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Just occurred to me that if everything goes according to the current plan, the Mystics have played their last game in Capital One Arena. After all those years being mocked for raising attendance banners, presumably if they finally won a title this year, they'd raise their first proper banner in that practice facility before their first ever game there.
Would be a hell of a way to open there, but a bit of a shame that it cuts 16,000 off the theoretical attendance. |
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| Posted: 08/28/18 3:43 pm ::: |
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Just occurred to me that if everything goes according to the current plan, the Mystics have played their last game in Capital One Arena. After all those years being mocked for raising attendance banners, presumably if they finally won a title this year, they'd raise their first proper banner in that practice facility before their first ever game there.
Would be a hell of a way to open there, but a bit of a shame that it cuts 16,000 off the theoretical attendance. |
Be much better for the Dream to raise the flag in the newly renovated Phillips arena.
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| Posted: 08/28/18 4:36 pm ::: |
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| Hawkins only has five years of WNBA experience anyway, so would be restricted even if she was out of contract. |
How many years is it until you become unrestricted again? |
You need six, but obviously you also have to be out of contract, and not everyone is after their sixth season. |
Tianna Hawkins has a $70K contract with the Mystics for the 2019 season, according to the spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PsHkvE7SJtsV7fq7QHt7UfKPQHJg7_uLgZIkbwPbdi0/edit#gid=307417063[url]
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| Posted: 08/28/18 5:02 pm ::: |
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| Mystics will be crowded inside with Delle Donne, Meesseman and Hawkins at PF. They need a true center to backup Sanders. Hawkins gets killed, even against the likes of E. Williams, Paris, Lavender, Dolson and Achonwa.
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| Posted: 08/28/18 5:17 pm ::: |
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| Mystics will be crowded inside with Delle Donne, Meesseman and Hawkins at PF. They need a true center to backup Sanders. Hawkins gets killed, even against the likes of E. Williams, Paris, Lavender, Dolson and Achonwa. |
Yeah, but Meesseman's a little bigger and can play inside at the 5 when necessary. They also still have Krystal Thomas for now. If you can keep her on the vet minimum, that's a solid use for your 12th spot if they've got room. |
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| Posted: 08/28/18 5:31 pm ::: |
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| Mystics will be crowded inside with Delle Donne, Meesseman and Hawkins at PF. They need a true center to backup Sanders. Hawkins gets killed, even against the likes of E. Williams, Paris, Lavender, Dolson and Achonwa. |
Yeah, but Meesseman's a little bigger and can play inside at the 5 when necessary. They also still have Krystal Thomas for now. If you can keep her on the vet minimum, that's a solid use for your 12th spot if they've got room. |
Curious who they draft? A backup PG and keep Toliver at SG?
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| Posted: 08/28/18 6:10 pm ::: |
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As horrendous as the Mystics history has been since day one, I’m happy for Mystics fans. They should be able to get past Atlanta easily enough, but Seattle will be a much tougher assignment. I think the Mystics reach their first ever WNBA finals, but they won’t win it all. Still something to be proud about considering how jinxed this teams been.
It’s unfortunate though, that as a prize for finally getting over that hump, they get degraded into a shitty tiny arena next year. If i were a Mystics fan, I’d be very excited about the possibilities of this season, but absolutely pissed off with their future, soon to be new home.
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| Posted: 08/28/18 6:29 pm ::: |
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| Mystics will be crowded inside with Delle Donne, Meesseman and Hawkins at PF. They need a true center to backup Sanders. Hawkins gets killed, even against the likes of E. Williams, Paris, Lavender, Dolson and Achonwa. |
Yeah, but Meesseman's a little bigger and can play inside at the 5 when necessary. They also still have Krystal Thomas for now. If you can keep her on the vet minimum, that's a solid use for your 12th spot if they've got room. |
Curious who they draft? A backup PG and keep Toliver at SG? |
They needed that at times this year. Once Thibault went to the lineups with both Cloud and Toliver starting, he didn't have anyone to run the team behind them, so when they both rested together it could be a real shambles. The roster's pretty crowded, so it's going to be interesting to see who falls off the end. Currie's probably gone to make room, as long as they can bring Ruffin-Pratt back at a reasonable price. If someone else wants to overpay TRP, she might be gone. They probably keep Walker-Kimbrough another year because she's a cheap backup, even though she's been barely used most of this season.
The priorities will be re-signing Sanders and Cloud, and given how important Sanders has been this year they might even core her (Cloud's an RFA, so not going anywhere). All of which is a long-winded way of saying that yes, if it comes down to purely a positional-need choice, a genuine point guard is the most obvious hole. But they could also pick up one of those many, many replacement-level PGs off the free agent scrap heap to do the same job, and just take Best Player Available with the pick. |
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| Posted: 08/29/18 9:59 am ::: |
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Things change so quickly ...
Assuming EDD has the dreaded acronym, the Mystics are done this year and without her next season. The new gym will comfortably fit the "crowds", I'm afraid, who will be watching Emma be good but not great, and Aerial Powers show why basketball IQ matters.
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| Posted: 09/15/18 3:33 am ::: |
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Things change so quickly ...
Assuming EDD has the dreaded acronym, the Mystics are done this year and without her next season. The new gym will comfortably fit the "crowds", I'm afraid, who will be watching Emma be good but not great, and Aerial Powers show why basketball IQ matters. |
Well thank god this didn't happen
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| Posted: 09/23/18 9:49 am ::: |
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| Posted: 09/23/18 10:23 am ::: |
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| Posted: 09/23/18 12:50 pm ::: |
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| . . . and Aerial Powers show why basketball IQ matters. |
I laughed when I read this line.
So absolutely true and on point, yet hilarious at the same time.
In eight words summing up her entire basketball playing history.
Physical talent will only take one so far.
And I am really happy to see a post, any post, from plight. Welcome back.
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