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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5018935, member: 12088"] I am not a numbers guy either and like to invoke supposed “unquantifiables.” But the fact is numbers are necessarily an indirect measure of even those things, especially PER. The question is how accurate this measure is, and that is mainly a function of sample size. The more data the more closely PER reflects the unquantifiable factors. Ice got a ton of minutes in the BET, but that was still a small sample size. And in the NCAA tournament she got rather fewer minutes. if eye turn to the infamously inaccurate eyeball test, what I mainly saw was that Ice kept opposing teams from crushing us in the paint. That is, she did enough to allow Paige & Co to thrive. I agree that she’ll never dominate by the usual “big” measures, like shot blocking. But she is likely to do enough to support Jana. The key is that Sarah will do so much — if we can guess from her HS numbers — to take a lot of the pressure off our post players. [/QUOTE]