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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4415135, member: 12088"] You are misrepresenting what I said, I think. I didn't say "[B]a game here or a game there qualifies her as an all time great."[/B] I have been saying all along that stats don't qualify her, impressive as they are, [B]only NCs do[/B] -- and I'm sure Paige would agree. I merely offered one qualification that might make us think Paige could turn out to be compar[B]able[/B] to Diana after she's won a couple NCs, namely that she did more as a freshman (and maybe even in a shortened sophomore run) than Diana had to. She carried a weaker team to the final four twice. Diana won 3 NCs, and she carried her team to two of them. Paige hasn't done that. But Diana did her most amazing work -- carrying teams all the way -- as a junior and a senior. She had no Sue guiding the team next to her on those. You quibbled with me that Paige hadn't "carried" the team to any final fours, though you conceded she'd carried the team to a win over NC St -- [B]which was precisely my point. By winning that game, she carried UConn to a FF game[/B]. Those are your own words. I then conceded that you could credibly argue she didn't "carry" UConn to the FF game the previous season by beating Baylor because Christyn had a good game, too. But watching the details of that game, as [USER=11664]@sun[/USER] points out, gives any observer reason to think she was the essential player that game too. [/QUOTE]