2024 WNBA Season Discussion Thread

[Green Chile]

Today's hoops, we got a full plate my friends:

Storm vs Sun at 1pm EST (NBA TV)

Sky vs Lynx at 3pm EST, we know hermes will be locked in on that one.

Fever vs Wings at 4pm, Arike vs CC is always a joy to watch. I feel like after their last meeting and the all star game, this is gonna be a fun one. (NBA TV)

Aces vs Mercury at 4pm EST

Dream vs Sparks at 7pm EST

I tried to find broadcast info as best as I can. They don't make this easy.

That is a fun lineup!

Sun-Storm especially. They feel like very similar teams to me. Really good defensive, veteran laden teams that can compete with anybody, but you never quite know if they've got enough shooting.

Storm came up short against your Liberty, but it was food to see SDS get hot.

[Ice Man]

Mabrey went 5 of 7 from downtown tonight for the Sun

She's been excellent since the trade. It was a great move for her. The Sky looked to her to be their #1, at least when starting the season, and Mabrey is not that level of star. If you expect her to lead a team, you will be disappointed. But as a key member of a strong squad? Absolutely. She has taken the Sun up a notch, significantly.

[DOT]

Mabrey went 5 of 7 from downtown tonight for the Sun

She's been excellent since the trade. It was a great move for her. The Sky looked to her to be their #1, at least when starting the season, and Mabrey is not that level of star. If you expect her to lead a team, you will be disappointed. But as a key member of a strong squad? Absolutely. She has taken the Sun up a notch, significantly.

I think the issue in Chicago was that her and Chennedy kind of have too similar of roles, both are scorers but not #1 scorers, and neither is really a facilitator

CT's just a really well-balanced team, at least more so than Chicago. Sky had 3 players averaging more than 10 ppg, Chennedy, Angel, and Mabrey, and the Sun had 5. Now it's 2 and 6 (if you round up, technically AT is only averaging 9.6 ppg since the break)

Plus now instead of having to be the primary facilitator in Chicago (led the team in APG at 4.5), she gets to be a secondary/tertiary creator playing off of AT

She's been an excellent fit.

[MrDollarBills]

Mabrey went 5 of 7 from downtown tonight for the Sun

She's been excellent since the trade. It was a great move for her. The Sky looked to her to be their #1, at least when starting the season, and Mabrey is not that level of star. If you expect her to lead a team, you will be disappointed. But as a key member of a strong squad? Absolutely. She has taken the Sun up a notch, significantly.

I think the issue in Chicago was that her and Chennedy kind of have too similar of roles, both are scorers but not #1 scorers, and neither is really a facilitator

CT's just a really well-balanced team, at least more so than Chicago. Sky had 3 players averaging more than 10 ppg, Chennedy, Angel, and Mabrey, and the Sun had 5. Now it's 2 and 6 (if you round up, technically AT is only averaging 9.6 ppg since the break)

Plus now instead of having to be the primary facilitator in Chicago (led the team in APG at 4.5), she gets to be a secondary/tertiary creator playing off of AT

She's been an excellent fit.

Yeah that was an excellent trade. The Sun needed that spacer in the line up badly.

[MrDollarBills]

Today's hoops, we got a full plate my friends:

Storm vs Sun at 1pm EST (NBA TV)

Sky vs Lynx at 3pm EST, we know hermes will be locked in on that one.

Fever vs Wings at 4pm, Arike vs CC is always a joy to watch. I feel like after their last meeting and the all star game, this is gonna be a fun one. (NBA TV)

Aces vs Mercury at 4pm EST

Dream vs Sparks at 7pm EST

I tried to find broadcast info as best as I can. They don't make this easy.

That is a fun lineup!

Sun-Storm especially. They feel like very similar teams to me. Really good defensive, veteran laden teams that can compete with anybody, but you never quite know if they've got enough shooting.

Storm came up short against your Liberty, but it was food to see SDS get hot.

Yeah I am actually trying to hurry up now to grab some food stuff and then get back to watch the game, it's gonna be a good one.

And yeah I like Skylar a lot. She plays with such a chip on her shoulder, that's the same reason why I'm a Natasha Cloud fan as well. I love feisty guards

[cdubbz]

Add some spice to todays Fever v Wings game
Swoopes has gotten a lot of crap for 'hating' on Clark so it will be interesting how she commentates todays game. She doesn't need to drool over her or emphatically say she's elite or any of that imo, but some credit would be enough.

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[cupcakesnake]

Anytime Conneticut or Seattle hits a 3 it feels like the game is over lol.
These teams are allergic to that 3-point shot.

[MrDollarBills]

Dijonai Carrington is so much fun to watch man.

[MrDollarBills]

Add some spice to todays Fever v Wings game
Swoopes has gotten a lot of crap for 'hating' on Clark so it will be interesting how she commentates todays game. She doesn't need to drool over her or emphatically say she's elite or any of that imo, but some credit would be enough.

Read on Twitter

What did Sheryl say now?

I really wish this stuff wasn't happening. Clark has never said anything but gracious things about the older generation so I dunno what this is even about. I also don't like how that person was talking towards Sheryl. Have some respect.

This is a time where everyone should be rallying around the current Gen of WNBA players. We're literally seeing monumental change happening in real time. It kills the vibe with this unnecessary drama.

[MrDollarBills]

Anytime Conneticut or Seattle hits a 3 it feels like the game is over lol.
These teams are allergic to that 3-point shot.

As a fan of a team who jacks up a million threes per game, i have no issues with either team not wanting to shoot em

[Ghetto Gospel]

not sure why the storm are so stuck on defense to the sun bigs when they're out on the perimeter. just help the girl out on carrington when she gets a deep post seal

[cupcakesnake]

Dijonai Carrington is so much fun to watch man.

The on-ball stuff is great, but she's also pretty incredible at being disruptive and mucking things up in the paint. It's simply not easy for the offensive player when Carrington is near.

[MrDollarBills]

Mabrey WTF. What a sick 3

[MrDollarBills]

Dijonai Carrington is so much fun to watch man.

The on-ball stuff is great, but she's also pretty incredible at being disruptive and mucking things up in the paint. It's simply not easy for the offensive player when Carrington is near.

Yeah. She's a chaos agent out there.

If I were a rival GM I would be looking to poach her when she hits free agency. She's not an all star level player but she's an elite role-playing talent that has instincts that cannot be taught.

[cupcakesnake]

Bri Jones just bullying Ezi down the stretch to keep this lead.

[cupcakesnake]

Mabrey just fits Conneticut's needs so perfectly. Working out exactly as hoped.

[Green Chile]

Bri Jones just bullying Ezi down the stretch to keep this lead.

What a game for her. She's great, but I didn't see her lighting Ezi up so badly.

[hermes]

good start for the lynx

dorka starting in place of alanna today

[cdubbz]

Add some spice to todays Fever v Wings game
Swoopes has gotten a lot of crap for 'hating' on Clark so it will be interesting how she commentates todays game. She doesn't need to drool over her or emphatically say she's elite or any of that imo, but some credit would be enough.

Read on Twitter

What did Sheryl say now?

I really wish this stuff wasn't happening. Clark has never said anything but gracious things about the older generation so I dunno what this is even about. I also don't like how that person was talking towards Sheryl. Have some respect.

This is a time where everyone should be rallying around the current Gen of WNBA players. We're literally seeing monumental change happening in real time. It kills the vibe with this unnecessary drama.

She didn't say anything. The last thing that got blown over proportion was her not saying anything on the broadcast when her co commentator mentioned CC as players of the week or month.

She's been talking trash to people on twitter who were going at it for it which was the tweet i posted
She's been getting harassed about her radio silence on CC on air. social media folks are insane harassing her for things like that, but yeah makes me wonder how she'll commentate since she's been engaging with those folks about it.

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[hermes]

sky turning it over a lot