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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 3300671, member: 2117"] You're strongly over valuing how good UCONN's players were in 2001. Here were the numbers for their junior (not sophomore) class: Bird in 2001 averaged 11 ppg and 5 apg and had less than a 2:1 A/TO ratio. She shot 44% from the floor on the season, 43% from deep and was badly outplayed by Niele Ivey in the national semifinals where she shot just 7-21 from the floor. Good point guard? Absolutely. Signs of becoming a 4x gold medalist? Not that season. Cash had a good year and averaged 12 points and 7.5 rebounds. Good player, yes. All American? No. Asjha Jones averaged 8.7 points and 5.4 rebounds on 44% shooting from the floor. All American? No way. Tamika Williams averaged 9.8 points and 5.6 rebounds on 76% shooting from the floor. Great FG%, but not an All-American. Kelly Schumacher (Sr) averaged 6.3 points and 4.3 rebounds on 52% shooting. Averaged 1.4 blocks per game. She had a career game in the 2000 title game which everyone remembers and also stepped up and had a huge first half vs ND in the Final Four. Besides that, she was not a standout player on either end. To say the team was better without Abrosimova is laughable. Taurasi stepped up but Abrosimova was a lock for 1st Team All-America that season prior to injury. They badly missed her (and Ralph) in the semifinals when Bird/Taurasi couldn't throw it in the ocean and no one else on the team was capable of getting their own shot. They also lost Ralph who was one of their best players on both sides of the ball. Fact is, the 2002 senior class of Bird/Cash/Williams/Jones were all significantly better the following year as seniors than they were as juniors. I'll agree that I'd take Bird in 2001>Hartley in 2013 (note: Hartley wasn't an AA in 2013), but I'd also take 2013 Dolson/Faris/KML hands down over 2001 Swin/Tamika/Asjha/Schumacher/Conlon, and I think most UCONN fans would. [/QUOTE]

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