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| I’m hoping that Howard and Stokes are the starters with that hybrid 4 being utilized only for stretches. This draft demonstrates they absolutely intend to use it. The questions are how often and with what combos of players? |
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Yeah, I could see Stokes, Howard, [some wing], Laney, and Ionescu as the starters. Odom started most games last year at SF but her numbers are not really what you want from a starter.
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| Posted: 04/17/21 4:16 pm ::: |
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| I think telling Whitcomb she'd at least have a chance to start might well have been part of getting her to sign. So she might get first crack at it. |
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| Posted: 04/17/21 4:28 pm ::: |
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I’m torn. I totally get what they’re doing. I get why they think it can work. I’m just not so sure I think it can work. 😂 |
Yeah, I'm rooting for them and trying to keep an open mind, but I'm skeptical. In fairness to Kolb and Hopkins, this really is like Year 1 given that the team had very little practice time last season to work on new systems or do player development. No practice players was another missing piece. They will have at least 4 new starters this year, and maybe 5 if they go small. It's basically a new team. We have no idea what they're going to look like.
As far as the future goes, the Liberty only have three guaranteed contracts next year: Howard, Laney, and Whitcomb. If at all, they won't face a salary crunch until 2024. So, free agents are still an option.
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| Posted: 04/17/21 4:45 pm ::: |
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Yeah man. Plus the injuries they suffered after last season started. One thing I do strongly believe is that Onyenwere is the best of their small ball 4 spot options if that’s the route they choose. She’s better than Willoughby or Odom near the basket (finishing, footwork, back to the basket) and she was strong enough defensively to make Collier work in the post in the Texas tournament game. With strength being one of Collier’s chief assets. Onyenwere also can rebound in the midst of several other players. Odom is similarly tough in traffic, but Onyenwere’s offensive versatility separates the two players in that sense, I believe.
You can only know how it will work once she’s out there against WNBA players, but as I far as me speculating at what their plan is, I think that’s definitely it. Maybe not day 1, but at some point moving forward as Onyenwere acclimates and develops.
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| Posted: 04/19/21 11:02 pm ::: |
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Liberty ready to reboot at full strength after lost 2020 season
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| “We’re looking at this list and seeing pick by pick go,” Kolb recounted, “and we’re like, ‘man, there’s, there’s no way DiDi (Richards) is going to be there (at No. 17),’ and it was fun to be around that and then finally DiDi is there we do backflips. |
NYL_WNBA_FAN, it sounds like you were right. Even if Mack was there at #17, they probably would have taken Didi.
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“I think what we do have is a very clear idea of the places that we need to adjust, and it’s more about on court, it’s more about the basketball side of things,” Hopkins said before the draft. “We have to get more athletic and more versatile defensively.”
“The problem was we had very little practice time and a very young team,” he said of last year’s team. “And so we made the choice to go with one coverage, try to get good at it, try to master the ins and outs and then we can have this really nice set of data to look at coming into this year and say ‘OK where do we need to make adjustments?’” |
More emphasis on defense. Also, the data set purity rationale for using one coverage last season. They discussed it previously in a podcast I posted a while back.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/ny-liberty-hopkins-kolb-ionescu-20210419-htptup223fczrh2x6ekvwol4tm-story.html
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| Posted: 04/20/21 11:41 am ::: |
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Lynnie?
Barfly is growing on me. This is New York -- we like being edgy.
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| Posted: 04/20/21 12:28 pm ::: |
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| Posted: 04/20/21 5:54 pm ::: |
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Lynnie?
Barfly is growing on me. This is New York -- we like being edgy. |
Yeah, but then we'd be the first team to have another team's fans as our mascot.
(Love ya, Brigade.)
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| Posted: 04/20/21 5:58 pm ::: |
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Barfly is an adverb
If they maintain a dog mascot, Barklay is the right answer
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| Posted: 04/20/21 7:05 pm ::: |
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| Barfly is an adverb |
It's an adverb just like family, supply, and holy.
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| Please no Bark- puns, or we're gonna end up with Barcoff as the damn mascot.
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| Please no Bark- puns, or we're gonna end up with Barcoff as the damn mascot. |
They should use a mascot that's not an animal. Studies show that animals have no intrinsic interest in the Liberty.
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| Posted: 04/20/21 8:40 pm ::: |
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| Please no Bark- puns, or we're gonna end up with Barcoff as the damn mascot. |
They should use a mascot that's not an animal. Studies show that animals have no intrinsic interest in the Liberty. |
My dog likes to watch basketball games.
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| Posted: 04/21/21 6:33 am ::: |
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My apologies if this is not the appropriate place for this but it doesn't seem the collectables section gets much interest...
I have an extra XXL Nike Rebel Ionescu jersey. Ordering these has been quite an experience. It's far too big for me. Would anyone be interested in buying it? PM me if interested.
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| Posted: 04/21/21 9:13 am ::: |
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My apologies if this is not the appropriate place for this but it doesn't seem the collectables section gets much interest...
I have an extra XXL Nike Rebel Ionescu jersey. Ordering these has been quite an experience. It's far too big for me. Would anyone be interested in buying it? PM me if interested.
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For whatever it's worth... I don't see why you'd need to apologize. You're trying to sell ONE jersey if someone here is interested. Seems fine to me. I hope you're successful.
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| Posted: 04/21/21 10:10 am ::: |
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My apologies if this is not the appropriate place for this but it doesn't seem the collectables section gets much interest...
I have an extra XXL Nike Rebel Ionescu jersey. Ordering these has been quite an experience. It's far too big for me. Would anyone be interested in buying it? PM me if interested.
If inappropriate, mods feel free to delete. |
For whatever it's worth... I don't see why you'd need to apologize. You're trying to sell ONE jersey if someone here is interested. Seems fine to me. I hope you're successful. |
Ha. Just cautious about spam since there technically is a section for this but no one really goes there.
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