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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 2506629, member: 1673"] This continues to be a lively discussion, mainly kept on cordial terms. Impressive. Two further thoughts. When I compared Lobo to Washington I was comparing the first to be president with the first team MVP to win a NC, not the player responsible for setting things in motion. Bascomb may have been responsible for that, or it may have been whatever player on the roster that attracted Bascomb to the team. That is getting into the realm of pure hypotheticals. It is not hypothetical that Lobo was on the first team to win the NC, nor that she was the MVP on that team, nor (like Washington) she emulated what we would wish of NC winners (or presidents). Others may think that's not a suitable criteria for guaranteeing one of the spots on "Mt. Rushmore," totally understandable as we are dealing with a totally subjective phenomenon, but I want to make clear there was nothing hypothetical behind my criteria for placing her there. I believe Auriemma continues to improve as a coach over time. One consequence of that is how efficiently the team plays and the stats that go along with that. I'm not willing to declare emphatically that Bird was better than Jefferson, or vice-versa, in regards to their UConn careers. If my hypothesis is true, however, it's misleading to compare efficiency stats between the present and the past. This hypothesis could be tested. A trend of team efficiency stats could be charted. If the trend is ever upward, then so would the trend be for the best individual players. Maybe that hypothesis would be proven wrong (I'm too lazy to do it), but until it is tested I would not place too much stock in comparing efficiency stats for players more than a decade apart. [/QUOTE]

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