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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4731137, member: 12088"] Thanks for the compliment, [USER=11559]@The deacon[/USER]. But I don't mean it as hyperbole. I only said she was comparable to the best. But back to the question: I have to say Paige when healthy has always had a really finely attuned sense of the moment on the court, a coach's sense. I can't think of another recent player in D1 WCBB who is this finely attuned. Even Caitlin and Hailey Van Lith and Grace Berger... I could go on. The closest recent player I can think of is Aari Macdonald but only in her senior year. It's really just a question how far to extend this praise. Now, I've watched a lot (A LOT) of videos of Paige's HS games -- Minnesota is a well developed market for televised HS sports -- and you can see the remarkable way she developed from 8th grade through senior year. it's really quite distinctive. The local NBA players even came to her games occasionally. I would include Diana, Maya and Sue as comparable players, to be sure. Cynthia Cooper, Katie Smith, Jewell Lloyd, Kelsey Plum, even Nancy Lieberman. Yes, all comparable. You can see I'm mainly focused not on bigs. In any event, that's why I said what I said. Paige belongs in this comparison group -- [B]mainly on potential, but also on the basis of the developmental curve lots of folks saw when she was in HS[/B]. And remember, Diana and Sue agree with me. [/QUOTE]