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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 5154627, member: 1673"] Despite being what many considered to be the best player ever (at least at the time), despite having a better winning percentage than all our other Rushmore candidates, despite scoring 36 points, UConn lost the last game of M. Moore’s career. Her supporting class was high caliber enough. They in fact beat that same ND team in the BE final, with Moore declaring that the precocious Dolson should have been awarded the MVP of that tournament instead of her. And Hartley had shown her mettle against Baylor and other key games. This in addition to upperclassmen like Hayes. Yet Dolson and Hartley still were just freshmen, prone to relying on the greatness of Moore. In the UConn system everyone needs to do their part, particukarly since everyone is talented. Bueckers can score 11 points and the team performs well, or 30 points and the team loses. To my eyes there have been games that suffered from the “Moore syndrome,” relying on one’s greatness rather than being a fully invested part of it. One advantage I believe Bueckers has over Moore is that her position calls for getting others more involved, but the others still have to be fully invested, not just Strong. This investment of the whole, not the performance of the one, will determine whether the team will go further than they did in the great M. Moore’s last UConn game. [/QUOTE]