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Message: [QUOTE="Buzzyboy, post: 2014865, member: 1364"] For Geno to throw out that DT could have scored 30 plus every game, it's just something he would say to note how special DT is, AFTER THE FACT. While she was playing, his praise wasn't as obvious and that's common with all his very special players. Do you think he really believes that she could score 30 points a game? In his system? No way! In some games she would but when she was having a bad shooting night (and she had them), she would have had to jack up a massive amount of shots to do so and do you think that he would have appreciated that. You could just use the fact that someone mentioned the other day about the record for most consecutive games with double digit scoring for the Huskies and guess WHO DIDN'T HAVE IT? DT did not have it so she obviously had games where she didn't light it up though I'm sure she contributed in some other way. I'm not saying she wasn't (or isn't) a great player but I think there's more than a few people who have a bit of a distorted opinion of her and think she has a Big S on her tee shirt beneath her team uniform. You're talking of the mediocre players that DT had? Is that what you'd call them? There are people on this board that have raved about the contributions of Maria Conlon often and Anne Strother and Barbara Turner weren't exactly chopped liver, were they? Didn't Wilnett Crockett save the day and allowed UConn to overcome and escape a UCLA win to enable them to win that championship when DT had another OFF Night. You can't have it both ways regarding Maria Conlon. The level of talent in 2003, 2004 throughout women's basketball wasn't nearly what it is today. How many special teams did you have in that era? Do you know what people now say about the New England Patriots? They talk this year about the fact that though Tom Brady is supposed to be so great, that more credit should go to the system that Bill Bellechik has put in place because when Brady was suspended the first four games, they still won 3 games without him against teams that were good enough that some thought they'd go 1-3 instead. Even then, the game they lost was primarily because their backup quarterback was hurt and their third string quarterback, a rookie, was playing with a torn ligament on his throwing hand. Maybe it's more the UConn system under Geno that should be given the credit for those championship seasons in DT's junior and senior year than DT's GREATNESS. Again, no one is saying she's not a great player but to the extent that she's the BOAT is based on her winning those two championships, after the TAASK class graduated. What about this years team that may win it all and actually go undefeated after losing the new 1, 2 and 3 players drafted by the WNBA???? Did either of her teams (after TAASK left) go undefeated or even close to it? I do not consider DT better than Stewie nor do I think she's better than Maya! I know there are a number of people who don't agree but I do believe there are others who support my view, thinking that either or both might actually be better than her. It isn't being disparaging because all three are special players in their own right. The only thing I'll concede is that DT is the most cocky (and probably arrogant) of the three. [/QUOTE]

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