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nwhoopfan said:
Can I jinx AT by saying she almost has a triple double at halftime? Not even playing in the game you might be referencing.
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Considering it's not the Valkyries, I think I can post this without getting yelled at (virtually) by @TheFarmFan 😉 ☺️
 
nwhoopfan said:
Can I jinx AT by saying she almost has a triple double at halftime? Not even playing in the game you might be referencing.
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Mack is sooooo good defensively and a lock for the Kia Stokes missed layup trophy. If only we could get Mack and Breezy on.the floor at the same time. That's an offensive show worth the price of admission.

OMG Breezy hits the lay up with 5 minutes remaining!!!!! The Fighting Irish fan goes crazy To bad Mack was on the bench

Best play of the game, third quarter Sammie pushes Sims and I mean shoves her on the way to the rim. Even the Phoenix appointments couldn't believe the no call. Another consequence of playing with the very physical AT, the refs let kiddos play. I mean, AT would foul out of every game if her 'contact" was called. AT makes Mabry look like a finesse player.

That said a great player. She and Wilson deserve co MVP.

Oh, the likeable and wealthy Merc coach and his squad defend the home court.
 
If I was a betting man, I wouldn't put a penny on the Liberty. They aren't right, and haven't been for a LONG time. Might put a penny, but not much more on the Fever.
 
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azfan said:
the very physical AT, the refs let kiddos play. I mean, AT would foul out of every game if her 'contact" was called
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Thank you! I've been saying this most of her career. It's ludicrous. What's worse is most of the time she commits a blatantly obvious offensive foul by plowing thru another player, her victim gets called for a blocking foul.
 
My jinx worked, sort of. Phoenix won, but AT finished 1 rebound and 1 assist shy of a triple double. She was so close at the half, I'm pretty shocked she didn't get there.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Can I jinx AT by saying she almost has a triple double at halftime? Not even playing in the game you might be referencing.
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nwhoopfan said:
My jinx worked, sort of. Phoenix won, but AT finished 1 rebound and 1 assist shy of a triple double. She was so close at the half, I'm pretty shocked she didn't get there.
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Thank you for your service, sir. We gotta keep it in the West Coast fam, and after the Merc beat us 4 times, I'll take every petty stat I can get.
 
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Wow, there’s a three-way tie for second place right now.
 
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Yeah the imbalanced officiating of physical play really irked me in the Fever @ Mercury game last night, but it is what it is.

I also wonder what the record is for these East Coast teams that have to travel to the West Coast and play games at 10 PM EST. I have an inkling of a suspicion that West Coast teams have a disproportionate amount of wins due to the time of game play. I think it would be much harder to play a game at the time you're usually thinking about going to bed, but alas that is the life of a sports professional and they must overcome it. West Coast teams don't have the same issue when traveling to the East Coast.
 
GamecockFam said:
Yeah the imbalanced officiating of physical play really irked me in the Fever @ Mercury game last night, but it is what it is.

I also wonder what the record is for these East Coast teams that have to travel to the West Coast and play games at 10 PM EST. I have an inkling of a suspicion that West Coast teams have a disproportionate amount of wins due to the time of game play. I think it would be much harder to play a game at the time you're usually thinking about going to bed, but alas that is the life of a sports professional and they must overcome it. West Coast teams don't have the same issue when traveling to the East Coast.
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Yes but: Golden State's worst loss of the season was a 10am PDT Sunday start in Incasville after finishing around 12:45 am EDT Saturday morning in San Francisco. So it definitely cuts both ways.

As for the reffing in Merc games, I think they're the team that gets away with the most unwarranted contact across the entire league. And let's be honest: AT has the most aggressive elbows I've ever seen in the W.
 
TheFarmFan said:
Yes but: Golden State's worst loss of the season was a 10am PDT Sunday start in Incasville after finishing around 12:45 am EDT Saturday morning in San Francisco. So it definitely cuts both ways.

As for the reffing in Merc games, I think they're the team that gets away with the most unwarranted contact across the entire league. And let's be honest: AT has the most aggressive elbows I've ever seen in the W.
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Don't know if I agree. I would much rather play at 10 am than 10 pm, but that is probably preferential. I am a morning person after all. 😆

I would think that it would be much harder to stay mentally active at 11:30 pm in the 4th quarter. At least with morning games you can wake your body up through the game play.
 
GamecockFam said:
Don't know if I agree. I would much rather play at 10 am than 10 pm, but that is probably preferential. I am a morning person after all. 😆

I would think that it would be much harder to stay mentally active at 11:30 pm in the 4th quarter. At least with morning games you can wake your body up through the game play.
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But I think you're overlooking the time difference and the impact on their internal body clocks into your scenario. Being three hours behind, plus playing on short rest, will have some impact.

This topic comes up every year during the NFL season with west coast teams playing 1 pm games on the east coast. There seems to be some logic to the theory based on some of the studies the networks have reviewed during their pre-game shows.
 
cancontent said:
But I think you're overlooking the time difference and the impact on their internal body clocks into your scenario. Being three hours behind, plus playing on short rest, will have some impact.

This topic comes up every year during the NFL season with west coast teams playing 1 pm games on the east coast. There seems to be some logic to the theory based on some of the studies the networks have reviewed during their pre-game shows.
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I don't think I did. IMO internal body clocks would be more impacted by playing games past ones bedtime vs the morning time when most people are awake. I definitely agree that both scenarios would cause impacts due to playing outside of norms, but I think it would be disproportionate impacts to East teama travelling west to play past bedtimes. At least West teams playing on the east coast at 10 AM their local time would have been awake at that hour on their coast.

As far as other impacts, I'm chalking that up to bad scheduling. I consider that a different category but I agree that shorter recovery time leads to issues no matter the scenario. As a fan, I really dislike these back-to-back games and how they affect the outcome of the game.
 
TheFarmFan said:
Yes but: Golden State's worst loss of the season was a 10am PDT Sunday start in Incasville after finishing around 12:45 am EDT Saturday morning in San Francisco. So it definitely cuts both ways.

As for the reffing in Merc games, I think they're the team that gets away with the most unwarranted contact across the entire league. And let's be honest: AT has the most aggressive elbows I've ever seen in the W.
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I think the lost to the wings is worse
 
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GamecockFam said:
Don't know if I agree. I would much rather play at 10 am than 10 pm, but that is probably preferential. I am a morning person after all. 😆

I would think that it would be much harder to stay mentally active at 11:30 pm in the 4th quarter. At least with morning games you can wake your body up through the game play.
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Except the Liberty have been on the West Coast since Friday, so their body clocks should be fully adjusted by Tuesday evening (general rule is an hour adjustment per day). I get your theory as a theory but in practice it really shouldn't apply here, and I can assure you when you take a red eye that leaves at 3+ am EDT on a Saturday (right after a game), waking up at 7 am EDT Sunday to warm up for a game doesn't feel any better than staying up until 11:30 EDT five days after going west.

And in any event, the Liberty outscored us after half time, so the eye test also didn't suggest they wilted at that "late" hour.
 
TheFarmFan said:
Except the Liberty have been on the West Coast since Friday, so their body clocks should be fully adjusted by Tuesday evening (general rule is an hour adjustment per day). I get your theory as a theory but in practice it really shouldn't apply here, and I can assure you when you take a red eye that leaves at 3+ am EDT on a Saturday (right after a game), waking up at 7 am EDT Sunday to warm up for a game doesn't feel any better than staying up until 11:30 EDT five days after going west.

And in any event, the Liberty outscored us after half time, so the eye test also didn't suggest they wilted at that "late" hour.
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FarmFan, you are absolutely correct regarding the red-eye scenario. I would suggest to everyone posting on this topic, that it is more than just the change in a player's body clock (i.e., do they feel like it is either still morning or still evening to them) that can effect performance.

Another significant component of the "jet lag" effect, which further underscores the goofiness of the WNBA scheduling, is that when a person is on a 5.5 hour flight from East Coast to West Coast (or 4.5 hour from West to East flying in the jet stream) his/her body is breathing air regulated at approximately 6.5K feet of pressure altitude for all but about an hour of the flight. A body, especially a professional (or collegiate) athlete, needs time to acclimate and adjust in order to optimally perform.

Bottom line: WNBA scheduling is bonkers. Any team who flies x-country the day before playing is set up for poor performance, if not abject failure. Adding at least one full day of travel-time should be a hard line in the new CBA.
 
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How much do I love women's basketball. Well I'm watching the Sky and Sun..lol

I did get to see history made as Tina became the all time made field goal leader surpassing the goat.

And while Cardosa is having fun one would wonder why a Merc fan would watch this....
 
No Allisha Gray, no problem for the Dream. Still lighting up the Sparks. I would say defense is optional for LA, but it isn't even optional, it's strictly not used. At all. Against anybody.
 
Well LA didn't give up nearly as many points in the second half, but didn't really gain any ground after being down 12 at the half.

Meanwhile Connecticut had a chance to gain a firm grip on #10...but instead got blown out by 24 by Chicago and are now 1/2 game behind the Sky.
 
Angel Reese picked up a technical and hit the magic number for the season, she'll have to sit out their next game.
 
GamecockFam said:
It's gotta be such a tricky balance of continuing Phee's campaign for MVP and not messing up the team chemistry by resting starters for too long. Since they have the #1 overall seed on lockdown I expect starters will play less minutes than usual but I think they need to get 20 minutes to stay in game shape and keep team chemistry.
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the 4-4 from three moved her closer to 50-40-90.... there's that!
 
nwhoopfan said:
Angel Reese picked up a technical and hit the magic number for the season, she'll have to sit out their next game.
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Unless the league pulls the tech, which is doubtful, but you never know.
 
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