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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 4698433, member: 7631"] Paige is just SO dedicated to her craft. As has been said repeatedly above (and I and many others said it soon after Paige was hurt last year), she saw the game in a new way sitting on the sidelines, KNOWING that she'd be on the sidelines for the entire season. She made the most of it. I've probably said this before here: there's an amazing (and non-coincidental) correlation between the hardest workers and the most-talented people. Players like Paige are often touted as having such great natural gifts, but to some extent, that discounts just how hard they work. I agree with those that think you probably can't teach the court vision that someone like Bird (Sue or Larry) or Magic had, but the way that Paige thinks about the game is learned, not innate. She's not the quickest player out there, but her mind is a half-step quicker than just about anyone else's. [/QUOTE]