100%. LA has a lot of talent along with a lot of volatile personalities or players with shortcomings and she is righting the ship after a rough start. She could definitely enter the MVP mix.
And sister Chiney looks as good as I can remember. All over the boards and plating with toughness and hitting the mid range as well
Disagree with this take. Chiney has been trending downward the last several years and this has probably been her worst year to date.
I really did not think of her early career but only more recently where she was invisible. The last 6 games (until the Mercury game, she has been really strong on the boards and looking dangerous in the post and mid range. She seems healthy and the NBA stuff I guess she is not spending time on so maybe can concentrate on her WNBA gig.
You can add Dewanna Bonner and Candace Parker to that list.
Not so much Parker anymore. Used to be the case in LA but she's seemed to calm down quite a bit in her demeanor with the refs.
I just said as much on another thread, TheFarmFan. Big Momma will get riled up occasionally, and lots of others will have their moments, but DT is in a class by herself among UConn grads for her comportment, which I'd say is often obnoxious (dropping the pretty).
I don't know about that one. This has been largely a disappointing season for DT but Skylar has been really impactful this season and is a huge reason why the Mercury isn't fighting for last place with the Fever.
Throw in Alyssa Thomas. Lol.
Chiney also hadn't played a full season in the WNBA since 2019. She sat out 2020, played only 7 games in 2021. So seems like she's starting to get her timing/feel back this year, but she has a specific role for the team off the bench.
??? If you exchange information with me on what years of the Stanford-ND rivalry got this bug into your golf hat, I can start doing some more thorough research.
). And while folks are always subjective, a committee chose to have her on the U.S.A. Olympic team and she just made the All-Star team for 2022.
Skylar is arguably the best guard in the league right now. and this is a year after being named to the WNBA first team (a team she's been on 3x).??? If you exchange information with me on what years of the Stanford-ND rivalry got this bug into your golf hat, I can start doing some more thorough research.
Not back it up? She just passed 4,000 pts scored in the league; is averaging 19.1 ppg, fourth in the league on 45.2% shooting overall, which is better than the three above her. On top of that she's shooting a very solid 86.3 % from the FT line which is good because she gets there so often (maybe that's because the refs don't want to offend her
Skylar's intense -- there's no doubt about that. But she works really, really hard to stay (more than) competitive, which both announcers brought up again and again last night. And Jaden Ivey, Niele's son, gives her credit for making him work hard and harder in practices.
Lastly, I've met her on multiple occasions and while she's not the most outwardly friendly player of the ND pros, she's straight-forward, polite and gives some thought to her answers. Oh, btw, she always comes back to practice and work with current ND players.
Gabby bringing alot of defensive energy to the game. Indiana's announcer suitably impressed.
If you were a regular watcher of WNBA games you'd be less amazed.
