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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5080575, member: 12088"] Technically, I asked if Paige was what an SG is, not whether she’s an SG. There’s a difference. The implication should have been obvious: Paige is a selective-effective scorer. I’ve mentioned this dozens of times in recent years (ie the Paige era), namely that bucket does more than just score. A bucket is like a guarantee. When you need a score, or when the opponent is emotionally struggling, a bucket steps up. That’s Paige. And it would be fair to say that Dawn’s comment doesn’t sum Paige up. But is a salient feature of her game. A player who is that selective is not my notion of an SG. They are a bucket. When I hinted at this last time, you took me to mean Azzi would have license to actively choose bad shots. I think that was a distortion of what I meant or could have meant. An SG these days is someone who is always ready to fire from outside. This doesn’t mean they can drive to the hoop, and we all know Azzi is awesome on the drive. But she is very good at making herself ready, and Geno designs plays to get her the pass that she can shoot on. That’s what an SG is. Paige isn’t somehow less than an SG, which you seemed to be suggesting. She’s much more. Azzi is also more than that simple definition of an SG, but it just seems more marked. And now we’re here again, finding the limits of the usefulness of that old terminology. Do we have SGs? Yes. Q for one, Ash for another. Allie may cover some of that turf, too. But to call Paige that would be to miss what she really is entirely: a bucket. [/QUOTE]

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