ETT - If you look at my earlier comments, I do not question in any way BG being on this team, but I do recognize that there are specific match-ups involved in that decision (the one you mention specifically and I too mentioned.) In games against other teams with international style centers, her strengths are not as useful and her weaknesses get more exposed. BG (and Sylvia as well) are on this team with one team in mind, Australia, who is likely as they were in England, to be the stiffest competition we face. They will performing with varying levels of success in other games, but they are essential to that one game.
What I will say, and I saw it yesterday in person as I have seen it in the WNBA this year, is that there is something not right with her emotionally, mentally, or physically this summer. She has played professionally much better than she is this year and I do not know what it is that is causing that. There is almost a lethargy in her game - you see glimpses of the 'real BG' but it is just not consistently coming out on the floor. It is similar in result to two college games in her great college career - Louisville and that first game against Uconn when she looked lost and where she in the Uconn game asked Kim to get her to the bench. Those were single games, but I am seeing the same lack of confidence or fight in almost every WNBA game I have seen. A catch she usually makes she fumbles, a shot she usually makes bounces off the rim, a player she usually dominates, she fades away from. By the way, Geno complained about Sylvia doing a similar thing in the last week, and I thought it resurfaced again yesterday. And in another thread I think you mentioned some of your own observation that match this. I almost responded there.
