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Yeah, chances of 2 of those happening are between slim and none.
Seattle needs to get more playing time for Ezi, Russell, Canada, Lou fits that also. If Tuck is healthy she will play. Clark isn't going to get much better, and Howard had a bad year.
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Storm also got Herbert-Harrigan. Yawn.
So they acquired a '21 and '22 1st round draft pick and promptly traded them away for players who have not really done anything in the league so far. The '21 was #1 overall pick. I know the consensus is that there isn't a #1 worthy pick this year, but still trading that away for a former #4 pick who has been a fairly big disappointment so far?
Candice Dupree has been a very good player for a long time. She can score, but I don't think she can D up like Howard, and I don't know how many miles she has left. She's 36.
So they acquired a '21 and '22 1st round draft pick and promptly traded them away for players who have not really done anything in the league so far. The '21 was #1 overall pick. I know the consensus is that there isn't a #1 worthy pick this year, but still trading that away for a former #4 pick who has been a fairly big disappointment so far?
Candice Dupree has been a very good player for a long time. She can score, but I don't think she can D up like Howard, and I don't know how many miles she has left. She's 36.
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She had a terrible start to the season, but turned it around and was good in the playoffs. Averaged 13.5 ppg over the final 12 regular season games shooting 61% and 8.3 rbg. Not bad for a 4th option.
Good point noting the drop off on D . I was going to say especially KLS but on second thought especially both of them.
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That was almost bizarre how little impact the first half of the season she had. That was a deep team.
Herbert-Harrigan may surprise. Maturity issues at SC. Good physical tools. I was impressed with her production in limited minutes her first year in W. She looked like she belonged.
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May be right about Clark but she’s been getting better with age but that can’t go on forever. Clark was a late bloomer as a pro and she sure did bloom. In 2016 when they lost in first round she was brutal. No offense. Coach that year for Storm was in over her head. She’s now in the NBA.
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She's a high energy player and she had no energy at the start of the season. She looked like an entirely different person. But the light suddenly flipped up around the midpoint and she was back to being the player we were used to seeing.
MHH improved a great deal over the course of her final season at SC. There were very few observable deficiencies in her game last year, and Boston’s life is much harder in her absence.
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I feel like I remember them saying Howard came into the bubble a bit out of shape. So, that would explain the "no energy" situation. From fourth option on the Storm to the fourth richest contract in the league.
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I thought she might be a nice pairing w/ Howard. I guess not. Who else do the Lib have in their post rotation? Stokes and...?
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Kylee Shook (Louisville), entering her second year. Averaged 4.1 ppg (40.5% overall shooting), 2.8 rpg in 20 games in the bubble.
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Yeah, that's a pretty thin rotation.
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They play small ball. Laney might end up as the starting 4.
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Now that's a head scratcher...
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Sims was looking like she might be the "odd guard" out and that, interestingly, might be due to a squeeze at the 3.
If Lynx want to play big and have Damaris Dantis at the 4, Phees' becomes a 3 and K-Mac is the off guard.
Even if they go "small" with Phees at the 4 and, say Aerial Powers at the 3, there's K-Mac at the 2.
Seems like open tryout for all the guard positions with the Fever with Odyssey and Lindsey Allen going there.
Fever have Julie Allemand and Kathleen Doyle at the point and the Mitchells at guard. Erica Wheeler has moved on to the Sparks so there is a room an explosive presence, although I'm sure one (both?) of the Mitchells might claim that adjective for their own.
Stay tuned!
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