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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4883082, member: 3535"] I agree. You make good points. I want to say here I did not mean to give an iota of implication that what CC has done or the great players like Ionescu or Plum were not "admirable." They are all "folklore/legend" players too. I'll just mention again "bias" - which I admit I have. As a kid I saw "Earl The Pearl Monroe" take down my prior champ Knicks. Two years later Knicks won title and they had “Earl Monroe.” Monroe remarked in later years he knew it was Clyde Frazier's team when he joined, so he toned down his play to be the type of teammate the team needed him to be instead of "Earl The Pearl" despite having outplayed Clyde in the playoffs the year before he joined the Knicks. So, his stats dropped bigtime with the Knicks but we won it all because he chose to tone down his game rather than force himself out to continue to be "Earl The Pearl" and try to build from there (that would have been admirable too just like CC and SI was admiraable – Mays vs Aaron etc.)). SO, even as a young kid, I had always thought if you could tone down your game a bit maybe that can mean more rather than when Pistol Pete came into the NBA with his prolific scoring but lead his team nowhere. I do admire Pistol. I do admire CC and Ionescu. But while Monroe made the sacrifice to no longer be "Earl The Pearl," I'm not going to give CC and SI a complete pass for not winning it all when they knew from the start they wanted to be a version of "Earl The Pearl" instead .of teammate "Earl Monroe." So, give me the Diana Taurasi (note I’m referring to DT—not just any good or great player but specific DT) that wants to win being/ shown to be a hybrid Earl Monroe and Earl the Pearl while CC and SI wanted to also win but were far more restrictive in that they wanted to be exclusively Earl The Pearl. ****In 01-02 UCONN probably doesn’t win a title if DT was trying to be “Earl The Pearl” in which she missed every 3pt shot taken. Yet at the end of the game, UCONN gave her the ball late with game on the line and she made the biggest play of the game. Stats are important but so are titles is the point. [/QUOTE]

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