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TheSuzerain wrote:I believe O-Rebs are already baked in BKRef's O-Rating calc and that has Reese slightly below league average.
But in any case, seems to me like her rebounding dominance isn't going anywhere, and she has obvious runway for improvement on her shooting efficiency. She's good.
dougthonus wrote:dice wrote:btw, drummond is much better offensively than reese was as a rookie. she was HORRENDOUS (excluding pounding the boards, of course). made joakim noah look like jokic...ok, prime brad miller
I don't think this is really true. Her percentages were awful, but if you take all the extra possessions added via offensive rebounding and then measure her as points per net possession, she would be an absolutely elite offensive player.
dice wrote:dougthonus wrote:dice wrote:btw, drummond is much better offensively than reese was as a rookie. she was HORRENDOUS (excluding pounding the boards, of course). made joakim noah look like jokic...ok, prime brad miller
I don't think this is really true. Her percentages were awful, but if you take all the extra possessions added via offensive rebounding and then measure her as points per net possession, she would be an absolutely elite offensive player.
nnnnnno, an elite offensive big would not be one dimensional. he/she would be a good/great offensive rebounder AND a good passer AND a volume, efficient scorer (by far the most important category). like charles barkley. reese is not on the same planet as charles barkley
Jcool0 wrote:Sky stink....
Scottie Pippen's response to whom he would pick for his running mate, Michael or LeBron: "That's a dumbass question. I've never done anything with LeBron. I wouldn't take LeBron to the movies."
Ice Man wrote:The Sky aren't going to be very good, but they might not be as outright bad as they looked. This revamped version of Indy, the one that now has defenders at both forward positions instead of traffic cones, is a nasty piece of work. They're going to make a lot of WNBA teams look ugly this season.
Scottie Pippen's response to whom he would pick for his running mate, Michael or LeBron: "That's a dumbass question. I've never done anything with LeBron. I wouldn't take LeBron to the movies."
fleet wrote:I don’t watch this sport. But I know who looks bad here.
Ice Man wrote:Yes, the WNBA is helped by getting 4-year college stars as rookies. Those who watched the college game are already invested in Page, Citron, Paopao, Kiki, and so forth.
To return to the Sky, Cardoso remains a work in progress. Her entire game is about getting the ball 3 feet from the basket, which isn't as silly as it would be in the modern NBA, because in the WNBA unlike the NBA that still happens a lot for centers. But in this game at least the Fever were effective in denying that play, and when they did, forcing Cardoso further away from the rim, she looked lost. She needs to get found, because the Sky's plan is to build around their twin towers. That's not going to happen if Cardoso doesn't become more versatile. (Angel, too, but that is a lesser problem.)
TheSuzerain wrote:Ice Man wrote:Yes, the WNBA is helped by getting 4-year college stars as rookies. Those who watched the college game are already invested in Page, Citron, Paopao, Kiki, and so forth.
To return to the Sky, Cardoso remains a work in progress. Her entire game is about getting the ball 3 feet from the basket, which isn't as silly as it would be in the modern NBA, because in the WNBA unlike the NBA that still happens a lot for centers. But in this game at least the Fever were effective in denying that play, and when they did, forcing Cardoso further away from the rim, she looked lost. She needs to get found, because the Sky's plan is to build around their twin towers. That's not going to happen if Cardoso doesn't become more versatile. (Angel, too, but that is a lesser problem.)
Cardoso kind of a bum honestly.
Reese and Atkins are fine. Other than that it's ugly.
Scottie Pippen's response to whom he would pick for his running mate, Michael or LeBron: "That's a dumbass question. I've never done anything with LeBron. I wouldn't take LeBron to the movies."
Ice Man wrote:The Sky aren't going to be very good, but they might not be as outright bad as they looked. This revamped version of Indy, the one that now has defenders at both forward positions instead of traffic cones, is a nasty piece of work. They're going to make a lot of WNBA teams look ugly this season.
fleet wrote:I don’t watch this sport. But I know who looks bad here.