She can? IMO she killed them at the end of this game. Yeah she can shoot but her lack of mobility is crippling trying to play defense against a team like the Aces. Plus they had zero rebounding at the end of this game. Are there no out of work post players the Wings can add to their roster. Lack of height is really hurting their post play.
Didn't see it but per the box score, after being down 11, the Aces go on a 17-2 run to win the game with 14 of the 17 points coming off FTs. Seems like a strange finish to an otherwise solid game.
Well, there's a quite a bit to unpack there:
We've all known that for several years, yet they do nothing. Last night they had Stokes and Kitley starting...and nothing off the bench. Joyner Holmes didn't play, but she's hardly a decent option anyway. That's all they have for a front court w/ Wilson out of the line up.
At this point, they'll probably just wait to until the rosters around the league blow up to reconstruct the bench and parts of that frontcourt. Hammons will give newbies a try for 10 minutes, then put them back on the bench after a cursory look. That's just her modus operandi with new(er) talent.
Dallas, when they got up 11, took the air out of the ball and completely changed the pace of the game to run the clock down. When you have a team that's this inept offensively, led by a coach, who is even more inept that the offense, this is what you get. Add to the fact that they can't guard a dead person or get a rebound, you have this. All of their turnovers(or seemingly) were on hand offs in the back court early in the shot clock Their offense has 0 movement and 0 screening action to get players open. Paige brings the ball up and just gets blitzed because nobody moves and the ball just sticks.
Nye really seems to be bucking that trend.
So true. The Aces have had a few years to figure things out with their roster and they keep kicking the can down the road. I also had questions about their skill development. I know they work on shooting in practice. Hopefully they are having talks about what is a good shot vs bad shot. So many times, in that game last night. It looked like the players on the Aces were like "I am going to shoot this shot because I can". Just very questionable shot selection in crucial moments of the game. Lucky they were playing the Wings and not the Lynx or the Liberty.
Dillon, I completely agree: Geiselhoder has been a nice surprise - and not just showing a lot of skill but also a lot of BB smarts. Even more impressively, she is hustling her butt off on the court. The defense on Jackie Young a couple of minutes into the fourth (when LG was called for a completely bogus foul on JY's three point shot) was an illustration of such hustle. During last night's disastrous 4th quarter, she was the lone bright star for the Wings (and my assessment includes Paige), scoring 6 points on 3-3 shooting.
I definitely did that! Coffee, bagel, berries, JY0. A bigger test awaits on Sunday, but she's another big-time performance from earning Western Conference Player of the Week and inserting herself into MVP discussions.
Probably the worst 75 seconds of basketball Paige has ever played - three fouls and two TOs. No doubt she will use her incredible self introspection skills to turn the lemons into lemonade.
