WNBA Open Thread: A Four Game Night, Including A NBA TV Doubleheader

…or not.

I’ll just assume everyone is suffering from Japan/Germany hangover at the moment.

Game is so much fun so far.

What the hell is going on? The MYstics were leading most of this whole time, Now they are giving it away. But it’s not like I wasn’t expecting this……….

BACK TO BACK STEALS BY CATCHINGS LATE IN THE FOURTH!? GET YOUR GODDAMN HEADS IN THE GAME MYSTICS! YOU CAN’T BE THIS CLUELESS!!

Indy has 8 turnovers…. Catchings has taken over this game on her natural side of the floor, guess which one friends.

by the Mystics….. Just pathetic. Definition of a team caving in.

I think I just heard the guy say 15 turnovers… but that can’t be true…

PAcers get 6th straight win…

I think I love the theatrics… but I wonder how much the team does….

Why doe sCharde Houston have a shaved head?

that city has been dying for any playoff basketball for quite awhile now.. I hope they finally make it this year.

And that’s after hanging 43 in the first half.

Chi up 60-59 … and McCoughtry is trying to force more turnovers…

According to Yahoo!’s box score, Toliver and Lavender are starting in place of Penicheiro and Thompson.

Accounted for the last 5 straight points…

68-63 Sky…

They have an ad for the next home game on the court…. I guess it’s free advertising when you see it..

I’m now watching the Seattle game…. like everyone else here….

Are all the Seattle games on the radio and TV? I saw Dick FAin and Adia at Verizon on Sunday. Am I allowed to say that she is soooofine?

Chi up 71- 67 – going to the basket drawing fouls. Atl taking a few contested shots…

Nate, you may know this better. Is the PA Announcer for the Storm also the last PA Announcer for the Supersonics?

Their ability to cut tovs down and get to the line so well down the stretch made the difference…

Now on to the Storm!

…after I figure out if I’ve won Dat Brunson’s jersey on auction. I have a sinking feeling she’s not going to keep the FB page and the live auction synced. :/ Until I figure that out, I will be madly refreshing the FB page.

It actually is easier for me for some reason.

Just constant energy attacking the basket and defending players all over the court…

You can tell your children you witnessed that moment.

Seattle is really struggling to guard the paint.

It’s only a few points, but it keeps them off-balance…

She’s looking much more comfortable with the ball on the block this year.

It’s not resulting in huge numbers, but it’s pretty big for a team whose bench is struggling…

Stats notes – Storm getting outshot (again) but shooting better.

eFG%
Sparks 50%
Storm 44%

What I wonder is if the Sparks’ effective post game will open up more 3pt shots (1-3 in first)….

you’re in trouble…

make their mark.

We saw that against PHX. She’s got to get a bit of a better grip on that to go along with her improved play. She did a lot of hurt her team that night. She’ll learn, but I’m sure the Sparks hope it’s sooner rather than later. ;)

No LeBron which is what I like the best.

For some reason, last couple years, it’s really hit a wrong nerve with me when championship teams come to the white house and then host camps, etc. in DC.

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here or maybe it was Bullets Forever, but last year in January 2010, the LAkers visited President Obama, and then hosted a camp in DC at the Verizon Center practice court with kids in our area. They then left the camp in Lakers gear and the players naturally told them to do an ending cheer with “GO LAKERS”. There was actually a video of it for NBA Cares. As a sports fan, it really, really hurt, because it was just soon after the Gilbert Arenas situation was going out. Sorry if I repeated this……..

Neither team had a big offensive rebounding half, but both got better in the second quarter:

2nd qtr Oreb%
Sparks: 60%
Storm: 44%

If the Sparks continue to win the oboards and outshoot the Storm, a home loss could be imminent…

I can’t remember the last time I had the Storm with this kind of momentum…

Either the opener against the Mercury… or the WNBA Finals…

Tulsa and Washington gave away games… and it was more Storm D

how can an old man who’s losing his ability to walk be so enthusiastically happy to be in a plush version of a wheelchair? He sounds like a stereotypical old man too…

Call now….. RIGHT NOW!!!

Key stat:

Storm shooting helped by Sparks tos:

3rd qtr tov%:
Sparks: 33% (7)
Storm: 10% (2)

But overall, Storm’s 71.88% eFG makes that one of their best quarters of the season…and it was just great overall

Feeling good, feeling great. Feeling great, feeling good, how are you?

(and it’s not really yet)

But this is great for a local TV game… they’re playing the best basketball of the year in this second half…

We see you.

Now you’re just being mean.

Good hands too.

I wanted to see the STorm score some more.. Run it up on em!!!

That backup center for Seattle, #11, she just did an Andray Blatche post move….. >:(

“I’m falling, and I can’t get up!”

and I see the Hoveround man again, with a fatass old man saying he paid nothing for his unit..

This whole not knowing if I am a winner of a loser thing is causing me severe psychological damage.

As I suspected, there was not coordination between FB and real life. Oh well. I should have bribed someone in MN to act as a proxy for me.