February 24, 2024
Locked On Women’s Basketball: Osborne, Correa provide potential second-round value in WNBA Draft
By The Next
There's more to the draft than the first round
In a new episode of Locked On Women’s Basketball, Hunter Cruse, Em Adler and Lincoln Shafer discuss more WNBA prospects! They discuss why UCLA’s Charisma Osborne and Florida’s Leilani Correa could be valuable second-round picks in the 2024 draft.
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Osborne, a fifth-year senior guard, is averaging 14.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.8 steals per game. She’s shooting 41.6% from the field and 34.8% from 3-point range this season. Here’s Lincoln’s assessment of Osborne:
“She’s a really fun basketball player who I enjoy watching. Do I wish that she was a 36% [career 3-point] shooter instead of a [33%] shooter? Absolutely. Do I wish that she was 6’1 instead of 5’8.5? Also absolutely. But she’s a solid defensive guard who plays hard. She’s upped her playmaking volume this year. … She’s always to me read as really smooth and never out of control, really. She plays at her own pace. And she’s very good when when she can play at her own pace and kind of lead the dance.”
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Correa, another fifth-year senior guard, is averaging 17.4 points, 3.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.4 steals per game. She’s shooting 43.7% from the field and 40.3% from beyond the arc. Em explains what Correa can offer as a prospect:
“She sinks a heck of a lot of threes. She’s been doing that for her whole career; she’s just been tasked with taking an inefficient selection of them. … When you look at someone who is able to hit a lot of threes and able to hit them well, even off of a little bit of movement; when you look at someone who moves well on offense to relieve pressure for teammates or open their own shot; when you look at someone who gets to the rim a ton and is fouled there a ton … I think that’s enough all together to say this is a clearly positive impact offensive player. I think a lot of it from there comes down to [her] defense.”
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