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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 5077524, member: 3535"] As a Knick fan I noticed when they made the trade and got Dave Debuscherre they went small. And this has been a fact I’ve seen all my life is that you don’t need to be “big” just “big enough.” And we’ve seen for example 01-02 UCONN be great being small. We’ve seen SoCarl win with Wilson by going small. And we’ve recent history of UCONN being seconds away beating Iowa by being so small and we’ve seen Iowa be small and do well. In fact, I n 2022-2023 we saw small-ball Iowa beat huge -height SoCar. And what was 1 of the most important factors that won it for Iowa but lost for SoCar? The fundamental skills of “shooting.” This is the type of factor that Geno’s Offenses’ feature; [B]fundamentals of basketball.[/B] And within those fundamentals we can easily see and I emphasize the word “easily” – that Geno’s teams follow the simple path of g/f/c. It’s easily explained that Paige was a forward. It’s easily explained that Aaliyah was the Center. So, why concoct some different flavor when the existing one easily fits? If the pattern is easily seen g/f/c which we can see from Paige and Aaliyah then why pretend it can only be used as "back then" but not now? It fits "now" too. As far as Paige, she has been criticized on this site by a few for not winning a championship and implications that she hasn’t been super-great. Anyone can easily google “The Boneyard Passive Paige” and then click on that thread and see unwarranted criticism for a Husky All-time great. And this also follows the path for those that don’t recognize her versatility greatness in which she played the Forward spot. This is just more of not enough respect (or appreciation is maybe a better word) as to how great she is because we know Geno and even this current era values versatility a great deal. The beauty and ease which Paige has highlighted this should only be an additional hammer of acknowledged greatness instead her versatility isn’t highlighted as much as it should. How can anyone say it is highlighted if they don’t believe that she played Forward and how this current era values versatility? And what explains her versatility is the simple g/f/c. If this era and Geno value versatility so much and the g/f/c descriptions/definitions easily explain/showcase Paige’s style of play fitting so easily among these categories, then why fight it? This fits perfectly in what Geno does and it easily fits this era. [B]What has to be recognized is that in today's basketball is that a Forward can be everything from a Point Guard (i.e a point-forward) or a "Power Forward" that does most of their work inside. This is the eptiomy of Geno's type of style. I.E. A Forward can be near anything with versatility meaning near everything from creator of offense to offensive rebounder. That's a ful spectrum. That's a modern era spectrum. A Geno spectrum. How is it that we can't say that Paige wasn't some of this? Her versatitlity as a g/f should be acknowledged as part of her greatness. Not just "as a guard." [/B] [/QUOTE]

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