That brace she had to wear though...........man. Wishing her a speedy recovery.
I really wanted Dolson to be the primary backup 4/5 for the Mercury!Stef Dolson is back with the Mystics:
Sources: Dolson back to Mystics on 2-year deal
Unrestricted free agent Stefanie Dolson is returning to the Washington Mystics, where she spent the first three years of her WNBA career, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.www.espn.com
A post rotation of Austin, Egbo, Hines-Allen, and Dolson is pretty decent.
I think she was in Haley Jones' shadow most of her career. Maybe even her Soph year but definitely as a Jr. I thought Brink should've been the featured player for Stanford's offense rather than Jones. At least she got to shine this year.
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Yeah agreed. PAC-12 network did her no favors, especially the last 2 years when she would’ve been a more prominent figure. I doubt she’s complaining though. She’ll finish her career with at least 1 championship, 2 Final Four Appearances, 3 years being named an All American, a PAC-12 POY award, 3 PAC-12 DPOY awards, likely 2 National Defensive POY awards, the #2 FT streak in NCAA history and a Stanford degree where her parents were able to watch most games in person. She’s also been dating a rower at Stanford the last 3 years and her social media has blown up too while at Stanford. By all accounts, she seems to have had a wonderful college career.
Joined the select few w/ 400 career blocked shots. I think I read she's 1 of 17 that have ever done that.
Scary thought. At the same time, that could be to her advantage with respect to wear and tear on the body. She's had the benefit of being on a team that could survive without her having to play major minutes.
She also had a history of getting into foul trouble. I bet that affected her minutes.
To some degree. Stanford had a very deep rotation in the front court most of her time there, that limited her minutes too.
Early on, it was rotation-related. Since her sophomore year, she's been our obvious front court starter, and so the limitation in minutes has largely been driven by fouls. (and honestly it's a major downside to being such a two-way player - she picks up a lot of offensive and defensive fouls in a way that most bigs are primarily prone to one or the other).
She couldn't because she was always in foul trouble.
True, but in addition Tara had the luxury of being able to be cautious with Brink's foul issues because of how loaded they were with talented bigs on the bench. They didn't have to worry about falling off a cliff when she was out. Over her career Tara has had a player on the bench that could dunk, another 6-5 player that was a good 3 pt shooter, and a future WNBA high pick in Betts.
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