Lynx re-sign Fowles but trade Peters...

[EricLA]

Minnesota Lynx moves...

They traded Peters for Natasha Howard. To me, without looking at stats, this seems like a terrific trade. Howard was one of the top 2 or 3 kids coming out of HS - behind Ogwumike but ahead of Sims.

Howard sort of seemed to play in obscurity at Florida State - she averaged 20+ PPG as a senior but I don't recall hearing much about her while in college.

 

[Orangutan]

Minnesota Lynx moves...

They traded Peters for Natasha Howard. To me, without looking at stats, this seems like a terrific trade. Howard was one of the top 2 or 3 kids coming out of HS - behind Ogwumike but ahead of Sims.

Howard sort of seemed to play in obscurity at Florida State - she averaged 20+ PPG as a senior but I don't recall hearing much about her while in college.

Stats are about the same. Peters is more of a shot-blocker, otherwise very similar. Difference is that Peters pretty much is what she is at this point. Howard theoretically has much more upside if she can develop her game. She regressed in year two, though.

Kind of like it for both sides. Peters fits into the defensive mentality of the Fever and gives them a player who knows how to play a defined role (rim protector off the bench). Plus, she comes back to Indiana and reunites with Achonwa, so the transition should be easy for her.

The Lynx are in much less need of a shot-blocker with Fowles in the fold. They can take a chance that Reeve and all the stars on Minnesota can help Howard develop. If it doesn't work out, they haven't lost much.

Howard was great at Florida State but relied more on athletic ability than on refined technique. In my opinion, her development as a player was stunted by having to try to do everything on a team where she was the only elite player. She didn't learn how to play within in a team concept. She was the team concept. It's a shame that she graduated before the cavalry (i.e. Bulgak, Romero, S. Thomas) came and turned Florida State into a legit team. Similar situation to Dearica Hamby, who I was high on but struggled as a rookie. Except that Wake Forest still stinks.

 

[01Neaggrad02]

Isn't Peters the one who did a video journal talking about how the entire world is racist?

Maybe it is just me, but it seems like the Notre Dame players do not last long in the WNBA... I could be wrong, but just an observation

 

[hjoerring]

Isn't Peters the one who did a video journal talking about how the entire world is racist?

Maybe it is just me, but it seems like the Notre Dame players do not last long in the WNBA... I could be wrong, but just an observation

Perhaps its just You. I recalled her having made one of those summer videos about being an Amer. bb player in a foreign country. Personally, I found it very tasteful for different reasons. First, it was a window into how a non-top five player life is like on an average team (I don't think she was playing for a top team); Second, how do they negotiate or not negotiate the language/culture issues. Americans and Brits are usually the worst when it comes to this matter. Unless the other are willing to speak- even broken English- they are lost or reduced to a passive/aggressive presence- why don't you'all speak English!. If "race" was touched upon, it was done appropriately and was one of the many problematics addressed- she is afterall a young Black woman. Perhaps you do not know much about 'Europe', but there is a rightward turn and race, religion and nationality have become quite noisy (to put it politely). I will not take the time to find out where she is playing, but in places like Hungary the gov't freely uses anti-semitic language and call for the deportation of all foreigners- including Europeans from the South. Perhaps this has yet to reach the American newspaper or, it may still be the norm in many places in the State; but, in Europe there were the naive sense that We had turned the corner and delivered that to the dirty side of our society.
Perhaps you have grounds to knock Peters, but hiding it in the phrase "entire world is racist" shows a lack of worldiness. Yes, the entire world might just be racist. It will be interesting to see how Americans playing in Europe negotiate these matters as they will get worst.

 

[UcMiami]

hjoerring - well said.
I would add that while the UK with its far flung colonial empire has quite a wide range and large population of people of color (African, Caribbean, and sub-continental asian) with the exception of France (north african colonies) most of Europe is quite noticeably caucasian in population - the laboring classes have been imported from eastern european and former soviet countries. This is noticeable to folks traveling from the US and I am sure is more noticeable to US people of color. You can find similar pockets in the US as well, but seldom in larger cities or on college campuses which would be Peter's main point of reference.

 

[CocoHusky]

Isn't Peters the one who did a video journal talking about how the entire world is racist?

Maybe it is just me

Perhaps its just You.

This topic was hashed out in a thread from Oct 2015.

http://the-boneyard.com/threads/down-and-dirty-with-devereaux.82022/