How about the IQ for her game that made every movement seem quicker and seamless? Check.
And that indescribable thing that makes a great player a great winner, check that one, too.
"High school, college, Olympics, any European team she was on," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said, "from the very first time she's stepped on the court with a team, the minute she walks in the gym it takes on her personality. There's a quality you have to have to be like that, and I guess you're born with it."
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Taurasi, 42, closed the book on her long career that bridged the days when women's basketball was starving for coverage of any kind to the present day, when it has become part of the world's daily sports diet. She completed 20 seasons with the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, where she helped win three championships, which followed three consecutive national titles at UConn. Along the way, she helped USA Basketball win six Olympic Gold Medals.
Wherever she went, she would command the attention, even if she preferred her privacy away from the arena. Wherever she went, there would be a great team, because she would stand for nothing less. Terms like "generational player" are thrown around too easily nowadays, but D.T. was that kind of player -- for an entire generation, and more.
"As long as I've basically been alive she's been playing," UConn star Paige Bueckers said. "Playing at UConn, playing in The W, the Olympics, the ultimate winner. A great role model for people to look up to, it's crazy."
That Taurasi's decision officially came in an interview with Time Magazine is, perhaps, indicative how high she has helped lift women's basketball and the degree to which she has transcended it. The UConn women have a fairly important game against Creighton on Thursday, a chance to nail down another Big East regular season title, but the conversation on Tuesday was about Taurasi, who last played in 2004. One of UConn's own, one of the all-time greats, was stepping away.
"Their drive," Auriemma said, when asked what separates the greatest. "If you take into consideration they were all born with the talent, that God-given ability, but not all of those people have the drive, the commitment, the competitiveness, the will to win always. So the greatest are the most talented, the most driven, and they are the smartest. Brighter than anyone else, know the game better than anyone else."
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And all of it was evident for Auriemma the first time he saw her play at a tournament in her native California.
"In high school, there was a tournament where she had to play three games in three days," Auriemma said. "And she either tied the game or won the game with the last shot in every one of those games. So you already knew, when there's a moment the game has to be decided, she owns that moment."
In 2000, Taurasi came to UConn, joining a team that included Sue Bird, Asjha Jones, Svetlana Abrosimova, Swin Cash, Shea Ralph and Tamika Williams, coming off a national championship.
"She walked in the gym, first day of practice, second day, third day, they knew right away this was the best player in the gym every day," Auriemma said. "She had a lot of Sarah Strong in her, she didn't want to show that every minute of every day, every day. She was deferential to those guys because they'd won a national championship and she had not won anything. But they all knew, and we all knew, there was something different about this kid."
By the time she left UConn, Taurasi had 2,156 points, 628 rebounds, 648 assists, but those numbers are what she accumulated. What mattered, she won three championships herself, carrying a younger team to the title in 2004, her dominant performances in the biggest of games are her legacy at UConn.
She was at her best when the going got rougher and tougher. Once, Auriemma recalled, she was fighting for a rebound against Tennessee, cradling the ball with her left arm and fighting off an opponent who was tangled up with her right. Her coach remembers well the smile on her face.
"The fight, the struggle, she didn't complain about it," Auriemma said "She embraced it. ... We were playing Arizona one year and we knew they were the most physical team we'd play. So we put her in the lane, and she must have got 20 free throws, some ridiculous number. You could put her anywhere on the floor and she would be the best player at that position in the country."
The pro game, Euro basketball, the Olympics, none of it stopped, or slowed Taurasi, even as she passed 40.
It was evident at the end of last season that Taurasi was going to call it a career, the "if this is it" ceremony created to build some suspense. But Auriemma was out in Phoenix for what everyone expected to be her final game. She is the WNBA's all-time leading scorer, by a lot, but she still averaged 14.9 points per game last season. D.T. was not beaten by Father Time, either; she told him when it was time.
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So what comes now? She has vowed not to pull "a Tom Brady" and come back, or tease comebacks. Auriemma can't see her playing, even for fun, but more likely she will be like the legendary musician who never picks up the violin again. He doesn't see her coaching.
"I do think there is some basketball, off-the-court related things she's probably going to get involved in," Auriemma said. "Being on TV and talking about what the game should look like, or owning a team and deciding, 'this is how the game is supposed to look,' a Pat Riley kind of thing, because she is that smart, that respected, that committed to winning."