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ucbart
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 Posted: 05/19/25 8:03 pm ::: Re: Storm @ Wings - 5/19/25 |
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The Wings are better with Carrington/Arike on the bench. They're an absolute disaster on the court together. The team was far better with Harris at the 1 and Paige off the ball. But Harris went to the bench, never to return again. Same with McCowan.
Arike is a -23 and Carrington is -20.
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| Posted: 05/19/25 8:43 pm ::: Re: Storm @ Wings - 5/19/25 |
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| ucbart wrote: |
The Wings are better with Carrington/Arike on the bench. They're an absolute disaster on the court together. The team was far better with Harris at the 1 and Paige off the ball. But Harris went to the bench, never to return again. Same with McCowan.
Arike is a -23 and Carrington is -20. |
Paige looked a lot better playing off the ball then she has at the point. She's a lot more aggressive in that position IMHO. You can add Ny'Lessa Smith to that list of players being on the bench making Dallas look better.
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| Posted: 05/19/25 8:58 pm ::: |
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| Totally out of left field here, I know this, and it won't happen. But if Dallas could talk Chicago into trading Arike, Smith, and Carrington for Reese, Banham, and Allen I think both teams would be significantly better.
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| Posted: 05/19/25 9:10 pm ::: |
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| Totally out of left field here, I know this, and it won't happen. But if Dallas could talk Chicago into trading Arike, Smith, and Carrington for Reese, Banham, and Allen I think both teams would be significantly better. |
Just Arike for one of Reese or Cardoso. I’m not greedy.
I want to root for her and I know she can be great, but WOW.
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| Posted: 05/19/25 9:17 pm ::: |
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| Michael wrote: |
| Totally out of left field here, I know this, and it won't happen. But if Dallas could talk Chicago into trading Arike, Smith, and Carrington for Reese, Banham, and Allen I think both teams would be significantly better. |
Just Arike for one of Reese or Cardoso. I’m not greedy.
I want to root for her and I know she can be great, but WOW. |
I threw in the other players to try and even out salary issues, not sure how either team is on cap space. It is also players at complimentary positions for each team so you don't end up with too many or not enough players at each spot. Aslo, Reese and Smith on the same team would be WAY TOO MUCH DRAMA for one team... they both want to be a main option in the paint and they would not work well together in my opinion.
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| Posted: 05/19/25 10:11 pm ::: |
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| Michael wrote: |
| Totally out of left field here, I know this, and it won't happen. But if Dallas could talk Chicago into trading Arike, Smith, and Carrington for Reese, Banham, and Allen I think both teams would be significantly better. |
Just Arike for one of Reese or Cardoso. I’m not greedy.
I want to root for her and I know she can be great, but WOW. |
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| Posted: 05/19/25 10:20 pm ::: |
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| Seattle looking a lot better tonight. Maybe that's because they played Dallas?
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| Posted: 05/20/25 7:51 am ::: |
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| The growth of Gabby Williams from the perimeter is awesome to see. She was an All American in college as a 5'11" post player.
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| Posted: 05/20/25 8:32 am ::: |
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| Or move Paige to the second unit and do full on line changes with Quirely getting more playing time with the second unit and Harris starting but playing some with the second unit too and just change out lines every 4 minutes.
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| Posted: 05/20/25 8:41 am ::: |
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| The growth of Gabby Williams from the perimeter is awesome to see. She was an All American in college as a 5'11" post player. |
Williams was a guard in high school. Auriemma has a lot of Team USA players and other five star recruits and I think that is why he played her out of position. Amber Stocks did use her as a small or power forward in her rookie season for the Chicago Sky. But the next year James Wade had her playing backup point guard most of the time.
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| "I like the high jump more than basketball right now," said Williams, a 5-foot-11 junior point guard at Reed (Sparks, Nev.), who can dunk a softball. "I like the atmosphere -- there's no trash talking. Either you are good or you're not." |
https://www.espn.com/espnw/athletes-life/story/_/id/8831325/gabby-williams-making-mark-basketball-court-high-jump
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| For Gabby Williams, the 5-foot-11 guard from Reno, Nev., being great is not only a dream, but her expectation. |
https://prospectsnation.com/story/gabby-williams-connecticut
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| Posted: 05/20/25 2:01 pm ::: |
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| ucbart wrote: |
| The growth of Gabby Williams from the perimeter is awesome to see. She was an All American in college as a 5'11" post player. |
Williams was a guard in high school. Auriemma has a lot of Team USA players and other five star recruits and I think that is why he played her out of position. Amber Stocks did use her as a small or power forward in her rookie season for the Chicago Sky. But the next year James Wade had her playing backup point guard most of the time.
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| "I like the high jump more than basketball right now," said Williams, a 5-foot-11 junior point guard at Reed (Sparks, Nev.), who can dunk a softball. "I like the atmosphere -- there's no trash talking. Either you are good or you're not." |
https://www.espn.com/espnw/athletes-life/story/_/id/8831325/gabby-williams-making-mark-basketball-court-high-jump
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| For Gabby Williams, the 5-foot-11 guard from Reno, Nev., being great is not only a dream, but her expectation. |
https://prospectsnation.com/story/gabby-williams-connecticut |
She could've been a guard in high school, but at UCONN, where she had guard like skills as a post player, she did not and COULD not, shoot like one. That was definitely developed as her pro career has gone on.
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