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It's Dallas and while folks love to instantly point fingers/cannons at Arike, the personnel situation dictates that one looks at GM Greg Bibb and HC Latricia Trammell. Now, the signing of Morgan Bertsch was nothing really more than a stop-gap move, given Maddy Siegrist's broken finger and surgery, which -- in itself -- was important due to Satou Sabally's continued absence.Morgan -- the Wings Hardly Knew 'Ye. Sims back on the Dallas Merry-go-Round
Wings bring back veteran guard Odyssey Sims
The Dallas Wings signed veteran guard Odyssey Sims on Tuesday, cutting forward Morgan Bertsch to make room.www.espn.com
Oh, that would make too much sense -- a forward for a forward. Or, in Dallas, cut a forward, sign a guard.
Hats off to Minnesota!! That was a great game. I am surprise that Bridget Carleton wasn't MVP as well. I will be honest, I have always been suspect of BC and the amount of minutes she gets and for what little production she has given Minnesota over the past few seasons. Last night and the last few games, BC has been frigging ball her you-know-what off out there! I am happy for BC. She has shown up. We all knew she had that potential, and she is shining bright...and she should have been awarded the MVP last night.Minnesota takes the Commissioner’s Cup game.
I’m a huge Collier fan, but I’m mildly taken aback that Carleton wasn’t the MVP.
And @cancontent didn’t bribe me to say that.
Your general analysis about the Wings might well be spot on, Dillon77, and I would expect you to defend Arike, but my fingers/cannons are still pointed at her.
NaLyssa is one of the, if not the, worst post defenders in the entire league. That's not surprising at all.
I kinda feel like winning the Commissioner's Cup is a curse (well, other than the extra cash). Winner almost never goes on to win the Championship. One year when Seattle won it, might've been the first year, they tanked not long after. Lynx win it this year and day's later lose to the last place team in the league. Weird.
Chelsea Gray adds much more to the Aces than just her stat line. She is the brains of the team and keeps them playing right. Plumb, Young and Wilson often revert to one on one hero ball. It works when you are hot, but keeps you in the hole when you are not. Notice at the end of the game, after Chelsea was taken out seemingly for the remainder of the game, she was put right back in when the Aces began to commit one bad play after the other allowing the opposition to close the gap.
Jewell can lead to those kind of analogies:
If she continues to play like that, I'll eat my words about her being a yo-yo for GM Greg Bibb. On the other hand, we've all seen some first "off the street" hot-as-blazes games that are followed by "cold as locker room steel" the next time around. Good win yesterday for the Wings, who caught the Lynx less than 36 hours after a huge game and probably a big lagged.
Not what I'm seeing. Storm won Championship in '20, won Commissioner's Cup in '21 but faded that season. 1/3 is a lot worse then 2/3 for a small sample size. '22 Aces only team to win Commissioner's Cup and Championship in same season so far. You gonna put money on the Lynx winning it all this year?Per Wikipedia, the Commissioner's Cup winner has won the WNBA title twice (Seattle 2020, Vegas 2022). That's 2 out of 3, with this year yet to be determined.
WNBA Commissioner's Cup - Wikipedia
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Sorry - Confused the founded date with when Seattle won it.Not what I'm seeing. Storm won Championship in '20, won Commissioner's Cup in '21 but faded that season. 1/3 is a lot worse then 2/3 for a small sample size. '22 Aces only team to win Commissioner's Cup and Championship in same season so far. You gonna put money on the Lynx winning it all this year?
Reese on arguably a team of equal or greater mediocrity is clearly leading ROY as we approach the break.
Definitely one of the downsides of the commissioner's cup game. It really imposes a cost on the players and while I'm sure the Lynx players we're happy with the 48k they each earned the turn around definitely is demanding.
The Fever are a weak defensive team. I was trying to be diplomatic here. Indiana leads the league in points allowed and negative point differential. The Storm are not the only team that feast against the Fev.
I would say for most of the players it's a blessing at least in the revamped financial format. Many of the players will earn a 50% bump from their annual pay. A curse like this we should all have.
Holy crow -- Hines-Allen didn't miss any shot all game (overall, three's, FT's) and had 7 defensive rebounds, to boot. And, as noted, that's against a team that can -- and did -- clamp down defensively. I've watched Myisha since she was a young 'un at Montclair High School in New Jersey and, like so many pro players, she was just plain better than 95% of the competition she'd play. But there were times when she'd get in a zone and you'd shake your head. Then...disappear the next game or three. This was obviously the former.