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DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

If Diana wants to live up to that White Mamba nickname she’ll come back for one more season and milk it for all it’s worth. Make every away team give her a video send off, make some new limited edition shoes, have a last game where she jacks up a truly epic number of shots on ESPN2 while the Fever set the season wins record on ESPN

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snyprmag
Oct 9, 2005

OzFactor posted:

Phee is so good at basketball

https://x.com/automaticnba/status/1839151786965205366?s=46&t=0x_opuk5bo0lymk_1YRzgQ

Ginger Beer Belly
Aug 18, 2010



Grimey Drawer
I love that there's a lot more interest in the WNBA, but I hate 30% of the fans that have joined because they've co-opted Caitlin Clark as a vehicle for their racist bullshit.

I started off as an OG WNBA fan. I lived in Houston in 1997 when the inaugural season kicked off and I attended a lot of their games. I saw Cynthia Cooper, Sheryl Swoopes, and Tina Thompson absolutely dominate the rest of the WNBA under Van Chancellor's coaching.

I cheered for Kim Perrot and mourned her passing.

I now live in Iowa in West Des Moines, Caitlin Clark's hometown. My youngest daughter went to Dowling Catholic a couple of years before Caitlin Clark did.

The story of Caitlin Clark's success in college and now in the WNBA has been co-opted by regressives who want to use Caitlin as a pawn in their arguments about how Caitlin is mistreated because of race to further their agenda about how white people are akshully being mistreated.

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

by HopperUK
Yeah the entirety of that dynamic and how often it comes up happened in another thing I enjoy as well and now I don't really participate in that interest anymore

Gonna end up doing the same with wnba at this rate because it's not compelling discourse to me in something I just want to enjoy as a light interest

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004

By the way, here is your new issue of "Gigantic Asses".
Northwestern legend Veronica Burton

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
I will always laugh at flops that don't affect my rooting interests:

https://x.com/moooopal/status/1839103557049434565

Fate Accomplice
Nov 30, 2006




the WNBA website is absolutely terrible. I was unable to watch my Connecticut Sun last night but scrolling through the WNBA front page there's exactly zero indication of last night's result.

the biggest player to ever happen to the league gets eliminated from rookie playoff contention and I had to check the bracket on the playoff hub before learning it happened.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
WHAT THE gently caress

https://x.com/AnnieCostabile/status/1839482071992910155

The Sky lowkey might be the second worst organization in chicago.

Worst is still the Sox, but maaaaan.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004

By the way, here is your new issue of "Gigantic Asses".
what the hell

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://x.com/Reese10Angel/status/1839484807580914029


gently caress this org man.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004

By the way, here is your new issue of "Gigantic Asses".
GIVE ME ONE NORMAL TEAM IN THIS loving CITY

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://x.com/highkin/status/1839485795222335684

snyprmag
Oct 9, 2005

Angel on the Valkyries would be very fitting

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
I would have thought that there's no way they'd fire her without Angel's express insistence, but unless Reese is doing Online Gaslighting this seems like rank incompetence from the FO

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
Yeah I don't think Spoon is irreplaceable as a coach but if you're going to fire her after one year the players better be in open revolt and that doesn't seem like it was the case. Hard to hold her responsible for how bad the offense/bench was when the roster itself was deeply deeply flawed

Also feel like this is a precursor to not bringing back Chennedy which would make me even angrier

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
I am flummoxed

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004

By the way, here is your new issue of "Gigantic Asses".
https://x.com/jon_greenberg/status/1839490034648461393

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

I would pay to watch a documentary about this if it were to happen. Jim Boylen Jimmy Dugan-ing his way through a WNBA season would be a sight to behold.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

It would end very quickly because the first time Angel Reese has to use a time clock to punch into a game she would be spending the entire next episode of her podcast roasting him so hard he dies of embarrassment

Paying2Lurk
Sep 15, 2023

Tackle reality head-on.
Never stop livin'.

Hey that's pretty hosed, Sky! Seemed like she was doing the best she could with what she had to work with, and your new big star liked her, so way to piss off literally everybody and make your team worse.

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004

By the way, here is your new issue of "Gigantic Asses".
every time they get a good player they demand a trade or leave as quickly as possible.

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

well this loving sucks

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
https://x.com/AnnieCostabile/status/1839515291434316210

Really good stuff

surf rock
Aug 12, 2007

We need more women in STEM, and by that, I mean skateboarding, television, esports, and magic.
What the gently caress Chicago

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Who do they think they’re gonna get to replace her? They’re not breaking the bank and they’re not a supportive environment and their talent is in active revolt, who is gonna come take this job

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
me. I'll do it. but they have to give me PTO for when we play the Liberty

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
I almost died today at the hands of the white wolf.
I don't need the PTO, just give me holiday pay and I'll take the job.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Holy loving poo poo Sabrina ianescu

marioinblack
Sep 21, 2007

Number 1 Bullshit
Great game, they played with an edge and the stars were stars. JJ stuffing Wilson ruled

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

sick rear end game. in the first quarter there were an uncharacteristic amount of miscommunications (passing into an empty lane, kick balls, picks going the wrong way) but the squad just clicked heading into halftime and never let aces get their perimeter shooting going. 2 more like that to wipe away last year.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ˇHola SEA!


breanna is one of the most dominant athletes i've ever seen play any sport

kathmandu
Jul 11, 2004

DeimosRising posted:

breanna is one of the most dominant athletes i've ever seen play any sport

the combination of size and quickness is insane

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

DC Murderverse posted:

Holy loving poo poo Sabrina ianescu

marioinblack posted:

JJ stuffing Wilson ruled

DeimosRising posted:

breanna is one of the most dominant athletes i've ever seen play any sport

she's so loving fun to watch

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Holy loving poo poo Marina Mabrey

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
What a fantastic game this is between the Lynx and Sun.

Stagger_Lee
Mar 25, 2009
Both games were great yesterday. Liberty were a little into overpassing but otherwise looked incredibly strong on both ends.

Stagger_Lee
Mar 25, 2009
I was a little distressed early in the Aces/Liberty game when one of the Aces airballed a 3 and no one in the Brooklyn crowd taunted her for it.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

https://x.com/wnba/status/1840815772982985078?s=46

And now we get like 2 months of speculation about who each team will want to keep

edit: I've gone through the Fever and Sky to see what I think (edit 10/4: added Maria Conde to the Sky's reserve)

Indiana Fever:

Roster:
Kelsey Mitchell (2024)
Erica Wheeler (2024)
Temi Fagbenle (2024)
Katie Lou Samuelson (2025)
NaLyssa Smith (2025)
Lexie Hull (2025)
Kristy Wallace (2025)
Damiris Dantas (2025)
Aliyah Boston (2026)
Victaria Saxton (2026)
Grace Berger (2026)
Caitlin Clark (2027)

6 Players:
Caitlin Clark
Aliyah Boston
Lexie Hull
Kelsey Mitchell
Damiris Dantas
Temi Fagbenle

Likely Picks:

NaLyssa Smith
Katie Lou Stephenson

Chicago Sky:

Roster:
Kaela Davis (2024)
Chennedy Carter (2024)
Diamond DeShields (2024)
Dana Evans (2024)
Michaela Onyenwere (2024)
Brianna Turner (2024)
Isabelle Harrison (2024)
Elizabeth Williams (2025)
Lindsay Allen (2025)
Rachel Banham (2025)
Moriah Jefferson (2025)
Angel Reese (2027)
Kamila Cardoso (2027)

Reserved/Suspended:
Maria Conde

6 Players:
Angel Reese
Kamila Cardoso
Chennedy Carter
Lindsay Allen
Dana Evans
Michaela Onyenwere

Likely Picks:
Elizabeth Williams

DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Oct 5, 2024

kathmandu
Jul 11, 2004

DC Murderverse posted:

Holy loving poo poo Marina Mabrey

Remember when she was on the Sky?

:smith:

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Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

kathmandu posted:

Remember when she was on the Sky?

:smith:

She was asked to do too much on the Sky because there was only her and Chennedy that were offensive threats from the perimeter. She's like the third or fourth option on the Sun, which works so much better for her.

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