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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3973653, member: 1220"] She has been playing basketball professionally for 6 years and you don't think she is in shape. She is in as good of a shape as she is going to get. It a metabolism problem. Even at her physical level when she entered the league she was a liability on defense. Let me break it down for you using stats. At UConn she was a career .447 % 3 pt shooter. Thats really good but their are people who shot as well or better but did not have the advantage of playing for a loaded high profile team. . Even discounting her lack of quickness and defense her offensive game did not translate that well to the WNBA. At UConn there were many other elite player that the defense had to pay attention too.. That translated to a lot of open looks. Players are faster in the WNBA and close on shooters quicker. Catch and shoot players need a far quicker release and hers was not especially quick. Her 3 pt career shooting percentage in the WNBA was .337 %. It is more telling that in play off games it dropped to .125 %. and because of this she seldom even saw the floor. She was basically a spot player who they put in to see if she was hot or not. None of these percentages justified her even being on the team however the Storm took her as the second pick and teams have a tendency to keep their top picks longer than they should. Especially since the preseason is not long enough for any lower draft pick to show what they can do. It was her reputation alone that kept her in the league this long. It certainly was not her play as her stats shoe. There was an entire thread on this very subject a couple seasons ago. It is obvious that none of you ever even watched any of the games she played in for Seattle. I even remember a thread on the subject of how well her game would translate right after she was drafted by Seattle and it seems some of either do not read a lot of threads or you just have bad memories. [/QUOTE]

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