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USC women's basketball analyst offers film session on star recruit Jazzy Davidson

USC women's basketball analyst offers film session on star recruit Jazzy Davidson

USA Today4 days ago
USC women's basketball won't have JuJu Watkins on the floor for the first several weeks of the coming season, and maybe the whole season. We don't know what the exact recovery timetable is, and we don't know if Watkins will even choose to play this season. What we do know is that an incoming freshman -- one of the very best recruits in the country -- will play for USC this fall. Jazzy Davidson will try to give the Trojans another electric star on the court. USC women's basketball analyst Cece Clay went to the vault to look at game film of Davidson with Team USA in the Under-19 World Cup.
We should note this is a different film session from an earlier one we passed along in June. The Under-19 World Cup offered a fresh new environment -- international ball -- in which Jazzy Davidson was able to display her skills and sharpen her game before beginning her college career at USC.
What comes across in Cece's latest video presentation on Jazzy Davidson is that USC is getting a smart and hungry player. The film segments on Davidson show a player who is always moving and is hustling when other players on the court are standing around. Davidson is always looking for a better angle, a better line of attack, a better chance to make a winning play. That trait is combined with floor vision and a generally high basketball IQ which enable Jazzy Davidson to make good reads in halfcourt sets but to also make instinctive plays in traffic with improvisational awareness. If Jazzy Davidson puts it all together this season, USC can still be a great team.
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