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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4749790, member: 3834"] So, if Clark gets injured twice this year will she also become a “potential superstar with injury history?” If I recall correctly, the “goat“ pg (Sue) could also have been labeled as having an injury history yet had an extremely long and successful career in the pros. The truth is, there’s no reliable way of predicting this kind of thing. Paige could play 12 more years and never suffer another injury or Clark could suffer a career ending injury tomorrow (God forbid)! Sure, there are [B]some[/B] instances where it is clear that a long career is doubtful, Morgan Tuck for example, but that’s because she had a clearly identifiable problem, (cartilage issues in her knee) that could be clearly IDed as likely to recur. Bill Walton, whose surgeon once compared the bones in his feet to ”peanut butter” was another example of a generational talent whose body was obviously not going to hold up for a long career. Our own Brittany Hunter was another supreme talent whose body betrayed her, though, to be fair, I believe her issue may have been a botched surgical procedure. Paige, as far as I can tell, has no such problem. If I were drafting,I would definitely choose Paige over Clark as long as my medical staff found no chronic issues. Clark is great, she excites the fans with 35 ft threes but I believe Paige is simply a better player overall. Admittedly, you really couldn’t go wrong with either of them, but imo, the material reason why anyone would choose Clark over Paige, is the injury thing. I believe if Paige had never suffered an injury, there would be no debate. So, really it comes down to whether you believe that Paige‘s two injuries were a result of some congenital weakness in her body or were rather freak injuries that simply happened. [/QUOTE]

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