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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 4614495, member: 10435"] I think the original point was that the difference between Clark on the one hand and Sue, DT and Paige on the other is the ability to make teammates better during a game, to elevate them to greatness for that moment. I suppose the quintessential example is MJ with Steve Kerr or John Paxson. Sure, they were both pros, but incapable of rising to that special moment of being epic and throwing the championship punch without MJ. He willed it through them with his confidence. The same was true with DT and Strother. She never had a greater game when all was on the line than the 2003 or 2004 game, you can take your pick, and that was because of Diana. Moore, Battle and Turner never had the same shining moments than those they had when with Diana. Why was that? The great ones have a gift of making those around them better than they could be otherwise, sometimes just for a game, a quarter, or even a play. Ask Marie Conlon. She looked like a First Team AA out there with Diana in the title game. I said it before, that game changed her life. I would not be surprised to see her in Congress or holding state office someday. Once you overcome obstacles and get to the top, with a little help from the GOAT, nothing is really ever an obstacle again in your mind, and after all, isn't that all that stops you anyway with most things?. [/QUOTE]