***Official Caitlin/Fever/Kate/Meg Games Mega Thread***
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You just described the spider household perfectly. For me, if there was a final straw so to speak, it came when I watched Monica McNutt’s interview with Jon Stewart. At one point she made some remark how (I’m paraphrasing) “all you new folks who haven’t been around for 27 years don’t get to just come in here and tell us you don’t like our game and we need to do it different—that’s not how it works.” Well yes, Monica, this is America and that’s actually exactly how it works. Supposedly your league is in the business of providing entertainment, and competing (I use that term rather loosely, and almost tongue in cheek) with a LOT of other options consumers have out there for their time, money, etc. in the entertainment space. The customer does actually get to define and “hire” the best product to do the job that needs to be done (in this case, “entertain me”). If you and your league have no desire to repackage your product to make it more appealing to a much larger consumer market, then I guess I’ll just find other products to fulfill my demand for entertainment. I suspect I’m not alone there.
In that same segment with the bootlickin' Jon Stewart, Monica McNutt also said she'd wished that the old WNBA cabal of black "sisters" could just stay the way it was was, and not belong to all these new fans (namely, us white dude Iowa fans.) The league is explicitly racial in terms of solidarity.
One thing I have always tried to preach to Iowans is that while it feels Christian and decent and purifying to say "I don't see race," please know that race always sees you.
As Hawkeye tells Radar in MASH: "To hell with your Iowa naivete!" (1:26)
Just a thought about Angel Reese. She's a forward and she dominanting at that position. The Aces play the Sky tomorrow. Why not put A'ja on Angel and let Stokes and Gustafson guard Cardoso It will be interesting to see if teams start putting their centers on her.
They should double team her and deny her the ball.
They don't have enough shooters to make teams pay, so why not?
Absolutely. Give her the old Caitlin Clark treatment. She's earned it.
Paige's groveling to the in-crowd is such a cowardly look. Cameron the same. Trimmed to its essence, the prevaling WNBA narrative is: you aren't us. You should probably feel bad about that, and try harder to please US. In Caitlin's case, where growing the league is concerned, the reverse is true.
In other news, I was recently in Albuquerque for work and some random guy at a bar, wearing a Pistons 'Sheed jersey, was loudly asking to put the Fever game on.
What's something I've never seen and will never see again post-Caitlin, for a bajillion, Alex?
They rarely run any real plays for her. So no reason to double her. Gets most of her points hitting the offensive glass, except when Smith was guarding her and just let Angel dominate her.
The Fever should continue to get better and better.
9pm tip tonight for the Fever. Not great for a team in the eastern time zone.
They've had quite a bit of time off compared to early in the season. Always tough going west but that shouldn't be a problem. They need to share the ball and play like they did for 3 quarters on Sunday and the last 3-4 games before that.
Isn't that around the time of the big debate? not to get into politics but... Competing with eyeballs on another channel.
I also hear that if you want to be a fan, you need to learn the history of the league…um, no I don’t. When I watched Michael Phelps, I didn’t have to learn the history of swimming.
The new-look WNBA with full arenas, charter flights and expanded TV and media coverage is kinda like that shiny pair of new shoes the W has been eyeing for so long. But breaking in a new pair sure can be painful. Man, come to think of it, the old pair sure were comfortable.
That's some really deep stuff right there, man.
Tonites game on tv?
Never mind ..i see it is on ABC after debate.
Kind of amazing, really.
Were these games on prime time major network in past?
Regular season games?
Never mind ..i see it is on ABC after debate.
Kind of amazing, really.
Were these games on prime time major network in past?
Regular season games?
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Hmm ... are you sure?
I know it's on Prime. The debate is 90 minutes, that would bump into 9 pm tipoff time.
Wish it was on ABC, better picture and I could record it.
Kate hits a 3 on her first shot
So I'm watching the Aces against the Sky. The announcer just noted that after each Sky game the opposing bigs will counsel Angel Reese on what she can do to better her game.
Must be part of that standard rookie hazing they talk about. Bardo called it a "sisterhood."
Must be part of that standard rookie hazing they talk about. Bardo called it a "sisterhood."
The opposing bigs? WTH?
Bardo bringing the Hawk talk, noting
Btw, I don't begrudge this one bit. Great sportsmanship and it is good for the league as he noted. But ... you know.
Well, like Bardo said it's a sisterhood. Or perhaps better said "sista hood."
Btw, I don't begrudge this one bit. Great sportsmanship and it is good for the league as he noted. But ... you know.
Would love to see both the Sky and the Sun lose today.
Stark contrast to the defense that Chicago is playing vs Vegas. Zone, as opposed to attaching players to the Fever's Clark.
Easy history to learn: people got in water. Raced. Got faster.
Reese's shorts are different than the others. Why is that?
She is "Special".
Marina Mabrey didn't play well last game against the Fever. But the first two games and now again against the Aces is straight ballin'.
Oh Kia ... stuff Reese then allow her to put it back in. Lulz.
Good to hear the name Stokes.
Gotta
Yep, our old scool B1G guy Bardo was sure to mention both Kia and Greg's Iowa connection.
The only thing that's impressed me with the "W" is the amount of blocked shots lol.
