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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 3805947, member: 6034"] In my view, what tends to be missing in comparisons like this is context--or, as others have said, enough attention being paid to the fact that basketball is a team game. The teams that Caitlin and Paige joined are very different: Paige's includes experienced players who were ranked #1, #2, and #6 coming out of high school: I doubt (but haven't checked) Iowa has any players other than Clark in that category. And that difference, in turn, has a major effect on all sorts of things: number of shots taken (really, the number of shots needed for success), assists, turnovers, the fact that other teams can focus their defense on one or the other (Clark, certainly; Paige, not so much), and so on. And I'd argue that Ionescu's situation at Oregon was by far the worst of the three: a lineup that was made up almost entirely of freshmen and lacked upperclass leadership (and talent), with the second best player on the team a very raw freshman from Alaska (Hebard). (She also broke her thumb during those seven weeks.) No Ono, no Westbrook, no Williams--the list could go on. When has any player coming to UCONN joined a roster like that? So, things progressed/will progress for all three at different rates accordingly. And that, in turn, makes comparisons based on stats really difficult, if not misleading. Bottom line: all three are players any team would want on its roster. [/QUOTE]