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Message: [QUOTE="Jonathan14, post: 5138611, member: 11087"] Last night, during the game, my spouse and I were discussing how much Sarah reminds us of Maya in the poise she has with the ball in her hands. When the ball is in Sarah's hands, you feel like nothing bad will happen. She might not make the shot or the perfect pass, but she's probably not going to make a nervous mistake, either. Many years ago, I coached a high school girls' lacrosse team with a woman who had been an Olympic ice hockey player. (She was a tremendous athlete and great tactician; I was mostly there for crowd control.) She always emphasized that poise under pressure was the X-factor that separated the great athletes from the all-time greatest. Maya had it in spades, and Sarah seems to have it too. Sometimes, I wonder if the basketball public forgets just how transcendent Maya was because of how (relatively) early she stopped playing professionally and on the U.S. national team. Barring injury, if her career had lasted as long as her peers, I think she would be more widely recognized as the greatest women's basketball player of all time. And to think she put those accolades aside to dedicate her life to work that she truly believes in and serves others. The very best kind of "influencer." [/QUOTE]