Post-up; pivot; layup. Catch; overhead pass; assist. Dribble; midrange jumper; swish.

Emma Meesseman has established these plays as routine during a breakout third-year season for the Washington Mystics. Given her draft position, however, it would appear her success is anything but ordinary.

For context, many of the Top 15 WNBA players of all time, named in 2011, joined the league before 2000, at a time when player allocation outweighed draft order. Of the players on that list that entered the league after 2000, however, all but two were selected within the first three picks of their respective drafts; current superstars Maya Moore, Brittney Griner, and Elena Delle Donne were as well. In short, the WNBA appears to be a league dominated by its top draft picks.

Two players on contending teams in the East, however, are doing their best to show that players selected outside the first round can do more than simply compete—they can excel.

Meesseman, a second rounder from 2013, ranks among the league leaders in points, rebounds, blocks, and field goal percentage, pushing her squad towards the top of the Eastern Conference.

Alex Bentley, picked in the same round in the same year, has helped spark an unlikely first-half run by the Connecticut Sun while approaching the top of the league scoring list on the way.

Meesseman and Bentley have drawn attention this season to the potential of later round picks, yet diamonds in the rough have always existed. Here’s a look at the some of the top talent throughout WNBA history from the second round, third round, and beyond:

Becky Hammon

Perhaps player allocation confused the significance of the draft in the early years of the WNBA. Still, teams passed over one of the top 15 players in WNBA history in not only the first round of the 1999 WNBA Draft, but the draft as a whole. Becky Hammon signed with the Liberty as an undrafted free agent in 1999, where she played seven seasons before finishing her career with another seven seasons with the San Antonio Stars. In that time, “Big Shot Becky” made six All-Star teams and two All-WNBA First Teams, and led the league in assists during 2007. Among WNBA career leaders, she sits fourth in assists, seventh in points, and second in both made three-point field goals and free throw percentage.

Tammy Sutton-Brown

Sutton-Brown made waves as a high school player in Ontario, Canada, and the Toronto Sun selected her as the nation’s best female basketball prospect. The now-defunct Charlotte Sting selected her in the second round of the 2001 WNBA Draft, and she immediately flourished, making the All-Star Game in her second season to become the first Canadian to do so. She would play in one other All-Star Game during her career and now sits in fifth place on the career blocks list and sixteenth on the rebounds list.

Nicky Anosike and Charde Houston

The Minnesota Lynx scouting department merited a heap of praise after the 2008 draft. Not only did the Lynx take 2008 Sixth Woman of the Year Candice Wiggins in the first round, but the team also selected Anosike and Houston in the second and third rounds, respectively. Both made the 2009 All-Star team, and Houston won a championship in 2011 with the Lynx.

Allison Hightower

Although she’s struggled with injuries over the past two years, the 2010 second round pick burst onto the scene in 2013 after beginning her career with three quiet seasons. Hightower averaged 12.8 points per game and added three assists each contest to qualify for her first all-star Game, exceeding the expectations placed on her as the third pick of the second round in 2010.

Jessica Breland

Breland barely fell out of the first round of the 2011 WNBA draft, going thirteenth overall to Minnesota as the first pick of the second round. Just making it to the league marked an accomplishment for Breland, who missed her 2009-10 season at North Carolina while enduring treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Breland continued to defy the odds last season when she made her first All-Star game as a member of the Chicago Sky, and this season she plays a key supporting role on a team that includes Elena Delle Donne and Cappie Pondexter.