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Looks like the “Gun Club” is working out……🤠

There were a couple games to start the WNBA season off at the end of May and there will be a couple games to wrap the season up at the beginning of September. In the middle, there were 3 full months of basketball in June, July & August, during which Paige was named the Rookie of the Month for...

I agree that Betts is the best Big in the draft. What is difficult to determine is whether or not she can be a dominant post in the W, where there’s a bunch of 6’5 - 6’8” posts. Griner, Jonquil Jones, Charles, Wilson, Boston and others are all bigs who are mobile and effective. My view on...

You raise an interesting and currently unanswerable question. So long as the new CBA is not final, we have no idea how the new salary cap will impact players and player movement.

Here’s the thing. On UConn WBB multiple players handle the ball, pass and cut. Geno will run his offense through any number of players on the court at anytime. That’s what makes UConn nearly impossible to defend. The traditional concept of having a single point guard on the floor to initiate...

The idea that Dallas might “core” Arike and then trade her seems unlikely. With so many free agents in the W this coming season, it’s hard to imagine that any team would trade an asset to the Wings for Arike on a one year Supermax contract, only to lose her the following season. It would make...

I would suggest a slight modification to the idea that, “minutes are earned during practice.” I think it’s clear that players earn the opportunity to play during practice. But their actual performance in games determines whether they continue to play meaningful minutes in games or not...

We disagree on this. The Wade Trophy is selected by the WBCA. It has been around far longer than the Naismith Award for women, which is chosen by a group of sportswriters.

Paige also won the 2025 Honda Award as the top women’s basketball player in the country along with the Wade & Lieberman Awards. It is worth noting that most of the POY Awards that were voted on before the postseason went to Watkins, and most that were voted on during or after the post season...

Duo? UConn had no less than 5 players on their team who played pg in HS, and were capable of initiating the offense this past season, 6 if you count Sarah. The others were Paige, Kaitlyn, KK, Ash & Allie. For opposing teams it was “death by a thousand point guards.” 😎

I am reminded of one of the most lopsided trades in the history of the NFL when Dallas traded Hershel Walker to the Vikings for what turned out to be 5 players who subsequently fueled several of the Cowboys championship runs.

I just came across an article that quoted incoming Oklahoma super recruit Aaliyah Chavez who, “guaranteed an Elite 8 appearance by the Sooners this coming season.” While that is one more round than this past year when Paige put up 40 pts in sending OK home during the Sweet 16 round, it hardly...

Stop it, please. Dallas is getting beaten up by teams with star centers and frontcourt depth, when they have none. Dallas played a Dream team with 2 legitimate centers, Griner & Jones who dominated in the paint, where the Wings were attempting to guard them with a 6’3” PF or a 6’2” wing. When...

Blanca first opened up to being recruited by US colleges in April 2023. UConn was on to her almost immediately, got her in for an early visit and she verbally committed to UConn just 6 months later in October of 2023, two full years before she will play her first game in Storrs. The...

Geno’s biggest challenge for his top players (Paige, Sarah, etc.) is to get them to be “selfish” when the game requires them to take over. Fortunately, he convinced both Paige and Sarah to do just that during UConn’s amazing run to championship #12.