Sun Give Death to Liberty, But...

[psconn]

What started as a hotly contested, physical game to the half, ended up as a 21 point blowout physical game with the undersized Liberty unable to seriously compete under the boards with the Sun. JJ's big dub-dub (31 and 13) along with Jas Thomas' relentless harassment of Sabrina on D were the highlights for me.

We left the Arena feeling great about the team, the standings and the prospects for further success. Then the gut punch...

Jonquel Jones temporarily leaving Sun

Jonquel Jones has been a big reason why the Connecticut Sun have been one of the WNBA’s top teams early this season. Connecticut will be without Jones indefinitely as she’s leaving Sunday to play for ...

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Can't begin to describe how much this sucks.

 

[eebmg]

No sympathy from the Liberty. You still have competent posts like Brianna Jones and more time for Mompremier who I think will fill in reasonably well

We lost Natasha Howard which will blow our season to smithereens

 

[bbsamjj]

More than any WNBA season I can remember, I'm not sure how much the regular season will tell us about the teams until maybe the final weeks of the season. There's been late arrivals, injuries, players leaving for various tournaments. The only thing I know for sure is that Indiana will miss the playoffs, and that Seattle, Vegas, Connecticut, and likely Phoenix will all make it.

But you have a good number of teams that are performing way below expectations, due in no small part to injuries/late arrivals (DC, Minnesota, Chicago); a couple teams who jumped out of the gate hot and have started to cool down (Atlanta, New York), and then Los Angeles, who is 4-3 but that includes three wins of Chicago and one win over Indiana (and who are currently playing without both Nneka and Chiney).