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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3300645, member: 1673"] Again, my issue is not with it being up for debate. Even if we agreed on the criteria in performing the best at the most important moments, there is debate. Certainly there is added debate over whether that should be the criteria. My issue is how deceptive you are in referring to Stewart's "luxury of teammates," and you did it again. Only the freshmen year is pertinent to this. So what if Stewart played with Jefferson and Tuck her junior and senior years? Big deal. Certianly they could have won with Moore, Taurasi or a handful of others as well, just as the '09 and '10 teams could win with Stewart, Taurasi and a handful of others as well. The team of Taurasi's freshmen year? Well, that's where you are being most coy. Bird was voted the best point guard in college basketball that year. The junior Bird was better than the junior Hartley. So what if Ralph and Abrosimova went down? The team played better afterwards with a simplified roster because they still had Cash, Williams, Bird and Jones. Let me repeat that, until the Final Four they played better without Abrosimova than with her, the '01 roster was just that stacked. The rest were not the AAs of Ralph and Abrosimova? Well of course not. They were juniors and no one is going to vote seven AAs for the same team. Had Ralph and Abrosimova not played that whole year, two or more of the remaining cast yet would have made at least 2nd team AA, at least one or more would have been first. No question as evidenced in their subsequent histories. You are probably the only person who thinks that the future Olympians of Bird (also Lieberman award winner that year), Cash and Jones (with the injury prone Williams actually being the most efficient player and the record block holder Schumacher) was not as talented as the squad Stewart played with her freshmen year. But I don't think you really believe that, you are just being disingenuous to reinforce your point when you don't have to be. You are right, Stewart's claim is debatable, but not because she had the "luxury" of better teammates when she had her toughest mission to accomplish. [/QUOTE]

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