I shoulda put a smiley on my comment. I agree with you that they've really benefitted from having a true point guard on the floor and figuring out how to get McCowan involved.
When she was at MSSt, McCowan was in good shape. She played 35+ minutes in big games. I saw some folks talking about her jogging up the court, but that was always on offense. Nobody plays for Vic lollygagging up the court on defense, and T never did. Whether it's the case now, I dunno, but she's played effectively for 30+ minutes in a few games recently.
Yes, Bigboote, it was a clutch shot by KLS... nice to see her coach had the confidence in her to take that shot.
On choosing the Aces bench. In the off-season, the Aces lost their entire coaching staff, their GM, and Becky was coaching in the NBA up until right before training camp started. The newly hired President was Nikki Fargas. From the looks of the draft picks, she’s the one who picked them. #7 Mya Hollingshed (Colorado) CUT, #11 Bell, #13 Khalsa Pointer (LSU) CUT, and #23 Aisha Sheppard, and then another LSU girl was the last pick. Surely they have to strengthen the bench for next year. That’s a pretty deep draft class too so maybe they will at least be able to help. Hopefully it will improve for next year.
Fine by me. I love watching her play.
Yes they did and when I saw who they picked I couldn't believe it. Next year's draft is deep, deep so I think they'll be able to pick up some pieces anyway but whoever was in charge this year should have been fired....or maybe there was no one in charge.
Yup, I couldn’t believe they did that given the increased comparative talent of the 2023 draft.
Obviously, I am on the "Copper train" (represents my home town well) as well, as I have previously mentioned her season's progress multiple times on your other WNBA thread. This does make Chicago imposing, especially with their bench play of Stevens, Gardner, & Allemand. Nonetheless, I will still "buy low" on the Aces with their recent skid and say they will overcome their defensive regression, lack of bench, not having home court advantage nor momentum, and predict they will overcome this for the 1st title in LV.
As you previously stated, Fargas was in charge. She did draft her niece (KP) and Aifuwa from her LSU team.
Criticizing the Hollingshed pick at #8 is definitely not a case of hindsight is 20/20. No major publication's mock draft had her in the 1st round and I just found one that projected her #27 (many did not go beyond round 1). Unbelievable.
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Should be very interesting, indeed. As you and I have discussed, I think she should keep the lead/point guard duties to Burton/Harris and rotate Marike and Gray in the other two slots.
I think Stewie, A'ja, Plum are locks for first team. You could go make an argument for A. Thomas, SDD, Nneka, EDD, Ionescu, Arike in the other two spots (I'd say in that order), and I wouldn't be too upset.All-WNBA teams shifting to positionless format
All-WNBA teams, which previously consisted of two guards, two forwards and a center for the first and second teams, are moving to a positionless format.
I got Stewie, A'ja, Nneka, A Thomas, & Plum 1st team. Crazy not to include a member of the Sky, but their top 4 are so balanced. Speaking of Sky, I think she was up there for most of the year, but fell to 2nd team recently.
