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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 3891835, member: 8636"] I like your enthusiasm. I choose to believe that players like this are rare, very rare. I think the first game of basketball at Springfield College was in 1891. How many players with this unique skillset can you name? A whole generation of players..... I don't appreciate those sentiments. This is virtuosic level performance. Wynton Marsalis on the trumpet at Carnegie Hall, Arthur Rubinstein on the piano playing Chopin. I encourage you to look closer. Try to see the nuance in what these players are doing. Think about what is required. Personally, I do not understand how Paige does what she does. She must be able to learn things instantly and remember them. I find it mind-boggling. A suburban kid from Minnesota. What? She is handed the ball to the slight right of the top of the key, with the screener in front of her. Lott(DPOY) is on her tightly, she is between Paige and the screener. Paige makes a hard move to the right, sealing Lott on the screener, and with the 6 inches she gained by that move, and one step left, in a split second she pulls the J from 3, nothing but cord. The subtlety is sick. I guess athletes' movement is like music or art, in that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. BTW Find the documentary on Cheryl Miller, Women of Troy. (Hulu) You'll see the player you're describing. Oh crap! That was 40 years ago. [/QUOTE]