2024 WNBA Season Discussion Thread

[MrDollarBills]

A'ja is just wonderful

I will never forget "They ain't done sh*t all game and the mothafuggas want to take a picture with him." An all-time classic. Every single time a team looks happy after losing, I'm going to think of A'ja. Thank you, Ms. Wilson.

She has every right to be frustrated too. She's been the best overall player in the league and her team has not held up their end of the bargain.

[jc23]

A'ja is just wonderful

I will never forget "They ain't done sh*t all game and the mothafuggas want to take a picture with him." An all-time classic. Every single time a team looks happy after losing, I'm going to think of A'ja. Thank you, Ms. Wilson.

She has every right to be frustrated too. She's been the best overall player in the league and her team has not held up their end of the bargain.

I LOVED hearing her say that.

[rmontro]

These fashion show type scenes they always do of the players coming into the arena always crack me up. Oh well, why not?

[MrDollarBills]

These fashion show type scenes they always do of the players coming into the arena always crack me up. Oh well, why not?

I like it, it gives the players a chance to express themselves and we get to see their personalities a bit. Like Cam Brink, Dijonai, and Angel come through looking like runway models, they're the more flashy types, then you see Arike coming through with her more tomboyish look and she looks always pimped out. Then you have Stewie who sometimes dresses up nice and sometimes she looks like she is about to go on tropical vacation (I love Stewie I can so identify with that lol) or Kelsey who opts for more of an adult sexy look.

I dig all of it. It makes things fun

[hermes]

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anyone have any thoughts on this?

[Ice Man]

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anyone have any thoughts on this?

The response depends upon whether one thinks that this WNBA board has relatively few posters because there aren't many WNBA fans on realgm, or because the board's location discourages such fans from posting. That is, if you made WNBA topics more visible on the General Board, that would create more traffic.

I think it's the former, which means that the WNBA threads on the General Board would quickly disappear from the first couple of pages, making it harder for WNBA fans to have discussions. So, I would keep things as they are. But just an opinion, I could be wrong.

[ellobo]

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anyone have any thoughts on this?

Personally, I would much rather keep the WNBA/women's basketball in its own forum. Every women's basketball thread on the general board ends up with 60% toxic BS about how women's basketball sucks and nobody cares about it (trolling and serious), 30% ignorant BS from people who don't watch women's basketball or know anything about it but have strong opinions about it anyway, and maybe, on a good day, 10% reasonable and rational discussion. I don't even like it when threads that start on the general board are moved to this one because they are so different in tone and content. Just leave them where they are, or lock them, but don't bring them here.

Putting WNBA discussion on the general board would make it so that people who actually like, watch, and know about it would have nowhere to discuss it. Plus, threads would quickly drop off the first page or otherwise get lost in all the regular NBA traffic.

It's my impression that participation on the WNBA board has been increasing, and there have been a number of new regular posters, which is great. Diversity of opinion is great. Critical analysis and debate are great. Humorous banter and trash talking are great. But as much as possible, without heavy-handed gatekeeping, I'd prefer it to be within a community of people who are interested in women's basketball and like women's basketball (any level of previous knowledge welcome), and hopefully are able to act like reasonable adults. At this point I feel like having its own forum goes a long way to maintaining the kind of culture that keeps me participating, but isn't an unreasonable barrier to new people joining.

I agree that a link should be in the drop down menu, though.

[Ice Man]

A small point but it amuses me. At 7:25 in the 4th quarter of the All Star Game, Clark made a bad pass that Stewie got one hand onto and tipped. The ball bounced toward the side line. Jackie Young made a desperation lunge to retrieve the ball before it went out of plan, and with one hand flung the ball blindly back onto the court, where it landed in the surprised hands of Jonquel Jones. She was under the opponent's basket and went up for a layup, which she missed under pressure.

The correct scorekeeping would have been MISS: Jones. The actual scorekeeping was -

TURNOVER: Clark
STEAL: Stewart
TURNOVER: Young
STEAL: Jones
MISS: Jones

LOL, Clark made a bad pass but it was no turnover, because the ball was batted around but never possessed. Stewart made no steal, she merely got one hand on a ball. Poor Jackie Young was blamed for a turnover when all she did was attempt to save a ball that her teammate had knocked out of bounds. Jones got credit for a steal when she did nothing of the sort, it just happened that a ball that was last in her team's possession fell to her.

That was a particularly silly example, but I have to say, I have seen several peculiar WNBA scorekeeping decisions this year. I guess it all evens out in the end ... but I assure you, on no planet that ever existed, or ever will exist, was that an actual Jackie Young turnover! (Or Clark for that matter, but she at least was guilty of a bad play.)

[ellobo]

This is awesome:

Watch on YouTube

"Ask me what that trunk do."



Nice feature on Ellie from Andscape:

Watch on YouTube

[Ice Man]

The Liberty has stars, the Nets do not.
The Liberty is good, the Nets are not.
The Liberty crowd is loud, the Nets' is not.
The Liberty have Ellie, the Nets do not.
The Liberty's seats are cheap, the Nets' are not.

Which team to see? Easy call that.

[Ice Man]

OK, I want to continue with my scorekeeping comments. After the ASG, the NYT wrote this about Clark's performance: "Her 10 assists came with zero turnovers. It was the first time this season she did not give the ball away." The writer is correct. Clark made zero turnovers in the game. However, the official WNBA scorekeeping shows that Clark had 2 turnovers.

My comment here is not about Clark specifically. It's about the WNBA recognizing that it has hit the big-time, so that it needs to clean up some of the small-time aspects of the league, like not getting the statistics right.

[MrDollarBills]

The Liberty has stars, the Nets do not.
The Liberty is good, the Nets are not.
The Liberty crowd is loud, the Nets' is not.
The Liberty have Ellie, the Nets do not.
The Liberty's seats are cheap, the Nets' are not.

Which team to see? Easy call that.

The Nets are a garbage franchise.

[MrDollarBills]

The All Star game drew 3.44 million viewers!!!

[Ghetto Gospel]

A small point but it amuses me. At 7:25 in the 4th quarter of the All Star Game, Clark made a bad pass that Stewie got one hand onto and tipped. The ball bounced toward the side line. Jackie Young made a desperation lunge to retrieve the ball before it went out of plan, and with one hand flung the ball blindly back onto the court, where it landed in the surprised hands of Jonquel Jones. She was under the opponent's basket and went up for a layup, which she missed under pressure.

The correct scorekeeping would have been MISS: Jones. The actual scorekeeping was -

TURNOVER: Clark
STEAL: Stewart
TURNOVER: Young
STEAL: Jones
MISS: Jones

LOL, Clark made a bad pass but it was no turnover, because the ball was batted around but never possessed. Stewart made no steal, she merely got one hand on a ball. Poor Jackie Young was blamed for a turnover when all she did was attempt to save a ball that her teammate had knocked out of bounds. Jones got credit for a steal when she did nothing of the sort, it just happened that a ball that was last in her team's possession fell to her.

That was a particularly silly example, but I have to say, I have seen several peculiar WNBA scorekeeping decisions this year. I guess it all evens out in the end ... but I assure you, on no planet that ever existed, or ever will exist, was that an actual Jackie Young turnover! (Or Clark for that matter, but she at least was guilty of a bad play.)

it's like PFF rating if you follow football at all.

it's definitely a turnover worthy level of play so dinging clark and crediting stewart with a steal makes some level of sense. it's hard to traditional stats to truly capture every play on a basketball court. jackie young just got the worst of it there

[Ghetto Gospel]

as far as im concerned, the liberty are a NY team like the knicks.

the nets are separate and a brooklyn team that no one in brooklyn roots for

[Ice Man]

it's definitely a turnover worthy level of play so dinging clark and crediting stewart with a steal makes some level of sense.

I agree that makes some level of sense, but those aren't the rules.

[Ice Man]

The All Star game drew 3.44 million viewers!!!

That's 60% as many as the NBA All Star game, which had 5.5 million viewers. I'm guessing that the WNBA would be happy with 60% of the NBA's TV money, too.

[Ghetto Gospel]

it's definitely a turnover worthy level of play so dinging clark and crediting stewart with a steal makes some level of sense.

I agree that makes some level of sense, but those aren't the rules.

if you consider it a loss of possession into another loss of possession it is

of course that's open to interpretation as well

[MrDollarBills]

Unc and Ocho discuss the All Star game

Watch on YouTube

Gotta give Unc and Chad credit, ever since that nonsense that happened on ESPN, they've been showing the W love on their show. They had Arike on a few weeks back. They give the ladies their flowers in this clip

And as Unc said very well, I rock with BOTH CC and Angel. All that rivalry nonsense is done.

[MrDollarBills]

The All Star game drew 3.44 million viewers!!!

That's 60% as many as the NBA All Star game, which had 5.5 million viewers. I'm guessing that the WNBA would be happy with 60% of the NBA's TV money, too.

Right. This is progress. And the performance that we saw from Arike guarantees we get some people coming back next year for more

Great times ahead yall