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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5077094, member: 12088"] And yet Geno listed her as a forward. Nothing we decide here will limit Paige in any way. It’s only ourselves and our own thinking that we can limit. And you’re right that we can definitely communicate with each other using that terminology. It’s wonderfully arcane: 4/5, stretch-4, point-forward, and so on. I’m merely saying that it doesn’t quite capture the reality Geno puts on the court. Me too. I grew up in northern New Jersey, shooting hoops in my neighbor’s driveway and dreaming of our favorite players. Willis, Clyde, DeBuschere, Dick Barnett, Earl the Pearl. I spent weeks trying to master that backspin where Earl pulled the ball after him. Sadly, my hands weren’t as large as his. The terminology you favor suited the game as it was back then. Centers played primarily in the low post. They were rim protectors, fierce rebounders, scored in the paint almost exclusively. And then we saw a generation of players who didn’t exactly fit that terminology. Dirk Nowitzki, for example. Or Magic and Bird. But we tweaked the labels and made them work. We could talk about our favorite players, and maybe we were even a little tickled to think that our heroes couldn’t be captured by a simple label. I don’t want to steal anyone’s pleasure here. Paige definitely exceeds the semantic power of that terminology and we’ll need a new tweak for her, as we did for Stewie. Sarah and Jana maybe too. [/QUOTE]