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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3204219, member: 9403"] Totally reasonable list of players, and agree, pretty underwhelming all things considered. Given the insane number of injuries and temporary absences, and the overlap with Eurobasket, it's not surprising that the numbers are worse and this entire pool of players feels kind of underwhelming: it feels like every three days a team is either working an just-off-an-injury player back into a starting role or else elevating a solid bench player into the role of a starter for someone who's injured. With so much flux on basically every top team, I would imagine it's hard to have enough time to get really comfortable running plays, developing intuitions about how your fellow players will move or react, or even just to develop team chemistry more generally. That coupled, with the really really short training and pre-season for the W means that almost no team is really settled almost halfway through the season. Those conditions are exactly what you'd expect would produce a lot of inconsistency from players and teams, night and day performances from game to game, and few truly impressive stats lines - which is exactly what's been happening. It's too bad, but IMHO, the quality of basketball has always been worse in the W vis-a-vis the talent teams have as compared to college WBB, and it's been especially pronounced this season.... Which is why I'm here and not whatever WNBA forum there is out there.... is there even one? [/QUOTE]

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