Stewie and Jewell's All-Decade Women's College Hoops Team

[jonson]

Jewell as team captain is pretty funny because I'm not sure she cracks my top 3 Notre Dame guards of the decade (Skylar, Arike, McBride).

Overall, the team skews heavily towards the era Stewie and Jewell played in, unsurprisingly.

But then they do manage one pick of extreme recency bias in Sabally.

Someone (maybe @nwhoopfan) can dispute me on this, but I feel like it was only last season that Sabally became the most talked about non-Ionescu Duck. It feels like for most of their careers, there was more buzz around Hebard.

Now let's see Napheesa and Arike's all decade team so that we can have one that's heavily skewed towards the last half of the decade!

Re Sabally: Stewie's comment--"She’s got the potential to be a really dominant pro"--is basically a version of what's been said in Eugene since she arrived. Whatever her success as a freshman, sophomore, or junior, there's always been a sense that there's a lot more to come--with her improvement year after year, together with her work ethic and (sometimes) breathtaking honesty about her current limitations proof that she will indeed come very close to reaching her enormous potential. I think that's why she was #2 in the draft and, also, why she's on this team. Hebard is (I think) much closer to being the player she can be, and she was certainly the most important Duck after Ionescu during her time in Eugene (Graves often called her the team's most important player, with Ionescu the team's best basketball player, and Sabally its most physically talented). But the promise of the Sabally of the 2019-20 season seems to have proved difficult to overlook.

 

[MilfordHusky]

I also like the recognition. But as mentioned above, Napheesa trumps KML, and it isn't even close.

I would take Napheesa over Kaleena by a small margin. Phee scored 223 more points than Kaleena, who missed 12 games to a horrific elbow injury and mono. If not for the injury, Kaleena would have had just about Phee's 2,401 points. A lot of folks around here measure things by championships. Kaleena has 3, while Phee has 1.

 

[LCConnFan]

I also like the recognition. But as mentioned above, Napheesa trumps KML, and it isn't even close.

I have to agree with you on Phee. One obvious reason though was her defense. Phee was a more well-rounded player.

 

[LCConnFan]

I would take Napheesa over Kaleena by a small margin. Phee scored 223 more points than Kaleena, who missed 12 games to a horrific elbow injury and mono. If not for the injury, Kaleena would have had just about Phee's 2,401 points. A lot of folks around here measure things by championships. Kaleena has 3, while Phee has 1.

IMO can't measure this by championships though. You're only as good (or bad) as your team.

 

[MilfordHusky]

IMO can't measure this by championships though. You're only as good (or bad) as your team.

People rate Diana and Stewie over Maya based on championships.

 

[LCConnFan]

People rate Diana and Stewie over Maya based on championships.

Some things you just can't fix. Brianna Pulido had 3!

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I stayed away from this topic because I find these "celebrity selected lists" generally to have the look of contrived or silly. Having finally succumbed out of pure boredom, I find this exercise to have the look of both.

 

[Steelerone]

Who's better, Russell or Jabbar? Williams or Musial? Manning or Brees? Shall we have an eternal conversation today?

 

[CL82]

Best part...

Lol, Well played Stewie.