The WNBA draft this year has a different twist due to COVID-19 and it will be a virtual WNBA Draft on Friday, April 17th at 7:00 PM E.T. Make sure you tune in and support women’s basketball. Let’s take a look at our favorite player in this year’s WNBA draft.
Penny
My favorite player in this year’s WNBA draft pick is the amazing 6’4″ Forward Satou Sabally from the University of Oregon better known as the” Ducks”. Sabally has had so many accolades this year as a junior. Here are a few of them:
- – Cheryl Miller Award Winner (nation’s top small forward)
- – Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- – All-Pac-12
The list goes on and on with awards and accomplishments for Sabally. Earlier this year she decided to declare for the WNBA draft early. Her statistics this year are insane and she is indeed my favorite player in this year’s draft pick. Just for the fun of it let’s take a look at her numbers this year. She finished with 31 points against California, she played 40 minutes against Oregon State and finished with 12 rebounds against Oregon State.
Her field goal percentage was great with 46 percent and the most impressive stat is her total rebounds for the year with 201. To top it all of she averaged 16.2 points per game this year. Any team can benefit from her. Satou can basically do it all plus more. A forward that can help in the paint and dominate at all times with her strength and quickness.
LaMarr
My favorite player in this year’s WNBA draft is Crystal Dangerfield from the Connecticut Huskies. Dangerfield averaged 14.8 points, 4.1 assist, and 3.4 rebounds in her season as Huskie. Also, Dangerfield shot 41 percent from beyond the arch and 45.8 percent from the field.
Dangerfield is a general floor type of point guard, and she is battle-tested, having played in a lot of big games at Connecticut. Dangerfield is only 5’5″, but she is strong for her size, and it allows her to attack the paint and draw fouls to get to the free-throw line where she shoots 86 percent from the charity stripe. Whoever drafts Dangerfield will be getting an outstanding point guard that can lead a team.
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