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SportsPageMike
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Posted: 05/17/10 11:09 pm ::: New Column--> This Week in the WNBA |
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This Week in the WNBA: Week Zero
By Richard Cohen
May 17, 2010
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Here's the idea. The WNBA schedulers, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that Monday shall be a dark day throughout the 2010 WNBA calendar. Not a single game is slated to take place on any of the 14 Mondays encompassed by the regular season. So to fill this gaping hole in your WNBA lives, I'll be bringing you a weekly roundup of everything that's been going on in the league. |
Plus award predictions!
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SportsPageMike
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Posted: 05/24/10 9:01 pm ::: This Week in the WNBA: Week One |
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This Week in the WNBA: Week One
By Richard Cohen
May 24, 2010
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The Claw is Out
Most weeks, the section of this column dedicated to transactions will be pretty small and tucked away towards the end. A lot of weeks, it'll probably say 'none' and leave it at that. Meaningful trades and pickups don't happen very often with only 12 teams and a limited collection of impact players. This week, however, saw a player waived on Wednesday, signed on Friday, and starting for her new team on Saturday, putting up a 19pt/3reb/5ast performance in 30 minutes that showed just what she's capable of. So goes a pretty typical week in the weird and wild career of one Chamique Holdsclaw. |
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shrrew
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Posted: 05/25/10 7:15 am ::: |
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Phoenix goes to Tulsa on Tuesday night for an ESPN2 game that should be one of the faster-paced matchups in WNBA history. It might not be pretty, but it certainly ought to be a helter-skelter, non-stop game of basketball.
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I am inclined to believe this after what peeps posting here have said about Tulsa's style of play. I think they will be a good opponent for the Phoenix Mercury. They like a little chaos!
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caune
Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Posts: 17919 Location: Valley of the Bun
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Posted: 05/25/10 9:13 am ::: |
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shrrew wrote: |
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Phoenix goes to Tulsa on Tuesday night for an ESPN2 game that should be one of the faster-paced matchups in WNBA history. It might not be pretty, but it certainly ought to be a helter-skelter, non-stop game of basketball.
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I am inclined to believe this after what peeps posting here have said about Tulsa's style of play. I think they will be a good opponent for the Phoenix Mercury. They like a little chaos! |
Considering The Merc were total chaos against the Storm this game could turn out to be ugly as the day is long!
Good idea for the column!
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SportsPageMike
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Posted: 05/31/10 3:14 am ::: This Week in the WNBA: Week Two |
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This Week in the WNBA: Week Two
By Richard Cohen
May 31, 2010
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In Over his Head or just Over-Zellous?
When it was announced that Nolan Richardson had been appointed head coach/GM/all-purpose Commander-in-Chief of the Tulsa Shock, eyebrows were raised in the women's basketball community. He might be a coaching legend in Oklahoma, but he'd never coached women, never coached pros and had his own '40 Minutes of Hell' system that wasn't going to change regardless of his personnel. Also, since leaving the University of Arkansas in 2002 amid a storm of racial controversy, the only coaching he'd done was with national teams in places like Mexico and Panama - not exactly well-known basketball hotbeds. |
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Richyyy
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BCBG25
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I hated it that they kept Anne Donovan for starters. That was the same stupid thing LA did with Michael Cooper.
It's hard to dismiss winning coaches like Cooper and AD, I'll give you that, but I see the same pattern here. They are totally passive on the sidelines, they can't even muster up the energy to get a technical these days.
I swear that against DC Anne Donovan must've nodded off when Harding started going off on Mitchell. And she's clearly living off reputation as far as her post coaching is concerned. Tiff went from being a key reserve in 2008, and dare I say the main reason the Liberty couldn't keep with Detroit in the ECF, to being completely lost last year and this.
Coincidentally, ever since we lost Potter and brought on Donovan. Make of that what you will...
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Richyyy
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Posted: 06/08/10 2:04 pm ::: |
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Yeah, it's not like it's impossible to be a good coach while remaining quiet and reserved on the sidelines - Phil Jackson doesn't rant and rave much, for example - but when the team sucks it just looks kinda lame. She's so stoic and unmoved over there, it'd just be nice to see more signs of life. Especially when the team is playing like it's half-asleep as well. Shout and scream and pick up an occasinoal technical, even if it's just for the fans more than the team. Show everybody that you're actually awake and make us think you vaguely give a shit.
Or carry on being quiet and stoic but get the team playing significantly better. That'd work too.
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norwester
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Richyyy
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Posted: 06/21/10 9:19 am ::: |
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This Week in the WNBA: Week Five is up, should anyone fancy some reading on a typical WNBA-free Monday:
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Parker Parked, Sparks Spinning
Remember last week when I mentioned Candace Parker's recurring shoulder injury but said "don't be surprised to see her back out for their next game on Friday?" Well that idea was scuppered late on Thursday night when Los Angeles Sparks GM Penny Toler put out a brief press release entitled 'Sparks Forward Candace Parker to Miss Remainder of 2010 Season.' As it turns out, Parker's shoulder dislocation last week has finally led to the decision to have surgery that she's probably needed for several years now. Exactly how long she'll be out is currently unknown, but she's also likely out of the 2010 World Championships in the Czech Republic in late September. Team USA will miss her, as will the WNBA as a whole, but both of those organisations have players who can step up to fill the hole. The Sparks, on the other hand, are going to have to find a way to compete without their superstar, and it's not going to be easy. |
Also to be found in this week's installment, Seventeen Syllables of Concision: The WNBA in Haiku:
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Storm blowing through the
West. Execution, teamwork
and Jackson destroys. |
and others...
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Posted: 06/21/10 2:15 pm ::: |
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