Work hard and learn from one of the best post coaches and post players in the country young lady…
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Layla Hays Staying
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It was a massive jump from Wasilla high school, Alaska, to major college bb. The potential is there IMO. As Skydog stated, she is in the right place to improve. I think we see a big jump by mid-season next year.
This makes me happy and I will look forward to watching her improve over her career and enjoy the fact that she wants to be here.
Hopefully these athletes have the right mentors in their life when adversity hits. There is fine line between knowing you have to keep working hard and mature and improve your game and realizing you probably arent going to get playing time. Eventually mentors can only mentor and allow the player to make the decision for themselves without putting any due pressure on them.
Excellent
Still weird that we now celebrate annual recommitments, but thus is the world
Still weird that we now celebrate annual recommitments, but thus is the world
I imagine not a lot of other bigs to go up against outside of AAU. She has the frame, just needs to the confidence to use it.
Layla is a project. Good for her to have the self awareness to understand that and work to improve with a staff that has a history of great post development. That seems to be missing in a lot of players today.
you can't teach size, and Layla has that
if she can develop a midrange jumper and make her layups she could turn out to be a decent player for the hawks
if she can develop a midrange jumper and make her layups she could turn out to be a decent player for the hawks
I can see her turning into a Czinano with more size.
A midrange is asking a lot based on where she is today. I think if she can just develop better footwork and awareness of what's happening around her on the court that would be a huge plus next year.
This wasn’t really a recommitment I guess, I just took the opportunity to publicize it since she answered someone’s question.
I do think the “resigned” posts are wild.
This is the play I remember about Layla Hayes this season:
The first job in the portal era, is to keep current players. Obviously several misses earlier this week...
From what I remember she made several mid range jumpers early in the season. She does have that skill. That's why I thought it was weird that she's such a poor free throw shooter.....
That's gotta be priority one with her. I never want to see another sub 60 percent free throw shooter getting substantial minutes and Layla was sub 40% in conference play. If she can't fix that next year she probably needs to be shown the door
One of them I'm sure is waiting for the right offer before declaring that she's leaving.
