Hebard hardly scored outside of 5 feet from the basket her entire career at Oregon, yet not many teams had any luck stopping her from doing that. If it works, keep doing it until somebody stops you, right?
Not picking on your post but this thread has somewhat gotten off track to the point where some are putting forward and defending AA credentials for Paige. I don't view those as necessary at this point-Paige will be named an AA this season. What is being debated and I thought the intent of the thread is will she win either the AP National POY or the Naismith-this season. IMO it is possible but not likely.
Yep. Can anyone say Megan Gustafson?
Okay, fair enough. I followed Plum's Senior year very closely, her consistency was remarkable. She wasn't held under 21 all season, scored 30+ 17 times and 40+ 5 times. As amazing as that year was, it's awfully hard for me to imagine playing an entire season like that plus raising her scoring average almost 9 ppg.
Yup-Megan Gustafson=AP player of the year over Junior Sabrina Ionescu.
I agree. Yet I was one that once said Babe's 714 and Roger Maris' 61 were untouchable. I just say almost impossible now.
Caitlin played on the USA team with Paige at the women's 2019 FIBA u19 World Cup in Thailand. The USA survived a 16 team playoff and Paige was awarded the MVP trophy.
How about Cal Ripken Jr.'s iron man record? I'm feeling pretty safe saying nobody is gonna touch that one. Not in this current era of resting players frequently.
Yep. As I said, along with DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak, nigh on impossible. But I won't ever say never.
It's almost impossible to compare guards/wings to posts. Obviously Bueckers is going to have the ball in her hands more and have different kinds of responsibilities directing an offense than Hillmon does.
AGREE totally, like myself I don't think that stuff is on her mind at all. Now if pressed with the question my guess is she would like to hold up an NC trophy along with one for final four MVP.
Not so sure how we got so off track. This McLain award is a WBCA award is voted on on coaches for the best player at the PF position. Paige is not competing against Hillman for the McLain award. Piage is competing in the category of best PG Liberman Piage is also NOT competing against Hillman for the Wade Trophy which is the WBCA version of the national POY because freshman are not eligible for the Wade. Paige is competing against Hillman for AP National Player and the Naismith POY. If you want to argue who is more impactful that's a slightly different discussion but before you or some others jump to the conclusion that it is Paige keep in mind that Michigan is 10-1 Ranked #12 in the Coaches poll and playing in a P5 conference. As much as I hate to say it 26 and 12 in Big 10 is more impressive than what Paige is doing in the BE. BTW Megan Gustafson won the AP POY over Sabrina for the 18'-19 her numbers were 27PPG and 13 RPG.
Which award?
Not that I have every article or thread on my radar but in the last month, I don't recall seeing nary a word against her, especially on some competing sites. If anything, ESPN, Yahoo Sports and SportsIllustrated social media has been upping it's Paige coverage and pictures and blurbs. What are you alluding to lately as negative?
And I'm sure that Bueckers has a title a few levels above any award on her list of goals. She did win MVP of the USAU19 championships where Cooke and Boston were her team mates but it was the gold medal that she valued.
That's exactly why I'm asking. I also completely forgot about the Honda which would be the 4th major POY award. Wade, AP, Naismith, Honda. A freshman has never won any of these four major awards. All of these awards tend to favor upper classman.
Cooke was not on that U19 squad the other PGs were Caitlin Clark and Hailey VanLith.
Paris also won AP POY as a sophomore in 2007.
Don't think I'm taking any risk in claiming that Cy Young's record of 749 complete games will never be broken...but I take your point.