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Message: [QUOTE="Buzzyboy, post: 2122719, member: 1364"] There's a number of voters that don't agree with your idea of flipping the two. I think there's a number of people that feel that Gabby may be the single most important factor in this team's great season and I'm not one to argue because she's awesome. What I really don't like is that in order to talk her up, there's some people on the Boneyard that feel the need to denigrate KLS by saying she should be off the list. No question that Gabby deserves more acknowledgement than she gets from the media but to feel the need to take away from the great season that Katie Lou has is crap. A'ja Wilson got all kinds of media attention but there's many people on this board that don't feel that she is a first team All-American. Why not throw her under the bus instead of one of this wonderful teams' best players???? I think a lot of sportscasters typically go for the home run hitters and not necessarily the singles hitter who plays great defense and is a great base stealer who leads the league in runs scored. It's the big power hitter that gets all the headlines and 3 point shooting is comparable to home runs in the women's game. The other day KLS didn't have a particularly good second half on paper but her presence on the court and her ability to draw attention away from other players made it easier for them to be successful. Do you think if you didn't have KLS on this team that Pheesa and Gabby would have the numbers they do? Her being so deadly, particularly at the arc, means that you don't have a collapsing defense, freeing them up to do the things that they do. Things aren't that black and white, you know. People talk about the numbers and since KLS plays appreciably more minutes on the perimeter, she's not going to get rebounding numbers comparable to the others. We're blessed to have some exceptional players but the one annoying thing about this board is the propensity of people to feel the need to take away from one in order to praise another. As parents, would you do that to your kids in the fashion you seem to do it here? [/QUOTE]

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