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Yes she is Sue Bird

sarals24 said:
Sue and Stewie beating D in the semis could only be made better by having to face Maya in the finals. Oh well...
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They almost faced Rene and Tiff. Maybe a tad less marquee power but still impressive.

After the finals can we have a UConn vs. the rest of the WNBA game? I like our chances, a lot.
 
HoopsFan21 said:
Who would start for the UConn team? Bird, DT, Maya, Stewie, ??? Maybe Tina at the 5 spot?
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That's what I go with. One heck of a starting 5.

Bench choose from: Tiff, Rene, Steph, Kiah, Kia, Gabby, KML, Chong, Azura, Bria, Moriah and Tuck. Probably, Steph, Kiah, Tiff, Rene, Kia, Moriah and Azura.

Who beats that team?
 
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sarals24 said:
Sue and Stewie beating D in the semis could only be made better by having to face Maya in the finals. Oh well...
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The Lynx have no business being in the finals, PERIOD. Regardless if Maya was on the team. Sue and Stewie beating D in the finals will only be made better if they win it all. That's it. It doesn't matter who the opponent is. The Mystics are formidable so the series should be good.
 
Reypl21 said:
The Lynx have no business being in the finals, PERIOD. Regardless if Maya was on the team. Sue and Stewie beating D in the finals will only be made better if they win it all. That's it. It doesn't matter who the opponent is. The Mystics are formidable so the series should be good.
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I think the point was it would be a another battle of former UConn players who are in the GOAT discussion. That would have been fun.

Nothing beats the Sue/Diana match up, because of the personalities, intensity, history and capabilities. It was enormously entertaining. I not a WNBA fan, but I loved every minute of that series.
 
sarals24 said:
Sue and Stewie beating D in the semis could only be made better by having to face Maya in the finals. Oh well...
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Just noticed your avatar... love it!
 
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I love this from Voepel's article:

AS A POINT guard and a leader, Bird tries to keep everyone on her team happy, an instinct instilled in her at UConn. Coach Geno Auriemma took her aside as a sophomore and said that from then on, whatever went wrong with the team was her fault. This was after she'd missed most of her first season with the knee injury.

Such is Auriemma's genius at reading people. He made Bird feel ownership for everything because he knew that the more responsibility she had, the more she would thrive.

"Coach Auriemma always says, 'Basketball is not a game of how-to, it's a game of when-to,' " Bird says. "Because you're going to get to some point, like the WNBA, where everybody can do things. But it's the people who know when to do them -- the right time -- that's where great players can separate themselves."
 
"Bird’s never averaged more than 14.7 points per game in her 16-year career, but similar to Magic, that’s by choice. Bird possesses a unique unselfishness and patience that steers her game in the direction of the win and allows her to orchestrate symphonies in which she’s the center of the heart but pumps blood through her teammates. Her impact on third-year superstar Breanna Stewart has been evident. Seattle Stew won the 2018 WNBA MVP award and averaged 21.8 points per game and 8.4 rebounds, but every now and then Bird likes to reminds fools that her bucket game is true to the game. "

Sue Bird Steals The Spotlight In Her Quest For A Third WNBA Title

"Seattle Stew" love it.

But the big truth of the article is in a very short sentence: " Bird executed a five-minute flurry that will live on in WNBA lore."
 
And the final summary. :)

"The ultimate facilitator. The epitome of unselfishness. Feisty but humble. Words that are lost in this age of max money ballers and “franchise players, but ring loudly when the greatest point guard in WNBA history takes the hardwood"
 
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huskyd said:
Sue's no Briana Polido (Polly at the Buzzer), but she is GREAT. Goodness, how I love all the UConn ladies: Dee, Sue, Stewie. So proud.
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@huskyd UConn has Ballers. Ain't no circumstance in which it is appropriate to refer to our Huskies as "ladies". Now, Tennessee, you can call them anything you want and they think "ladies" is peachy.
 
Beemer said:
It's from The PlayersTribune.com, i don't know why the link doesn't work here. :(
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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!
 
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RockyMTblue2 said:
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!
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That's fantastic. Thanks for posting.
 
Has anyone ever seen this mini series of skit's that Sue Bird hosts. "Between Two Birds"

Hilarious :D:D:D:D

She has real comedic flair.

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





Check out what happens at the 5' mark.
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
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!
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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.
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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.
 
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