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NBA and WNBA writer for ESPN. Co-host of the Fabulous @peltoncast.bsky.social. Pocket square enthusiast. Using numbers to learn about the game.
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I think you'd have to say at this point that most of the recent draft-based trades for players in their prime have worked out: Gobert, Mitchell, Bridges to a degree. And Durant certainly isn't a comparison to this deal.
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Charles was here for a minute. I hadn't realized how bad Vivians' shooting percentage got by the end of last season after she moved to the bench.
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If you forced me to pick one player, I'd say Victoria Vivians, depending how the sides left things last year. Had the same thought as Richard as far as Charles but now that they have more cap space, I think it makes a Samuelson trade less likely. (And wasn't likely in the first place.)
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Don't speak it into existence!
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June 24 in Seattle?
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Possible but I think wing size is probably a more important need right now.
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Even the guy who shot 29% in the regular season!
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Yeah, I think that's a reasonable counterargument. But I do think you're responsible for your limbs even if there's not any intent.
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I don't think any contact to the head should automatically be a flagrant, but when it happens with a windup like that, it's absolutely a reckless play.
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Worth noting the absence of Jessica Shepard for EuroBasket. I think Minnesota felt that tonight.
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I don't think it's bad here at all. But unlike Seth, I don't encourage it lol
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It does to a degree but a key part of the philosophy is not wanting player ratings to change when players go from good teams to bad teams and vice versa.
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Minnesota is undefeated no more. Erica Wheeler's key 3 started an 8-0 Storm game to end the run. She had 20 points and nine assists, Nneka Ogwumike had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Skylar Diggins reached 5,000 career points on a fun night for Seattle fans.
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Will teams actually learn that lesson?
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If it was obvious that was wrong, the market would say otherwise. It's literally putting your money where your mouth is.
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Agreed
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Storm fans do it to start both halves and often the fourth quarter too, which was definitely not the original idea.
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UW basketball does it and I tried unsuccessfully to make the change back when I worked for the Storm. The 2011 Minnesota game where the crowd had to stand through an Early Agler Timeout (TM) was a key impetus.
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Encouraging to hear!
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I found George Dohrmann's book "Switching Fields" compelling on the topic: www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...
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That's the point! They've tried literally everything possible in terms of managers and it hasn't worked. The problems run way deeper in terms of how players develop here.
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Feels like an embarrassing World Cup would still force change, even if probably not the changes that should be made.
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I mean they do at least usually fire the GM at some point!
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Is the upside here that this stretch will convince people the problems are bigger than any coach?
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Also one of my favorite stories to write came when Quigley returned to Seattle for the 2017 All-Star Game and ended up winning the first of a record four 3-point contests: www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...
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Social media development is not linear!
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It seems to me that the better NBA analogy is ratings, where wouldn't you know, whatever I personally dislike happens to be the reason they're down. None of the posts about BlueSky's user base I've seen has actually bothered finding out why people stopped coming.