Yes she is Sue Bird

[Kaizen]

Just love those two ....

 

[eebmg]

Just love those two ....

Okay Stewie, lets hug but I got my eyes on your elbows.

 

[Beemer]

Something's broke here @Beemer. At least for me.

It's from The PlayersTribune.com, i don't know why the link doesn't work here.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

It's from The PlayersTribune.com, i don't know why the link doesn't work here.

Hi!! Sue here. This is my WNBA Finals preview. The title was supposed to be “So I Broke My ducking Nose (and 16 Other Things That I Want You to Know Before the WNBA Finals)” but we ran out of space. My bad. Thanks for reading. GO STORM.

So I Broke My ducking Nose | Sue Bird

@Beemer the pix of her putting her game face/mask on is a pix for the ages!

 

[Beemer]

Hi!! Sue here. This is my WNBA Finals preview. The title was supposed to be “So I Broke My ing Nose (and 16 Other Things That I Want You to Know Before the WNBA Finals)” but we ran out of space. My bad. Thanks for reading. GO STORM.

So I Broke My ing Nose | Sue Bird

@Beemer the pix of her putting her game face/mask on is a pix for the ages!

Isn't it?

 

[eebmg]

I really liked this '10 Year' Commemoration video of Sue Bird and some of her prior clutch moments.

Enjoy.

 

[UConnCat]

Hi!! Sue here. This is my WNBA Finals preview. The title was supposed to be “So I Broke My ing Nose (and 16 Other Things That I Want You to Know Before the WNBA Finals)” but we ran out of space. My bad. Thanks for reading. GO STORM.

So I Broke My ing Nose | Sue Bird

@Beemer the pix of her putting her game face/mask on is a pix for the ages!

That's fantastic. Thanks for posting.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

A prophetic 4 minutes:

 

[eebmg]

Has anyone ever seen this mini series of skit's that Sue Bird hosts. "Between Two Birds"

Hilarious

She has real comedic flair.

Here is a sample with KML being "interviewed" sought of





Check out what happens at the 5' mark.

 

[eebmg]

Hi!! Sue here. This is my WNBA Finals preview. The title was supposed to be “So I Broke My ing Nose (and 16 Other Things That I Want You to Know Before the WNBA Finals)” but we ran out of space. My bad. Thanks for reading. GO STORM.

So I Broke My ing Nose | Sue Bird

@Beemer the pix of her putting her game face/mask on is a pix for the ages!

I am very surprised that Sue's brilliant Players Tribune article is not getting more commentary at the BY. For my enjoyment at least, I quote the Stewie focused portions


I’ve gotten a lot of credit for Game 5 — probably too much credit. Listen, I’ll admit it, it’s a good story: Vet gets her face busted up, puts on a superhero mask, becomes unstoppable from three and leads her team to victory. But anyone who watched the whole thing, they know I probably only ranked third on the list of reasons that we won that game. Here’s my top four: (1) Stewie, (2) Stewie, (3) A great team effort, (4) Stewie.

Now, I’m not new to this. I’ve been around. And I know enough to know that it’s a losing battle to complain about how the league MVP isn’t getting enough credit or attention. I understand that I’m probably not going to get much sympathy here, calling the league MVP “underrated.” But…. y’all. STEWIE. Stewie carried us in Game 5. I mean, she just absolutely carried us.
......
But all the same: Let’s recognize that this whole team did something amazing together. And that, with Stewie in these playoffs, we’re watching someone play this game on god mode.


We’re back! In the Finals! But it’s not that simple. I’m going to have to backtrack here, just a little bit. Because to understand the story of this year’s Storm team, you really have to understand the story of the last three years.

Three years ago, at the end of the 2015 season, we pretty much hit rock bottom: 10-24, almost last in the league. We’d won the title in 2010….. but now that felt like a lifetime ago. Teams go in cycles, and we were stuck in a bad one — and it felt like there was no getting out, anytime soon. And with my entering free agency during that offseason, and with the last full act of my playing career probably coming up…. you know, it really felt like I was going to have a tough decision to make. Should I stick things out with the Storm? Or should I leave for a contender?

On one hand, it wasn’t even complicated — Seattle, that’s the place for me. It’s always been the place. I mean, you know when kids talk about their “white picket fence” dream? For me that dream has always been becoming a Seattle lifer. I’m talking play out my career here … and then retire here … and then buy courtside seats for the Storm (and Sonics!) here … and just, you know, live out my days as one of those old people kicking around Seattle who loves to talk hoops. That was my dream. But then on the other hand — it was tough, you know? Because my entire identity as a basketball player has been about winning. And I don’t mean that in a cocky way. But it’s more like…… that’s the game I’ve always wanted to play, and the game I’ve always tried to model myself on. I’ve never wanted to chase stats, or accolades, or put up 20 shots a night, or any of that. But I’ve always wanted to go down as someone where, people would talk about me and they’d be like, “Oh yeah, Sue Bird. A winning player.”

And so I spoke to the people in my life who matter to me. Of course I spoke to Coach Auriemma — we had a lot of back-and-forth conversations about everything. You know, when people talk about Coach Auriemma building a program at UConn, I think too often they leave this element out of it: how he really does become a mentor for life to all of the players who come through his program. Like, here we are, in 2018, it’s 20 years after Coach recruited me, and he’s still giving me advice.

But anyway, it’s funny — life is funny. It really is just one of those things. Because you have all of these conversations, you spend hours and days and weeks and months thinking things over, and then, suddenly, out of nowhere, something just happens to render all of that….. I mean, almost meaningless.

I haven’t really said as much, publicly, because it was never actually that simple, and never only about this one thing…. but at the same time, it’s like — what’s the difference between “only” and “mostly,” when it comes to a big life decision like this? So I’m never quite sure how to phrase it. But I’ll say it anyway: We won the lottery.

We got Breanna.

And at this point, I don’t mind saying it at all. In fact, I’m proud to, because she deserves it: One moment, we were just another rebuilding team. And then the next moment, we were the team with Breanna Stewart on it. I mean, even to call it the “lottery” — that’s underselling it, right? Because the lottery is annual. Once every year, for sure, there’s a No. 1 pick. But what happened to us, with Stewie? I’d say it’s more like once every generation or so, that there’s a prospect of her caliber. There’s a LeBron James, or a Tim Duncan, you know? That was Breanna.


So. It sounds like Stewie coming to Seattle clinched Sue's decision.


There are lots of other insights in the article as well.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I am very surprised that Sue's brilliant Players Tribune article is not getting more commentary at the BY. For my enjoyment at least, I quote the Stewie focused portions


I’ve gotten a lot of credit for Game 5 — probably too much credit. Listen, I’ll admit it, it’s a good story: Vet gets her face busted up, puts on a superhero mask, becomes unstoppable from three and leads her team to victory. But anyone who watched the whole thing, they know I probably only ranked third on the list of reasons that we won that game. Here’s my top four: (1) Stewie, (2) Stewie, (3) A great team effort, (4) Stewie.

Now, I’m not new to this. I’ve been around. And I know enough to know that it’s a losing battle to complain about how the league MVP isn’t getting enough credit or attention. I understand that I’m probably not going to get much sympathy here, calling the league MVP “underrated.” But…. y’all. STEWIE. Stewie carried us in Game 5. I mean, she just absolutely carried us.
.
But all the same: Let’s recognize that this whole team did something amazing together. And that, with Stewie in these playoffs, we’re watching someone play this game on god mode.


We’re back! In the Finals! But it’s not that simple. I’m going to have to backtrack here, just a little bit. Because to understand the story of this year’s Storm team, you really have to understand the story of the last three years.

Three years ago, at the end of the 2015 season, we pretty much hit rock bottom: 10-24, almost last in the league. We’d won the title in 2010….. but now that felt like a lifetime ago. Teams go in cycles, and we were stuck in a bad one — and it felt like there was no getting out, anytime soon. And with my entering free agency during that offseason, and with the last full act of my playing career probably coming up…. you know, it really felt like I was going to have a tough decision to make. Should I stick things out with the Storm? Or should I leave for a contender?

On one hand, it wasn’t even complicated — Seattle, that’s the place for me. It’s always been the place. I mean, you know when kids talk about their “white picket fence” dream? For me that dream has always been becoming a Seattle lifer. I’m talking play out my career here … and then retire here … and then buy courtside seats for the Storm (and Sonics!) here … and just, you know, live out my days as one of those old people kicking around Seattle who loves to talk hoops. That was my dream. But then on the other hand — it was tough, you know? Because my entire identity as a basketball player has been about winning. And I don’t mean that in a cocky way. But it’s more like…… that’s the game I’ve always wanted to play, and the game I’ve always tried to model myself on. I’ve never wanted to chase stats, or accolades, or put up 20 shots a night, or any of that. But I’ve always wanted to go down as someone where, people would talk about me and they’d be like, “Oh yeah, Sue Bird. A winning player.”

And so I spoke to the people in my life who matter to me. Of course I spoke to Coach Auriemma — we had a lot of back-and-forth conversations about everything. You know, when people talk about Coach Auriemma building a program at UConn, I think too often they leave this element out of it: how he really does become a mentor for life to all of the players who come through his program. Like, here we are, in 2018, it’s 20 years after Coach recruited me, and he’s still giving me advice.

But anyway, it’s funny — life is funny. It really is just one of those things. Because you have all of these conversations, you spend hours and days and weeks and months thinking things over, and then, suddenly, out of nowhere, something just happens to render all of that….. I mean, almost meaningless.

I haven’t really said as much, publicly, because it was never actually that simple, and never only about this one thing…. but at the same time, it’s like — what’s the difference between “only” and “mostly,” when it comes to a big life decision like this? So I’m never quite sure how to phrase it. But I’ll say it anyway: We won the lottery.

We got Breanna.

And at this point, I don’t mind saying it at all. In fact, I’m proud to, because she deserves it: One moment, we were just another rebuilding team. And then the next moment, we were the team with Breanna Stewart on it. I mean, even to call it the “lottery” — that’s underselling it, right? Because the lottery is annual. Once every year, for sure, there’s a No. 1 pick. But what happened to us, with Stewie? I’d say it’s more like once every generation or so, that there’s a prospect of her caliber. There’s a LeBron James, or a Tim Duncan, you know? That was Breanna.


So. It sounds like Stewie coming to Seattle clinched Sue's decision.


There are lots of other insights in the article as well.

Thank you. It is a terrific article. The lack of play here? Summer Malaise?

 

[nwhoopfan]

Here’s my top four: (1) Stewie, (2) Stewie, (3) A great team effort, (4) Stewie.

Somewhere on that list of keys to the game, she should've included the spark off the bench that Whitcomb provided in the 2nd half. They also don't win the game without that.

 

[eebmg]

Somewhere on that list of keys to the game, she should've included the spark off the bench that Whitcomb provided in the 2nd half. They also don't win the game without that.

I "ellipsed out" her praise of others since I was focusing on Stewie and her count down was clearly editorial flourish.

And like I said, there were so many other cool little moments, team moments: Jordin’s big three. Alysha coming up with clutch rebound after clutch rebound. Sami, off the bench, knocking down shots and playing that lockdown defense. (Sami never stops hustling. She’s such a play-maker.) And of course shout out to Most Improved 2018, Natasha — her work on the offensive glass was so huge. We don’t win if she doesn’t get those boards.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Sami, off the bench, knocking down shots and playing that lockdown defense. (Sami never stops hustling. She’s such a play-maker.

There was a nice article in the Seattle Times about Whitcomb after the semi finals, Bird says Sami is one of the peskiest defenders she's ever played against.

I saw her play in college a handful of times w/ UW, she was a good player but I never really expected her to end up in the WNBA. Took the long route to get there, but I'm happy to see her finding success.

 

[eebmg]

There was a nice article in the Seattle Times about Whitcomb after the semi finals, Bird says Sami is one of the peskiest defenders she's ever played against.

I saw her play in college a handful of times w/ UW, she was a good player but I never really expected her to end up in the WNBA. Took the long route to get there, but I'm happy to see her finding success.

Thought I would post the link and highlight your point which is very interesting and unfortunately will bury KML further to the bench imho.

Without Sami Whitcomb’s heroics off the bench, Storm wouldn’t be playing in the WNBA Finals


"The 30-year-old Whitcomb is billed as a quick-release three-point specialist, but in her second WNBA season the former Washington Huskies standout is slowing building a reputation as a fan-favorite pesky defender who never relents.

Just ask Bird.

“She’s the most annoying player to practice against,” the 17-year-veteran said. “I’m not kidding, top three in my career because she just never stops. She’s the leading scorer in practice by far, without question for the season."