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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3284526, member: 9403"] Without a settled definition of terms like "transcendent" and "dominant," I'm not even sure what the point to this debate is. Yes, there have been several guards in the past decade to win the Wade Trophy and many more to earn one or more year of AA status. Just like there were Wade Trophy and AA-status forwards besides Stewwie (Griner, for example, matched Stewwie's two-time Wade Trophy awards). What made Stewwie transcendent was that she did things with a basketball that you just didn't expect (especially for her size), like she had a telekinetic power to guide the basketball beyond her fingertips. Griner has size, but Stewwie had wow. I'll be the first to agree Ionescu is not at the Stewwie level, but she's the closest I've seen since to possess that same "wow" ability since Stewwie graduated in 2016. None of the players in that long list you mentioned are anywhere near as enjoyable for me to watch as Ionescu, because of what she can do from all over the court, often when you simply don't think it's possible. Also, maybe we've all just subconsciously soaked up sports journalism, but the [URL='https://www.apnews.com/3a8345a5f7e14240b0a2ab37f8fb6245']AP[/URL], [URL='https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2019-04-07/how-didi-richards-emerged-baylors-secret-weapon-2019-final']NCAA[/URL], and [URL='https://highposthoops.com/2019/03/30/ionescu-legacy-oregon-ncaa-tournament/']High Post Hoops[/URL] have all described Ionescu as "transcendent." For example: It's ok for someone other than UConn to have the star player once in a while, y'all. I expect the words "Bueckers" and "transcendent" will also be used together a lot starting in 2021. [/QUOTE]

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