That’s a bit of tunnel vision. Watkins had a stretch of games when she couldn’t throw the basketball in the ocean. Both Hidalgo and Betts have had a few stinkers, as has Booker and pretty much every other top player in the country. While I don’t believe Paige has earned the NPOY, she has most definitely earned 1st team AA.
Amen Broooce, right on the head. Give yourself a mic drop.
Shouldn’t we make a fuss about Sarah and see what happens?
That's a bit of tunnel vision as well. What exactly has she done that's better than the rest of the players on the first team? I know I wouldn't trade her for any of them, even if that were possible, but her numbers don't really support, do they? A lot of Paige's greatness comes from her leadership and other intangibles. Hard to quantify that for AA voters who haven't watched every game...
As I noted in my earlier post other teams have/need/want their top player to take more of the overall team's shots, as well as to play more minutes because they don't have the bench we have this season. If you carefully compare Paige's stats to the other top players you really get to see how terrifically well-rounded she is as the numbers don't lie. And don't just look at this season's stats - for instance, this year Paige hasn't gotten as many blocks as last year (a stat that JuJu leads her this season), but she achieved that because that's what the team needed then. If Geno's system allowed Paige to take over games as Caitlin Clark did at Iowa (who took 35% of her team's shots last year), there's no doubt in my mind that she could be among the best in most statistical categories. But our fair Paige is a consummate team player, and team wins seems to be the only measure she's interested in (and winning that elusive natty!).
Blakes of Vanderbilt is a freshman this year. Has had 2 50+ point games.
Don't disagree but apparently voters don't do as deep a dive. You don't need to convince me. Send that to the people who vote.
I'm with you, Rowdy. I'm good with Paige being second team... there were stretches of the season when it was debatable between Paige and Sarah, who was the better player.
One screwup begets another... Latson should be on the first team.
I don’t know, the online reaction to their initial release threatened a revolt (metaphorically); so sometimes the threat is all that’s necessary.
It depends on what numbers you’re looking at. For arguments sake let’s take Betts out of the equation. She’s a true Big who’s got better numbers when it comes to shooting percentage, rebounds and blocks.
I AGREE with ROWDY831... Morrow is a BEAST! LSU would be NOWHERE this
If you’re going to select a 5 player AA team, then select a 5 player AA team. But the incompetence of the Athletic is staggering. Either they didn’t count up the votes correctly, or they realized that they screwed up by not selecting Paige as one of their 5 AA’s and decided to flip Paige and Latson after the fact. Sports journalism at its worst.
I agree with everything you pointed out. You can add that Paige is all these things despite being unselfish, and not taking too many shots (much to the chagrin of Geno, and her fans) to pad her stats.
