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Message: [QUOTE="Orangutan, post: 3262238, member: 4946"] Among 9 Lynx players who play greater than 15 mpg and have played greater than 10 games - Collier is 7th in FGA/40 minutes. Among Lynx starters, she has to be considered no more than a 3rd option behind Fowles and Sims. It's just really hard to compare Ogunbowale and Collier directly because they are totally different players being asked to play in totally different roles. Collier is a swiss army knife who does everything well and can afford to pick her spots offensively given the composition of her team. Importantly, she picks them very well and thus makes a meaningful scoring contribution in addition to her defense, rebounding, etc. Arike is primarily a scorer and she's being asked to carry the load for Dallas as both their lead scorer and distributor. There's a much, much greater offensive burden on her shoulders and she's generally handled it well after a sometimes rocky start to the season (e.g. 2 for 23). Her defense is more of a work-in-progress compare to Collier's already standout D. It's truly shame that there aren't two awards. Both have been outstanding. The one deciding edge Collier may have is that she's been more consistent. If it were post-break only, I'd probably go for Arike, but Pheesa has been good since day 1 whereas it took Arike a little time to adjust. (Ok, these two posts constitute my well-considered thoughts on the matter. I now return to memes, sarcasm, and homerism.) [/QUOTE]