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Message: [QUOTE="CamrnCrz1974, post: 2699185, member: 1052"] [USER=7548]@eebmg[/USER] , I respectfully disagree with you. First, it is difficult to make comparisons in terms of numbers. The WNBA has 12 teams, with a maximum of 12 players per roster. The NBA has 30 teams, with a maximum of 15 players per roster. Second, the issue is not shooting. The issue is creation. Much fewer WNBA players can create their own shots, which is why there needs to be more reliance on screens and set plays. This leads me to my biggest concern with the WNBA - PLAYMAKING. Last year, the WNBA had 11 players who averaged 4.0 assists (or more) per game: [URL="http://www.wnba.com/league-leaders/#?sort=AST&dir=1&Season=2017&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&StatCategory=AST"]League Leaders - WNBA.com - Official Site of the WNBA[/URL] Counting Lindsay Whalen (who only played in 22 games, but averaged 4.1 assists per game), that makes 12 players. In the NBA, 62 players averaged at least 4.0 assists per game. [URL="http://stats.nba.com/players/traditional/?Season=2017-18&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&sort=AST&dir=-1"]Players Traditional[/URL] Yes, the games are longer. But the disparity between the men's and women's game in this statistic is astronomical. On average, that is over 2 players per NBA team, whereas the WNBA barely has an average of 1 player per team at 4.0 APG. And those 12 WNBA players, two played for the CT Sun (J. Thomas and A. Thomas), two played for Minnesota (L. Whalen and S. Augustus), and two played for Chicago (C. Vandersloot and C. Pondexter). So six of the twelve played for three teams. So while the average may be one per team, there are a number teams without a playmaker at 4.0 APG. If the WNBA is selling fundamentals, the passing/playmaking needs to improve. [/QUOTE]

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