That's another thing. When it was unconfirmed that Sakura and Kushina were alike, people were raving on and on about how Hinata was similar in appearance to Kushina. Then comes Minato and his comment, and they're chucking the moment right out the window as if it means nothing. Sakura=Kushina means "girl like your mother".
I will never understand how NS isn't the most believable couple to some people. The need to constantly bring down their scenes baffles me and it'll only hurt the outsiders in the end when NS does in fact happen...
Thats just it, the pairing stuff was kept stable around pre- invasion of pain but once Hinata jumped in front of Naruto and once Sakura hugged Naruto in 450, the pairing wars would start escalating. Then we got the 457 bolster then the other crowds shoved 469 in our faces, then SS got hammered in the attempted killings during the reunion. Once Kushina appeared it became the pinnicale of this pairing war hinting that kishi did make good on what he said, at least one pairing in the end and half of that was Naruto, the other half would be a girl like Kushina. So for 2-3 years the fandoms debated over Kushina and what it meant. NS and NH said it mattered, the only thing both fandoms could agree on was that Kushinas words were important considering it was a foreshadow and everything else she said for Naruto to do had occured or was in the process of occurring. Well the only clues as to who was like Kushina was directly involved in her own past, her own past was very similar to Sakura and how she early on acted with Minato, Sakura did the same with Naruto. It was very simple. This was our reasoning aside from the similar scenes such as being rescued. Well 631 came out, the truth came to be from Minato seeing Sakura like Kushina, no matter how it was argued Sakura was the first girl, rather the first person to be compared to someone from Naruto's family, rather she is currently the only girl compared to Kushina. If Sakura is similar to Kushina then this means that perhaps Minato's statement was telling the reader, hint hint, Sakura may be with Naruto in the end, its simple. This revelation however, caused people to act like it was an impossibility, to some they treated this logic as harder to believe that Obito was tobi the whole time.
Now what has happened after 631? Great upheaval, rage, and confusion to those who thought Kishi was out of his mind for writing this comparing the "Oh so terrible Sakura who always abuses Naruto" to Kushina rather then "the perfect flawless Hinata who deserves him" This choice left so many divides and view points, some resorted to calling Kushina's words wrong, saying its a simple joke nothing important, another in the part of the red herring scheme of things, proves that NS would not work as it would be kushina kushina, say Minato was wrong, etc. Well even if it was just luck for Minato to see Naruto and Sakura there and ask Sakura if she was Narutos GF, Kishi could have written it in so many other ways but he himself chose to do things like this.
Now its that unless Minato had a time or even reason to see Hinata out individually, what would he honestly see in Hinata that reminds him of himself since the kushina one is taken? For Minato to obviously not know his own son being dead for 16 years, same for Hinata, he at least has a concept of his own son from the pain event, even then in that situation couldn't he have known Naruto's feelings for others if he could even know about Jiraya dying? Others just went down the parallels do not matter path while others still go on about Hinata being like Minato or Kushina despite nothing having been shown. There are at least notifications of Naruto being like Minato and Kushina, but the Minato one resurfaces more due to other characters so this gives reason to say the Minato one is dominant. Sakura is the only other one aside from Naruto to be compared to Kushina, at that the only girl compared to Kushina. So any other girls canonically being compared to Kushina aside from Sakura? No? Then we wait to see if this changes or not, even then, Minato compared Sakura to his own wife who he knew for many years before they were married, who he himself supported and knew her inside and out, who even died right behind her after having being exhuasted of chakra, being worn down by Obito, using the reaper seal on himself to ensure death, and getting that final blow from Kurama himself, a giant claw speared right through his back and stomach behind his wife who suffered the same fatal injury. If Minato did not understand Kushina, then I would be willing to give more credit to the claim so many have, but Minato knows his own wife, they were together for years before Naruto was born, if this is the case, Minato knows his wife and its safe to say, he sees Kushina in Sakura and even if its just an internal reminder, its that simple. He sees Kushina in Sakura, so what if Minato sees himself in Naruto as carrying on what he himself stood for?
Its simple, Sakura=Kushina but rather than this being a simple 1+1=2 event, people try to make it out to 2/0 in which you cannot divide by zero but people keep trying to find out why despite how simple the reason it cannot happen is.
Denial at its finest. Its comical seeing all of these arguments against NS. 
Hinata just got friendzoned. 
