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WBNA Playoffs - here we go!

Most Valuable! Looking at these teams playing without their mvp candidate: hard for me to see Indiana winning many games at all without Kelsey Mitchell. I mean, really, very, very few wins.. Caitlin Clark not being around has really allowed her to show what an outstanding player she has become. Offensively, close to unstoppable.
Of course, no Wilson, no Thomas, their teams would not win many either. Not so much Atlanta or the Lynx.
 
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boontonbomber said:
Most Valuable! Looking at these teams playing without their mvp candidate: hard for me to see Indiana winning many games at all without Kelsey Mitchell. I mean, really, very, very few wins..
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Do not disagree, but the same is true of Aliyah Boston. Her performance has been even better by every advanced metric, yet Mitchell is garnering the individual accolades. It really shows both the much greater difficulty and the higher standard for a post to capture everyone’s attention versus a perimeter player.

This is not about Aliyah Boston.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I'm pretty sure nobody with as much talent as NY has ever lost in the first round of the WNBA playoffs before, right?

Congrats to Phoenix. AT doing AT things, yet another triple double.
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It is definitely a head scratcher. After the game finished, I kept on thinking about the seasonal plots for the Liberty and Aces – exact opposite trajectories.The Liberty had it going at the beginning of the season but just fell apart when the injuries started piling up and it seems like they could never find that groove when the band was all back on the court together.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I'm pretty sure nobody with as much talent as NY has ever lost in the first round of the WNBA playoffs before, right?

Congrats to Phoenix. AT doing AT things, yet another triple double.
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The problem is that the talent wasn't evident. Jones was a negative factor, and Cloud and Fiebich were non-factors. I almost felt bad for Stewie. She's grinding on and MCL sprain and half her teammates are giving the effort rec basketball deserves.
 
GoChips20 said:
I get they had injuries but the Liberty massively underperformed this year and honestly it wasn’t even really the storyline it might’ve been in a different season.
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Brondello skates by on underachieving all the time. 2 Titles, but a whole bunch of other seasons significantly lesser than they should be given the talent she had.

Lately I've been wondering why she's the Australian National Team coach. Surely they can find someone better. Wow, I just looked it up, she was appointed in 2017 and apparently will hold the position thru the 2028 Olympics. A whole decade?
 
TheFarmFan said:
The problem is that the talent wasn't evident. Jones was a negative factor, and Cloud and Fiebich were non-factors. I almost felt bad for Stewie. She's grinding on and MCL sprain and half her teammates are giving the effort rec basketball deserves.
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Meesseeman didn't play much in the 3rd game. Seems like she never really got fully on track with them.

So...blow up the team and start over? If nothing else, this serves to underscore a little bit that it was impressive the Aces won back to back.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Meesseeman didn't play much in the 3rd game. Seems like she never really got fully on track with them.

So...blow up the team and start over? If nothing else, this serves to underscore a little bit that it was impressive the Aces won back to back.
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Hard to join a team mid year as a big time player and find your way when you're not really needed. Libs were already set IMO with a clear starting 5 of Cloud/Sabrina/Fiebich/Stewart/Jonquel.

I'm still of the belief that Sandy isn't the best fit. She's won a couple of titles with loaded rosters but too often has underachieved. Should be able to get more out of a team that has Sabrina/Stewart/Jonquel Jones in the lineup.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I'm pretty sure nobody with as much talent as NY has ever lost in the first round of the WNBA playoffs before, right?

Congrats to Phoenix. AT doing AT things, yet another triple double.
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New York was a mystery this season, like a lot of teams to be honest. Hats off to Phoenix! Great game.
 
I believe basketball is the wierdest sport in respect to consistency. Even the best players will have off nights. The thing is with the lIberty, it seems the majority of the team had off nights together. The off nights will often apply to entire parts of a season. Look at how much the Aces dropped off last season and suddenly they have it together again. Its a sport where an average player can have a lights out game and a star end up throwing up bricks. This is why team balence is important. Other teammates need to be able to fill in for sub performing stars on their off nights. When everything lines up even bad teams can knock off the best. That is not possible with many other sports.
 
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TheFarmFan said:
The problem is that the talent wasn't evident. Jones was a negative factor, and Cloud and Fiebich were non-factors. I almost felt bad for Stewie. She's grinding on and MCL sprain and half her teammates are giving the effort rec basketball deserves.
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Jones' performance this play-offs series was definitely perplexing, to put it mildly. Last season she was the MVP of the finals. The difference is glaring.

Another thing I wonder is whether having Laney-Hamilton this season would have made a difference. She was a key piece last season and not having her this year definitely threw something off with this roster.
 

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