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WNBA June 2019 Musings, scores, pictures, etc

Jeez, Chicago is shooting 60% from the floor but still trailing by 12. Weird.
 
nwhoopfan said:
The rest of the team was 20-44 from the floor. How in the world does Agler let Arike shoot that much when she can't hit anything?
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He’s decided to just let her keep shooting because she’ll win them 1 out of every 10 games. Advanced analytics, I guess
 
Katie Lou is rockin' some pinstripes on the bench. Is she secretly a Yankees fan?
 
Plebe said:
He’s decided to just let her keep shooting because she’ll win them 1 out of every 10 games. Advanced analytics, I guess
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Or advanced tanking.
 
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Serious question: Is Arike on pace to set the record for most shots *taken* by a rookie?
 
Plebe said:
Serious question: Is Arike on pace to set the record for most shots *taken* by a rookie?
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2-23 is 8.7%. I think this is a record for a rookie.
 
Q3 off to a bad start for Seattle. Taking tough shots, not much ball movement.
 
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I've been tooting Natasha Howard's horn this year, but she's having a bad game. She's taken 3 absolutely terrible shots this quarter. 3-12 from the floor. Chicago within 1 now.
 
Chicago grabbed a lead briefly. Seattle barely clinging to a 66-65 advantage thru Q3. Only scoring from the FT line for a while now.


Meanwhile Phoenix is killing Indiana 84-61 midway thru Q4.
 
Tale of two halves. First half was well played by both teams. Second half is butt ugly, too physical, now refs calling everything, no flow to the game. Tied at 70 w/ about 6 1/2 minutes left. Seattle just brought 4 starters back in for the stretch run.
 
91-69 Phoenix final. Griner had 23. Sophie Cunningham w/ 19 (career high so far?) and Leilani Mitchell w/ 18 and 11 assists.
 
Seattle basically hasn't hit any buckets since the first quarter. Surviving on FTs. Might pull this out, up 3 w/ 10 seconds left. Canada has decisively outplayed Slootie tonight. She seems to have some detractors on this site, I just don't see it. She has a lot of potential and I think will be a nice successor to Bird somewhere down the road.
 
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79-76 Seattle final. DeShield's 3 rims out as time expires.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Seattle basically hasn't hit any buckets since the first quarter. Surviving on FTs. Might pull this out, up 3 w/ 10 seconds left. Canada has decisively outplayed Slootie tonight. She seems to have some detractors on this site, I just don't see it. She has a lot of potential and I think will be a nice successor to Bird somewhere down the road.
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Canada's offense can be up and down, but her defense is at an absolutely elite level. She's leading the league in steals by a wide margin.
 
Plebe said:
Canada's offense can be up and down, but her defense is at an absolutely elite level. She's leading the league in steals by a wide margin.
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Yep. She was credited w/ 3 steals but probably caused at least twice that many turnovers. I really think her defensive pressure had Sloot off balance most of the game, she wasn't much of a factor.
 
Went to ESPN's WNBA page this morning. Here's the latest headlines:

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Rough season. Injuries, criminal prosecutions, and a record-settingly bad performance from a possible ROY candidate. Speaking of which, she has an interesting philosophy:
The rookie had a rough night from the field, missing a WNBA-record 21 of 23 attempts. "Nothing you can do about that, that's tough," she said after the Wings' 69-68 loss. "Shots didn't fall."
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Well, one thing you can do is realize after going 0-10 that tonight's not your night, and maybe you should pass the ball to someone else. Or, at a minimum, get back on D. Speaking of which, I love this truth talk from Agler:
"I've seen her hit those shots," Wings coach Brian Agler said. "She's got to understand that you have to play through contact and you're not going to get calls your way, so you can't stand and look at the official and complain because the other team is going in transition."
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Oh Agler, you clearly haven't been watching ND over the past few seasons, have you? Standing around whining at officials while failing to get back in transition was ND Guard Play 101 if your last name started with an O or an M...
 
TheFarmFan said:
Went to ESPN's WNBA page this morning. Here's the latest headlines:

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Rough season. Injuries, criminal prosecutions, and a record-settingly bad performance from a possible ROY candidate. Speaking of which, she has an interesting philosophy:



Well, one thing you can do is realize after going 0-10 that tonight's not your night, and maybe you should pass the ball to someone else. Or, at a minimum, get back on D. Speaking of which, I love this truth talk from Agler:


Oh Agler, you clearly haven't been watching ND over the past few seasons, have you? Standing around whining at officials while failing to get back in transition was ND Guard Play 101 if your last name started with an O or an M...
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Arike always wanted to be a top headliner. ;)
 
“The Raptors, to begin with, obviously they’ve completely changed the complexity of what people think about basketball in our country,” WNBA star Kia Nurse said on Prime Time Sports. ...

“I think bringing a WNBA team to the city would do the exact same thing [as the Raptors’ playoff run], continue to grow the game, continue to give young people — especially young girls — an opportunity to see people who look like them, because representation matters, and think ‘oh, I could do this one day, I could have a career in basketball if that’s something I wanted to do.'”

www.sportsnet.ca

Kia Nurse sees bid for Toronto WNBA expansion as next step in game’s growth

www.sportsnet.ca www.sportsnet.ca
 
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The Mystics are murdering the Sun right now. These are the top 2 teams.
 
Honestly I don't think Connecticut is as good as their early record would suggest. They just lost to Dallas, which isn't even a good team, and now down 40 to the Mystics.
 
Reypl21 said:
The Mystics are murdering the Sun right now. These are the top 2 teams.
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Sun about to be on a 3 game losing streak after that hot start. This absolute beat down has to be concerning.
 
If the Mystics don't win the title this year...........................................
 
triaddukefan said:
If the Mystics don't win the title this year........
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Too early to crown a champion. Just based on talent on paper, LA should be able to compete with Washington. But it's more of a development project. Fisher has to figure out how to weave together both Ogwumikes, Parker and Vadeeva into a coherent frontcourt scheme. And of course a lot will depend what becomes of R. Williams, who has really been a spark and has helped to *trigger* their offense.
 
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