Stewie had a Phenomenal first 8 Freshman games, then had a basketball mental break until late March -April and the NC's There she was unstoppable. Maya is my favorite of the 3 because she was the nicest lady A close second is Morgan Valley just a plain nice person. DT was super great, Stewie as a ball player was the best at Uconn
Hmmm, are you sure it's a max of 2.5? I don't think it's completely out of the question that Paige plays for 3.5. I guess hoping for 4.5 is a bridge too far...
Well said except for one point, Oldhuskie. With due respect, I think we need to see Azzi achieve something on the court before we bring her into the conversation or assume she's at Paige's level. Even without a national championship, Paige has achieved a lot and has created tons of memories of her greatness. Azzi certainly has that bewitching quality called potential, but so far her Huskies career is a tale of foot injury, untimely flu bug and amazing potential. I'm with everyone here hoping she actualizes that potential very soon!
I don't think she can play 4.5 if you only have 5 years to use up your eligibility. For all we know she could decide to turn pro in the spring; you just never know nowadays.
I see a different meaning---however with a person's ability Promise and Potential are essentially the same: Expectations. You may never live up to the Potential but it was there, and for Paige it is there. So, I suggest it isn't meaningless. If Consistency is required, Stewie and one could argue (taking in her freshman NCAA NC game) DT didn't have Potential. Stewie blew most freshman potential as did DT---that takes away the "on a regular basis" I guess when we start speaking in terms of Greatness--great humans aren't always great, except in our memories.
Diana was a point forward.
Let's see. Paige gets one year due to the lost Covid year, plus a red shirt this year. I would think the five year rule is waived due to the free Covid year. It's an interesting question, but I doubt Paige wants to stay in college that long.
I wonder about this too. Does she want to be another Aly Patberg? There’s lots of pleasures to be had staying in college a little longer. And I wonder how attractive the W seems to her. She makes better money now, and her career in the W may not be all that long if she remains injury prone. Could she be happier going into coaching?
I think they just made it so the Covid year doesn't count against your eligibility, so you could play up to 5 seasons in 5 years with the free Covid year.
I think that's a fair comp. Pre-injury Shea was an all-time great. The Whalers were jealous of her.
For a variety of reasons including injury, I think she should qualify with just one title.
For the fun of it I believe it's Stewie 1, DT 2, And Maya 3. And in regards to your point about DT and Maya winning 4, I doubt it but maybe - it depends on how anyone wants to frame it. IMO two of the 4 years Stewie's teams beat Notre Dame (not the year ND lost Achonwa), those ND teams were superior to what Dt and Maya had faced. Anyhow I do not want to knock super super super all-time greats and get into who is greater Willie Mays or Hank Aaron on this thread.Diana Taurasi was the greatest player in the history of the women's game and that is due to her unmatched ability of elevating and making her teammates better. Anyone who follows UConn basketball knows who her teammates were during her last two seasons. Ask a general fan and I highly doubt they'd be able to name one. I also do recall Geno mentioning something about this in an interview at one point. To stir things up a little bit, if you put Diana or Maya on the teams Stewie was on, each would've easily won four championship. I do believe Breanna would've won two being on the teams Maya was on but don't know about more if it would have been more than that. But its all a guessing game so no one (obviously including me) really knows.
If you have the potential to realize millions of dollars as a college player versus less as a professional, why not milk the college scene? In the pros the big girls play rough. Will Paige's body be able to handle the physicality of the pro game here and overseas.
It's open to interpretation, but it's hard to imagine she'd be on par with someone like Stewart who was a 4x champion, 4x Final Four MOP, and went 116-1 over her last 3 years (where she was the NPOY in all 3). Or on par with Moore who went 150-4 in 4 years, was also a 3x POY, finished top 2 in POY voting all 4 years, obliterated record books, and won 2 titles. Or DT who won 3 titles, a slew of accolades and had a 70+ game win streak. All 3 of those players took UCONN to new heights and put the program in a new stratosphere. Paige winning 1 title doesn't put her collegiate career in the same realm as the other 3 IMO.
Not everyone wants to play school. She probably realizes after these injuries that she's not immortal, and she has limited time for a pro career, plus she's already on the older side being 21.
For the long green she will play school where she outshines all of women's college basketball which will not be the case in the WNBA.
Stewie & Co. were so good it likely wouldn't have mattered their league, but she did play three of her four years in the AAC.
