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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4412896, member: 1673"] I’ve been taking a self-imposed exile, as I have done in the past whenever I get a little snarky. I’m thinking of making this one permanent due to other factors, but not before settling some unfinished business. First I apologize to [USER=5823]@CocoHusky[/USER] , for being a little snarky, though we have a rapport where I suspect he’s OK by it. I was a little less snarky with [USER=12088]@Bone Dog[/USER] and [USER=4250]@BobbyJ[/USER], but I have less previous rapport so, no hard feelings? And I must say I think it was unfair to call @CocoHusky’s use of Muhl’s scoring stats to refute [USER=12088]@Bone Dog[/USER] ’s optimism as specious. Those are precisely the type of stats he should have used in his argument. Admittedly, I criticized the math behind his data, but that was before I understood that [USER=12088]@Bone Dog[/USER] likely views a successful Muhl at PG as averaging far less minutes than I would. For the record I view success for Muhl as a starting PG to involve at least 25 mpg and she would need to average 8-10 ppg, which I don’t know will happen. I have hope it will, but I don’t know. I understand why other people have doubts about Muhl as PG because of her scoring potential, but I do not understand the view that this and other factors means Fudd would be a superior one. Let’s get to the heart of the PG role, which is to be able to make decisions and get the others to abide by those decisions with a minimum of mistakes. That quality takes precedence overall others. An indicator of such is not so much who brings the ball up or shoots, but more like the hand signals we witnessed Bueckers giving. If a team is sparse on talent, and the PG is a good scorer, then a lot of those decisions that the team has to abide by is the PG shooting. If the team has the potential for balanced scoring, then you want the PG decisions to respect that. Fudd had a A/T ratio last year under 1.0 and her apm was very small. Even the scorer Ducharme was better at assists per minute, though worse at A/T. Regardless of Fudd’s immense talent, that does not reflect the type of decision making or execution you want from your PG heading up a balanced offense. I doubt any UConn FF team had a person directing the offense with a A/T ratio less than 1.0, and I wonder if any championship by any team was won with the director of the offense having anA/T ratio under 1.0. Maybe one of the Tennessee teams that focused on defense and rebounding? I don’t know. That’s a serious inquiry, if any enterprising BYer wants to provide stats on that I’d be curious. Now I have hope that Fudd could learn to be better at directing an offense with balanced scoring, just as I have hope that Muhl could learn to be better at scoring for the sake of a balanced offense, but this leads me to a comparison with Collier. She played an undersized center for us. For the most part she did a terrific job, an immense talent that deserved the AA awards she got playing center. But her worst games came against the best teams with big, elite centers. ONO in fact, though less of a talent, did better against big, elite centers than Collier. Once Collier got to the WNBA and had a teammate like Fowles to handle the big, elite centers she became even more of a superstar. If we were to go all in on Fudd as a PG I do not doubt her ability to achieve AA status at that position, just like Collier did at center, but I do doubt her ability to make and execute decisions against elite teams with elite perimeter defenses challenging and rushing the PG decisions. If I had a choice of hopes for this team it would be for the person who has trained her whole career to make PG decisions to continue doing so while improving her scoring. Last year I made a pizza bet with [USER=7511]@oldude[/USER] that technically I won, though did not follow up because of the injury plagued season. I am willing to bet the first taker that if we win a championship this year, Muhl will have averaged at least 25 mpg as our starting PG. PM me with the bet, as I may not post again. [/QUOTE]

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