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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4663150, member: 1131"] I remember that before last season, I had a Boneyard debate with CocoHusky (who seems to have left the board) on this subject -- a debate which was started when I suggested that Aaliyah had the talent to have a 4-year career comparable to Morgan's. His response, basically, was (paraphrasing), "I knew Morgan Tuck. Aaliyah Edwards ain't no Morgan Tuck." He said that the only points of commonality were that they were about the same size and played the same position, and that Aaliyah needed to learn a whole lot more from Jamelle Eliot about playing her position before she could aspire to the Morgan mantle. To be fair, Coco was reacting at that time to Aaliyah's sophomore season, which was certainly disappointing. I think that if he had commented during or after the 2022-23 season, he would have had a more positive take not only on Aaliyah but also on Nika, whose performance he also frequently disparaged. I think that [USER=1303]@JRRRJ[/USER]'s statistics show, as he said, that their junior years were very statistically comparable. The most notable difference is that Aaliyah played about 30% more minutes, probably because she was so rarely injured. I expect that their senior years will also be comparable. If that is true, then we can say that UConn's power forward in 2023-24 will be good enough to win a National Championship. I think we can all agree that UConn's point guard in the upcoming season will be good enough to win an NC. So all we really need to do is to find a Stewie equivalent. No problem, right? [/QUOTE]

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