
  • Decent rotating on the fly
  • Good burst
  • Knows how to defend mismatches to minimize damage
  • Ankle injury hampered her 2022 tournament games

Weaknesses:

  • Poor defender in space
  • Easily caught behind ball screens in on-ball defense
  • Not much rim pressure
  • Mediocre 3-point shooter with subpar volume
  • Relatively low volume of playmaking compared to other collegiate point guards
  • Can turn the corner while driving downhill, but struggles to actually get past defenders

15. Madi Williams, wing, Oklahoma

Age: 23

Height: 6’0

Offensive role: Shot-creator

Defensive role: Low activity

Strengths:

  • Elite driving ability, rim pressure, finishing
  • Excellent, versatile scorer within 15 feet
  • Upper-body mechanics on spot-up jumpers are among the best in the country
  • Smooth, one-motion catch-and-shoot jumper
  • Finishes through contact
  • Plus rebounder
  • Excellent burst
  • Extremely active in transition offense, always running up the court
  • Excellent hand-eye coordination
  • Extremely fluid athlete

Weaknesses:

  • Provides no help defense
  • Handles and footwork are uncoordinated
  • Inconsistent footwork on spot-up jumpers limits her accuracy
  • Has trouble tracking off-ball assignments without having to face them and away from primary action
  • Often dribbles too far into paint defenses
  • Limited agility — her feet are slow and she doesn’t adjust her hips quickly

25 FV

16. Grace Berger, point guard, Indiana

Age: 23

Height: 6’0

Offensive role: Secondary ball-handler

Defensive role: Point of attack

Strengths:

  • Excellent one-pass-away help defense
  • Excellent at jumping passing lanes and deflecting overhead passes
  • Excellent shot selection — only takes shots she can make efficiently
  • Great defending over screens, good going under
  • Very good defending at the point of attack
  • Reacts and adjusts well after driving into paint
  • Decent footwork on pull-up jumpers
  • Switchable defender

Weaknesses:

  • Midrange-heavy shot diet
  • No 3-pointer
  • Can lose her defensive assignment off the ball
  • Loose handle
  • Easily picks up her dribble on drives
  • Little faceup creation
  • Mediocre agility
  • Tendency to overshade to one side while defending drivers

17. Ashley Joens, off-ball guard, Iowa State

Age: 23

Height: 6’1

Wingspan: 6’0

Offensive role: Movement shooter

Defensive role: Low activity

Strengths:

  • Excellent 2.5-level finisher and shooter (not much of a midrange game)
  • Compact, quick 3-point shot both off the dribble and off the catch
  • Decent off-ball movement
  • Navigates screens decently on defense
  • Can post-up mismatches well

Weaknesses:

  • Little feel for help defense
  • Mediocre playmaker
  • Extremely stiff dribble
  • Struggles to turn corner while dribbling with her left hand
  • Heavy feet on defense, especially at the point of attack
  • Very limited lateral quickness
  • Bounce shooter — tends to hop into long jumpers, which takes longer
  • Poor against late double-teams
  • No good perimeter moves other than her stepback
  • Mediocre footwork on post-ups
  • Terrible screener

18. Fran Belibi, big, Stanford

Age: 21

Height: 6’1

Wingspan: 6’5

Offensive role: Roll & cut big

Defensive role: Mobile big

Strengths:

  • Very good off the dribble for a big — good burst and footwork driving and finishing
  • Decent rim protector — good providing primary rim protection, but mediocre rotating from the backside
  • Very good one-on-one post defender
  • Pretty good managing space in drop coverage and switching between rollers and ball-handlers
  • Plus passer for a big
  • Very good finisher
  • Uses length to contest shots and passes well
  • Elite close-outs, recovers well defensively overall thanks to very good footwork and
  • Decent cutter

Weaknesses:

  • Struggles to change her approach when she runs into help defense while driving
  • Heavy feet in space defensively, slow to match attackers off catch — makes her vulnerable to drives off the catch and quick post spins
  • Herky-jerky jumper, not projectable

19. Zia Cooke, wing, South Carolina

Age: 22

Height: 5’9

Offensive role: Shot-creator

Defensive role: Low activity

Strengths:

  • Incredibly smooth jumper, including textbook one-motion catch-and-shoot form and footwork, and a very similar pull-up shot
  • Extraordinary footwork when attacking in iso
  • Acrobatic finisher
  • Superb athlete — excellent lateral quickness, burst, body control
  • Good at changing speeds to manipulate defenders
  • Good off-ball movement
  • Moves team offense well via passing and movement

Weaknesses:

  • Horrible shot selection — settles for long pull-up middys, takes tough contested layups when not necessary
    • May be partly due to South Carolina always having one or two bigs in the paint when Cooke runs a high PnR
  • Often seems to attack downhill without a plan and without reading paint and help defenders
  • Ball-watching can leave her vulnerable to back cuts and quick relocations
  • Poor defending screens, both recognizing and fighting over them
  • Flat-footed defending in space
  • Doesn’t run her defender into or off of ball screens well at all
  • Limited vision once in scoring mode

20. Elizabeth Kitley, center, Virginia Tech

Age: 21

Height: 6’6

Offensive role: Post scorer

Defensive role: Anchor big

Strengths:

  • Versatile short-range scorer — very good turnaround and fadeaway jumper, and very strong turning the corner during post-ups
  • Somewhat adaptive scoring — can adjust to defensive tendencies over the course of a full game
  • Good at using her length to contest shots after being beaten
  • Good off-ball screener, decent PnR screener
  • Good rebounder
  • Decent positioning in rim protection

Weaknesses:

  • Poor rim protector — doesn’t use her length to alter shots, and struggles to move from one help assignment to the next
  • Poor defensively at the “post point of attack” — doesn’t prevent post-up threats from establishing position, and has trouble guarding them off the dribble
  • Struggles with physically strong post defenders
  • Bad positioning both in drop and at the level
  • Mediocre at establishing post position
  • Poor at receiving entry passes — doesn’t use her body to create larger passing windows, and doesn’t help prevent defenders from deflecting entries
  • Very loose handle
  • Mediocre footwork on post-up counters (i.e. footwork on turnaround jumpers is good, but footwork on up-and-unders is poor)
  • Gets jumpy defending post-ups

21.  Maddy Siegrist, combo forward, Villanova

Age: 22

Height: 6’1

Offensive role: Shot-creator

Defensive role: Low activity

Strengths:

  • Elite jumper — lightning quick pull-up, squares shoulders insanely quickly, absurdly good footwork getting into her shot, can hit anything
  • Great spot-up threat, with range out to 26 feet
  • Elite finisher
  • Great cutter
  • Able to post up mismatches deep enough to get to her spots
  • Great lateral quickness and acceleration
  • Good help defender against off-ball actions
  • Pretty good hedging
  • Good passer for a combo forward

Weaknesses:

  • Struggles to get to her spots in isos or long post-ups
  • No feel for providing help defense to on-ball teammates
  • Mediocre defending off the catch — unsteady footwork, poor burst
  • Seems hesitant to drive more frequently
  • Poor handle
  • Poor footwork in post defense, but strong enough to avoid getting posted by subpar post scorers
  • Struggles defending ball screens
  • Unorthodox mechanics limit how quickly she can get up catch-and-shoot jumpers
  • Poor post-up footwork and coordination, terrible preventing post position against true bigs

Watch list:

Offensive and defensive roles in parentheses

  • Mackenzie Holmes, center, Indiana (roll & cut big, anchor big)
  • Esmery Martinez, big, Arizona (West Virginia transfer)(roll & cut big, mobile big)
  • Madison Greene, combo guard, Ohio State (secondary ball-handler, point of attack)
  • Abby Meyers, off-ball guard, Maryland (Princeton transfer)(off-screen shooter, low activity)
  • Endyia Rogers, point guard, Oregon (primary ball-handler, point of attack)
  • Quinesha Lockett, point guard, Toledo (primary ball-handler, point of attack)

Written by Em Adler

Em Adler (she/her) covers the WNBA at large and college basketball for The Next, with a focus on player development and the game behind the game.

1 Comments

  1. Tim Daniels on December 12, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    I’m curious how you would rate the center prospects after Boston and Kitley. I follow the Minnesota Lynx, who not only lost Sylvia Fowler to retirement, but recently learned that Achonwa is likely to miss most of next season while on pregnancy leave. That means that they currently have just over $881,000 committed to five players, only four of whom are likely to play a significant portion of the season, Napheesa Collier, Jessica Shephard, Kayla MacBride, and Aerial Powers. If they keep their first three draft picks, numbers 2, 12, and 16, at a cost of $207,890, that means that they have only $331,388 to sign three more players to fill out a roster. Even assuming that they are able to resign Moriah Jefferson, Damiris Dantas, and one other player for this amount, and that’s not at all a sure thing, I think they need someone beside Shephard and Dantas who is capable of playing center, and I wonder how you would rank Key, Hirsch, Soares, and Taiyanna Jackson?

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