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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2119855, member: 199"] Digger - always enjoy your too infrequent posts! I would say there are also super star performances which can throw out of whack your three vs. two vs. four AA quality performance calculations. DT was such a player, Maya and Breanna as well, who could frequently compensate for other teammates who just played average and not up to AA quality in games. One player can throw those calculations off. But I agree with your assessment of this particular team and with many of the Uconn teams of the past - the UCLA coach made that point in her post game presser - Uconn almost always presents a unique challenge to their opponents in putting five players on the floor that can each perform at an AA level and so you have to defend the team and not one or two or even three players. And that they are all willing and able passers so they will find and enable one another. And I think the change from a count of AA quality performances to bringing [B]our [/B]A game is also part of the Uconn culture that is spreading through the coaching ranks - no one piece of the puzzle is more important than another. Gabby, Napheesa, and Lou are up for AA honors for the year, but without Kia or Saniya or Natalie, or Crystal, or Kyla, or Molly, or Tierney, or Azura, or Batouly they would be less than they are and less successful as individuals and less successful as a team. [/QUOTE]