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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 4267679, member: 2962"] Yeah, elite teams definitely need a go-to scorer ... and two who can do it would be even better. That is just so obvious to anyone who follows basketball at all that the idea that watching Paige/Azzi in an Elite Eight game is some kind of revelation is, well, what led to my original post. Hurley knows it as well as anyone, that has been his formula for success as a coach since he started -- Rivers/Murray at Wagner, Matthews/Terrell at URI and then Adams/Vital, Vital/Bouk and Bouk/Cole at UConn. He has said that this season's roster construction was not ideal for various reasons that have been explained ad nauseam on this board and it's not like he was turning down the idea of having two amazing go-to scorers because he doesn't believe in the concept. I've actually been trying to think of a good Paige men's college comp the past few days and keep coming back to a kind of player who doesn't really exist in the men's game anymore: The 6-foot-3 ball-dominant late-90s All-America level combo guard. Guys like Shawn Respert, Randolph Childress, a little bit Chauncey Billups (an NBA success, obviously) -- and Jay Williams as perhaps the last real star version of this player. Ball-dominant combo guards who could mid-range you to death or find the open man -- but the NBA decided they weren't pure point guards and were two small to play the 2, so that player eventually mostly disappeared from the college game. [/QUOTE]