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Seattle Storm vs New York Liberty - 7/25/20

Who will win this game?

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Adriacus said:
No axe grinding. But the stats/results/eye test don’t support the descriptions above [“great, “excellent”]. Her debut was rough. Some good, more bad. Not close to the worst ever for a #1 overall pick but not close to the best ever for a #1 overall pick.
Ionescu had trouble in college against athletic & defensive minded teams [Baylor, Louisville, etc.]. She will be facing those types of players/teams regularly now.
History shows that more first round picks fail than succeed. Presuming success isn’t warranted. Ionescu’s success depends on her ability to create space and score in much smaller windows of opportunity. Every player has to make that adjustment.....but her average athleticism makes it a bigger item for her.
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Wow...you pick two games when they focused the defense on her and she wasn't as effective. That L'ville game was the 3rd game in three days where Walz admitted he focused the whole trip on trying to beat Oregon. The guy who stopped Griner in college can put together a pretty good D plan.

I guess you didn't see her play against Team USA, Stanford, Maryland, Missisippi State, and a whole bunch of good teams. I'd say she has at least as good as athleticism as Sue Bird who has had a pretty good WNBA career following up her stellar college career. Sabrina will do fine.
 
eebmg said:
and Magebor is going to be a stud. Her development helped by Lauren Jackson
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Seattle in Ezi and Russell have 2 good frontcourt players off the bench. If Tuck gets back they will be even better.
 
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Adriacus said:
No axe grinding. But the stats/results/eye test don’t support the descriptions above [“great, “excellent”]. Her debut was rough. Some good, more bad. Not close to the worst ever for a #1 overall pick but not close to the best ever for a #1 overall pick.
Ionescu had trouble in college against athletic & defensive minded teams [Baylor, Louisville, etc.]. She will be facing those types of players/teams regularly now.
History shows that more first round picks fail than succeed. Presuming success isn’t warranted. Ionescu’s success depends on her ability to create space and score in much smaller windows of opportunity. Every player has to make that adjustment.....but her average athleticism makes it a bigger item for her.
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Okay. Ogunbowale started last year shooting poorly, but she still scored because she took a lot of shots. Down the stretch she was much more efficient and was one of the top scorers in the league. I'll wait a while before passing judgement on Ionescu as a pro.
 
Seven rookies might not beideal for the Liberty, but maybe Megan Walker will get some good minutes. :D
 

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Shades said:
That would surprise me. Langhorne, maybe.
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Langhorne will be at the end of the bench. Russell and Ezi will get plenty of playing time with teams playing every other day. Prince needs to learn to play within the offense, and Canada still gets out of control too often.
Sue, Stewie, and Loyd looked good, Clark is always the glue person, Howard will get going, will be a very good team by seasons end.
 
triaddukefan said:
How did Odom look?
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Out of all the rookies that played she looked the most comfortable. Now its more so her being decisive on when to attack and look for hers. When she’s active on the offensive end something good happened. I think she’s learning that stand still offense that was allowed at Duke won’t cut it in the W. I was impressed.
 
Adriacus said:
No axe grinding. But the stats/results/eye test don’t support the descriptions above [“great, “excellent”]. Her debut was rough. Some good, more bad. Not close to the worst ever for a #1 overall pick but not close to the best ever for a #1 overall pick.
Ionescu had trouble in college against athletic & defensive minded teams [Baylor, Louisville, etc.]. She will be facing those types of players/teams regularly now.
History shows that more first round picks fail than succeed. Presuming success isn’t warranted. Ionescu’s success depends on her ability to create space and score in much smaller windows of opportunity. Every player has to make that adjustment.....but her average athleticism makes it a bigger item for her.
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Wednesday June 29th. Update: This makes the dumb post award of the week.
 
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