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Message: [QUOTE="DavidinNaples, post: 3263053, member: 3537"] [ATTACH type="full"]46159[/ATTACH] [B]First, a disclaimer. Not everything a good point guard does is captured in her statistics. [/B]Breaking the press, making a great pass to a shooter who misses and/or shutting down the other teams' best scorer are all items that don't make the box score. That said, IMO the three best stats available to measure point guard performance are assists, points, and steals. (In that order) :cool: [B]1. Assists[/B] -[B] The top 5 assist leaders in UConn history are Moriah (659), Diana (648), Jen Rizzotti (637), Renee Montgomery (632) and Sue Bird (585[/B]). Is there a better UConn point guard missing from that list? Crystal enters this season ranked 14th at 481 assists. She is 179 assists away from passing all those players and taking over the all-time assist record for the Huskies. How likely is that to happen? Well, last season she had 225 assists. Just 80% of that total would give her the record. :) [B]2. Points - Crystal has 1,032 points in her first three seasons.[/B] That is good enough for 45th place all-time. Sue Bird is just 346 points away and MoJeff is exactly 500 points ahead. Last year, Crystal scored 511 points on an offense dominated by Pheesa (792 points) and Katie Lou (630 points). If healthy, 500 points seem very likely. Scoring 600 points would place Dangerfield in the top 20 all-time at UConn and ahead of Sue and Moriah. ;) [B]3. Steals - Nobody had more steals than Nykesha Sales at 447. [/B]But, MoJeff is 2nd at 353 and Sue Bird is 13th at 243. Crystal's total of 148 in her career makes passing either of those two unlikely. Her season-best was 60 last year. Repeating that number would give her over 200 steals, but even 15th place requires 235. Not likely. [B]4. National Championships - [/B]All-time great players make their teams great. One measure of great teams is winning a National Championship. Sue won two (2000, 2002), one with D.T. and one without. MoJeff won four (2012-2016) with Stewie. Crystal has had three seasons of heartbreak with Final Four losses, including 2 in overtime. Will this be the breakthrough season when NC #12 is won? [B]A strong season by Crystal might leave her ahead of Sue and Moriah in points and assists[/B]. That would be a truly amazing career for a great player. But, it may take that 12th N.C. to cement her place in a discussion about all-time great point guards at UConn. Regardless, unlike her namesake, Rodney Dangerfield, Crystal deserves all the respect in the world. Can't wait to see her performance this season..!! [B]Go Huskies..!![/B] [/QUOTE]

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