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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4404215, member: 12088"] I kinda agree with [USER=8932]@WFFL[/USER] on this one, if we understand it a certain way. If Paige had not come back at all, there's no telling what we might have accomplished. The team received a huge emotional boost when she did come back, and I think that was crucial to how the season ended. But other trends were building in the team at the same time, so there's no telling. [B]However[/B], and this is where I mainly agree, [B]if we'd lost Paige again before the Stanford game, or even the NC St game[/B], if she'd just been too worn out from the previous games to have a "Paige" game, or even to play at all, [B]I doubt very much the team could have recovered from that loss[/B]. She had become the essential component of the team again. I suspect that's just who Paige is -- any team she joins, she will become the key to its success one way or another. It's her little bit of magic. The downside of her magic -- and we saw it at the beginning of both seasons -- is that the rest of the team can succumb to "Paige-watching." This is why she is so careful to involve them in the offense, to find them open shots, to celebrate everything they do, etc. She knows a team of Paige-watchers can't win an NC. [/QUOTE]