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Paige wins ROY

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MilfordHusky said:
70 out of 72 votes. 7th Husky to win ROY. Swin and Sue are in the HOF and did not win ROY.
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The other 6 are DT, Tina, Maya, Stewie, Pheesa & Crystal. Paige now adds to a resume that would overwhelm a Wikipedia editor. The best thing for WBB fans everywhere is that Paige’s career is not even halfway complete. Given good health, does anyone have any doubt that Paige will win an MVP or 2 or 3, several Olympic Gold Medals along with a few Olympic and WNBA championships before some day ending her playing career with a stop in Springfield, MA at the HOF?
 
oldude said:
The other 6 are DT, Tina, Maya, Stewie, Pheesa & Crystal. Paige now adds to a resume that would overwhelm a Wikipedia editor. The best thing for WBB fans everywhere is that Paige’s career is not even halfway complete. Given good health, does anyone have any doubt that Paige will win an MVP or 2 or 3, several Olympic Gold Medals along with a few Olympic and WNBA championships before some day ending her playing career with a stop in Springfield, MA at the HOF?
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I think Paige will have a great career. As one of the ROY articles notes, she is already one of the best players in the league. I think she clearly has MVP potential, but is still competing with A'ja, Phee, Caitlin, and AT. Plus her team is weak. MVP is hard to come by. Neither Sue nor Swin won ROY or MVP, and both easily made it to the HOF. I can see 2-3 Olympic Gold Medals and the HOF for Paige Buckets.
 
As for the 2 who voted for Citron (a really good player who had an excellent rookie season)

Paige- 19.2 PPG, 48%FG%, 33% from 3, 89% FT's, 4 RPG, 5.4 APG, 1.6 Steals
Sonia - 14.9 PPG, 47% FG%, 44% from 3, 87% FT's, 4 RPG, 2.4 APG, 1.3 steals

So on a better team with less defense focused on her, I guess the 2 voters gave Sonia ROY because... her 3 point % was better? Good grief. Even as a shorter guard, Paige's rebounding was essentially identical. Paige was #5 in scoring, Sonia #22 BTW. But yeah, Sonia is ROY?

Unless one really has an anti UConn or anti Paige bias, there is zero reason Sonia should have received any votes. And before you say "but Paige played a lot more minutes"... 33 per game vs. 32 per game. Negligible.
 
They probably voted for Citron because of some combination of - she was clutch on multiple occasions, didn’t miss a game, led the league in 3pt% among those who had a meaningful number of 3pt FG attempts, and had lower expectations. I am not surprised it was not unanimous because there is always that one contrarian (someone voted for Angel Reese last season over Caitlin Clark) and it doesn’t really matter.

Congrats to Paige on a fantastic rookie season where she lived up to the high bar set for her despite, in my opinion, subpar coaching. Well certainly subpar in comparison to Geno!
 
EricLA said:
As for the 2 who voted for Citron (a really good player who had an excellent rookie season)

Paige- 19.2 PPG, 48%FG%, 33% from 3, 89% FT's, 4 RPG, 5.4 APG, 1.6 Steals
Sonia - 14.9 PPG, 47% FG%, 44% from 3, 87% FT's, 4 RPG, 2.4 APG, 1.3 steals

So on a better team with less defense focused on her, I guess the 2 voters gave Sonia ROY because... her 3 point % was better? Good grief. Even as a shorter guard, Paige's rebounding was essentially identical. Paige was #5 in scoring, Sonia #22 BTW. But yeah, Sonia is ROY?

Unless one really has an anti UConn or anti Paige bias, there is zero reason Sonia should have received any votes. And before you say "but Paige played a lot more minutes"... 33 per game vs. 32 per game. Negligible.
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There’s always some contrarian who rationalizes voting for someone else despite all evidence to the contrary. As a lifelong Yankee fan, I am still wondering who the one voter was out of 397 who did not vote for Derek Jeter for the HOF on the first ballot.
 
oldude said:
There’s always some contrarian who rationalizes voting for someone else despite all evidence to the contrary. As a lifelong Yankee fan, I am still wondering who the one voter was out of 397 who did not vote for Derek Jeter for the HOF on the first ballot.
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Yes, it happens. I remember reading about ( I wasn't around at the time) a NYC scribe who did not include Ted Williams in his top 25 American Leauge players for the MVP award. The year was probably in the late 1940's. Had he included him - even at #25, it would have provided #9 enough points to make him the top dog in the MVP race.
 
cordarone said:
As per a Yahoo article, media voting is anonymous and the league doesn't share the list of voters.
That being said, a certain former coach is an analyst on the ACC network, just sayin' 🫠
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Occam’s Razor.
 

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