She is carrying wb on her back and there are other great players on LI but this kid can do it all. best I saw this year.
Great individual player no doubt. WB has history of producing great isolation players. The other players someone mentioned are also great players, more team play oriented. Also interesting to note the US national teams did not select SS for the senior team at the height of her career or the current WB player for the current U19 team. I think she should have made the team this year but a team needs to commit to that style of play. Some teams will beat you with a balanced attack, some will try to load it all on an individual player. I think the US national team are looking for those cog in the wheel type players.
Please ,plenty of politics involved, kid from WB is best player on the island , down performance against BBP or Mt Sinai had more to do with those being actual teams from top to bottom than individual player on other team. Watched BBp vs Mt Sinai game and neither of those kids were the best player on the field that day. Go watch Farmingdale vs BBp on MSG again #10 best player on field that day , or St.Anthony vs Mt. Sinai the kid from Sinai struggled .The kid from WB essentially has 1 other kid on that team to work with ,when she is on a team with more weapons she makes the other kids around her better and is way less of an isolation player than some of the others mentioned.
If you put those other kids on WB they would HAVE to do more. It is not that they can't. I saw the ST A's game as well and the MT Sinai kid was getting locked off and slid to whenever she touched the ball. Still got plenty of opportunities for her teamates. Give credit to the St A's goalie who had a phenomenal game! That being said Mt Sinai and BBp use all their kids because they can. Give credit to those coaches and kids for being unselfish. It is funny that it appears you watch games and only look at the effect a kid has on the offensive side of the ball. The reason that the Mt Sinai,BBP and St A's kid are so good is their effect everywhere else. They are all Great in the 30's where the game is controlled. Great in transition DEFENSE (stopping other teams breaks), great at shutting the other teams best player down, great at getting to ground balls, great at sliding and helping their teammates when they are beat. Great on the circle, great at causing turnovers, great at clearing the ball and are all really good offensively as well. It is not always the kids doing all the scoring that are playing the best.
You obviously are talking about a game as if you watched when in reality you did not. My point is its very easy to say the wB player got outplayed when playing those kids that were mentioned when in reality she got outplayed by a whole team. Watch the Farmingdale BBp game and tell me #10 was not the best player on the field that day , you talk about draw controls , ground balls , clearing the ball she was obviously the best player , add in scoring when it was needed and there is no question. Not a knock on any other player it is what it is, but some of you are blinded by your loyalty to a player or your dislike of another. Take the WB kid off her team how many games do they win without her.
I have seen all these kids play many times! Against each other and with each other. To bring up on game against a down Farmingdale team doesn't prove that #10 is better than # 19. Ask Weiner who she thinks is better! I can guarantee what her answer would be (#19). They are all great and it is very hard to say who is better. My point is that most people watch a game and value the kids who get the points on offense. I am just pointing out that there are so many aspects of the game that need to be valued. Funny thing is the WB kid is great on the draw and you never mention it. I think she is a great player but not clearly the best.
I think WB is the best player. Fabulous on offense, speedy to get where she needs to be, an excellent shooter and feeder, and can play defense as well. I was there when WB played BBP and all I can say was WB as a whole was off that day, big time. Not saying WB would win if they rematched, but I bet it would be closer.
I also saw the BBP v. Farmingdale game and #10 had a great game -- because Farmindale's defense was like a sieve. Put her against a good defense and she is almost completely stymied, you can check Newsday's stats on that. 19 sees the game and who she can assist if she can't go to goal herself, 10 sees the goal much more than an open player so if she can't get through the defense alone then that's that.
MS girl is a great player but too many tricks up her sleeve. Cheap fouls, string tightening, moving after the whistle. That diminishes her in my eyes. No one is faster though, and she's got a lightning shot.
