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rmontro wrote:Garbage.
Kuya wrote: a good agent collects all the data, including quotes to give them leverage in contract deals.
Ice Man wrote:Garbage defense. It was first a layup drill for the Sun, and then at the end a 3 point drill. However, the offense wasn't bad. If Clark/Mitchell had shot 8-23 on 3s, which is slightly below their average percentage, the Fever would have scored 81 points, which is pretty good against the Sun. Enough to win for a good defensive team. But the Fever are far from that.
rmontro wrote:During the playoff game, the announcers were talking about the "Caitlin Clark Effect", how she was bringing new eyes to the WNBA. They said something along the lines of "Come for Clark and the Fever, stay for the other players, and fall in love with the other teams". I was thinking yeah no, who has a favorite team they follow and falls in love with the other teams? In the NFL, I'm a Packer fan. Do you think I've fallen in love with the Bears, Lions, and Vikings. Oh hell no. I might respect them on some level, but I'm certainly not in love with them.
Some people are interested mainly in the league as a whole, and that's great. But for me, I'm here to see the Fever and how they develop. Once they're eliminated, I doubt I watch many playoff games, if any. I'll probably keep track of who stays in and who ends up winning, but that's about it.
Kuya wrote: a good agent collects all the data, including quotes to give them leverage in contract deals.
cdubbz wrote:rmontro wrote:During the playoff game, the announcers were talking about the "Caitlin Clark Effect", how she was bringing new eyes to the WNBA. They said something along the lines of "Come for Clark and the Fever, stay for the other players, and fall in love with the other teams". I was thinking yeah no, who has a favorite team they follow and falls in love with the other teams? In the NFL, I'm a Packer fan. Do you think I've fallen in love with the Bears, Lions, and Vikings. Oh hell no. I might respect them on some level, but I'm certainly not in love with them.
Some people are interested mainly in the league as a whole, and that's great. But for me, I'm here to see the Fever and how they develop. Once they're eliminated, I doubt I watch many playoff games, if any. I'll probably keep track of who stays in and who ends up winning, but that's about it.
It applies to me. CC brought me to become a WNBA fan, but I've come to like many individual players and some teams. Even if my city wasn't getting an expansion team I would continue watching the WNBA and watch teams/players I'm interested in.
rmontro wrote:Ice Man wrote:Garbage defense. It was first a layup drill for the Sun, and then at the end a 3 point drill. However, the offense wasn't bad. If Clark/Mitchell had shot 8-23 on 3s, which is slightly below their average percentage, the Fever would have scored 81 points, which is pretty good against the Sun. Enough to win for a good defensive team. But the Fever are far from that.
It's hard to see how/if the Fever are going to move up into the upper tier of teams. They're young and improving, but they don't seem to have the right makeup of a championship team. Not sure they have the right coach either. I guess they have to make whatever changes during the offseason they can, and go from there. A series of fine tunings, I guess. Sides originally said something about teams who had the number one pick need five seasons before they win the championship.
You're right though, that if Clark and Mitchell hadn't had off days shooting, it wouldn't have looked quite so heinous. Clark did have that eye injury, maybe that was bugging her more than she let on.
rmontro wrote:During the playoff game, the announcers were talking about the "Caitlin Clark Effect", how she was bringing new eyes to the WNBA. They said something along the lines of "Come for Clark and the Fever, stay for the other players, and fall in love with the other teams". I was thinking yeah no, who has a favorite team they follow and falls in love with the other teams? In the NFL, I'm a Packer fan. Do you think I've fallen in love with the Bears, Lions, and Vikings. Oh hell no. I might respect them on some level, but I'm certainly not in love with them.
Some people are interested mainly in the league as a whole, and that's great. But for me, I'm here to see the Fever and how they develop. Once they're eliminated, I doubt I watch many playoff games, if any. I'll probably keep track of who stays in and who ends up winning, but that's about it.
sikma42 wrote:[Kelsey Mitchell is a top 10 player in the league. Boston is an All Star. I'm hearing that CC is a top 3 player in the league.
That's enough of a core to compete. They just need a backup point guard and upgrade over Lexie Hull (she should be a bench player - I'm not sure she isn't just on a hot streak).
Wingy wrote:Same, and I’m not sure why. For example, I love watching a good football (aka soccer) match, but have a harder time getting into it as a following fan and….aha, I just figured it out.
It’s the fact that it’s only 12 WNBA teams….I can appreciate the league as a whole because I can “know” it. I’ve become familiar with the starters (by and large). An insane number of club teams, and players given football’s the world wide sport. Having a hard time fully embracing something so huge without a rooting interest outside of the USM(&W)NT, even though I love watching a good game.
Edit: if I HAD to choose, I’d probably go Fever followed by the Storm.
Kuya wrote: a good agent collects all the data, including quotes to give them leverage in contract deals.
cdubbz wrote:Yeah it's a quick small league to learn as well as only really competing with MLB in the summer time for now. I like how there's only 40 games for now, short playoff format, and the games are 40 minutes -- easy to pay attention to overall.
Kuya wrote: a good agent collects all the data, including quotes to give them leverage in contract deals.
Kuya wrote: a good agent collects all the data, including quotes to give them leverage in contract deals.
cdubbz wrote:Fever v Sun
- Boston Pick n roll This was successful in game 1. If Sun continue to double KM/Clark then Boston needs to hit that jumper or make the smart read.
-Get the others going: Get Lexie, Nalyssa MORE looks. Lexie only had 4 FGA. (29min) and Nalyssa 1 (9min). Dantas made a huge difference with her ability to hit the 3 and score. Clark/KM/Boston need those guys to keep the defense honest and help with scoring.
Protect the paint: Fever game up 50 points in the paint. I think Fever need to keep 2 bigs on the floor at all times. Shoot use hack-a-Jones once in a while if you need to.
