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Stormeo
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Silky Johnson
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 Posted: 10/08/21 10:40 pm ::: |
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| Good game. Aces come up short again, what are they missing... :? |
Heart. |
+1. They weren't missing anyone at the beginning of the year on paper. |
Except the one player they lost was the most important one.
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NYSports56
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| Posted: 10/08/21 10:45 pm ::: |
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| I don't think either team displayed a lack of heart tonight.
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Tally24
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| Posted: 10/08/21 10:51 pm ::: |
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I thought the game was like, fine? From an officiating standpoint. It’s unfortunate that Phoenix was perpetually unable to guard a step up screen. Switching seemed to be enough of a change to win.
The one complaint I have is that Liz definitely fouled Diana right before Williams fouled Peddy. That’s my obligatory Mercury complaint. We whining all the way to the finals though. 😱🥵 |
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Iluvacc
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| Posted: 10/08/21 11:32 pm ::: |
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| It'll be curious to see how the Merc play Game 5. They've been pretty successful running with the Aces but without Nurse or Cunningham they may not have the depth to do that. OTOH if they slow the game down they let out-of-shape Cambage become a factor, unlike the first four games. |
For the first half the Merc effectively slowed the game down without Cambage making an impact |
When the game is about pace control, it favors the team with the better PG. For all the "Point Gawd" hype, in this game the best was Skylar Diggins. |
THIS ☝🏽
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Iluvacc
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| Posted: 10/08/21 11:38 pm ::: |
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At the Olympic break Phoenix had a 9-10 record and Chicago had a 10-10 record.
I am sure we all had these two teams as finalists. |
Nobody had these two teams as finalists at the end of the regular season |
Nobody had these two teams as finalists at the end of round 1 😂
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| Posted: 10/09/21 12:47 am ::: |
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Just watched the replay as I couldn't watch live. So impressed with BG - my favorite player to watch. She was the consistent force working the entire game to keep her team in it. And BT on the glass. DT made big shots down the stretch but her point total is a bit misleading I feel - too many FTs awarded on some unsportsmanlike fouls that should have been called against her IMO.
Not sure about why Wilson was getting so much hate in the comments here but I thought she had a good game overall too. OK so she got blocked at the end but that was a terribly designed play that did not put her in a position to be successful. Hold your head high A'ja. Plum is my other favorite to watch. I expect big things from her next season.
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Tally24
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| Posted: 10/09/21 12:49 am ::: |
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| After watching the 4th quarter over again, I’m not so sure that Gray’s inbound was clean re her feet. |
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| Posted: 10/09/21 4:13 am ::: |
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For real they need to leave that ish to the fans & social media team accounts. It would actually make more sense if they were the Phx local commentators carrying on like this.
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| If I hear Lobo and/or Ruocco unconditionally call Taurasi the GOAT one more time, some hapless stuffed animal is gonna pick up frequent flyer miles. |
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| Posted: 10/09/21 7:28 am ::: |
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Yep yep. Some of the comments are hilarious and NOT basketball related 😉 When you try to body a player up and not let them move, that is a foul, IE freedom of movement, then you get schooled for doing it and the whiners want to complain about the schooling. How about you actually learn to play without illegally doing that and keep a player in front of you. The same player trying to illegally body a player also jumps into people all year getting calls when she initiated the contact and defenders have had good position on her, oh the irony but alas there are some who just can’t put their bias aside to enjoy it.
The Aces have no excuses, they got it handed to them by a beat down crew and yet the venom is toward a player who virtually played on 1 and half legs and the stuff of legends but all while ignoring there own garbage behind the scenes while calling out other players - bay bay with the gun gun, and cabbage with the N word. You can’t make this stuff up. Priceless.
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| Posted: 10/09/21 7:44 am ::: |
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| Ugh...I really hope Chicago wins the finals. Diana might be the GOAT but she's also really not gotten any more likeable over the course of her career, unfortunately. |
+1000
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| Posted: 10/09/21 7:50 am ::: |
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I see at no point will anyone hold Taurasi accountable on court. Just like 2008 when she punched Tina Thompson in the gut and no foul. And Absolutely like 2014 when she pushed off Sloot to score the go ahead basket in the finals. Now in 2021 when there are other stories that fans want to see they are goi g back to the Taurasi in the finals Is a superstar. Sure she is, cuz she gets to do whatever she wants on the court. Tell me why they blew the whistle when she dislodged an unsuspecting Cambage on an out-of-bounds play that they blew the whistle? To do nothing? Good luck Sky playing 5-on-8 plus God knows who else passes down these edicts that Taurasi gets to run around and do whatever the f*** she pleases. Oh yeah, and for the Go ahead 3 BG gets to block the defender like she’s a fullback.
The irritating thing is I love Taurasi. But I can’t stand when the forces the move things favor her to the detriment of other players. |
+1 minus the "love" part 😒
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| Posted: 10/09/21 8:10 am ::: |
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| I didn't have a horse in this race, so I just watched as a fan of the sport. What I saw was a great back and forth game with the go-ahead points scored off a lucky ricochet and an unlucky bump. Taurasi dribbled around and, with the clock running down, forced up a shot that was blocked. The ball got knocked over to Peddy, who tried to dribble to a more open space to shoot. When she stopped suddenly, Williams who was chasing her tried to stop too but couldn't. You can see on the replay that Riquna had her hands back and ended up bumping Peddy with her chest. She was not trying to block the shot. So, it was basically a random sequence. No one did anything great, no one did anything terrible. To then draw the conclusion that one team played terrifically and the other choked is ridiculous. Both teams played well. As far as I can tell, both teams showed heart -- that's how you get back and forth games. In the end, someone had to win and someone had to lose. As for the last 4.6 seconds, Laimbeer has never been good at drawing up plays after a timeout. We saw five years of that in New York. But I don't think what happened in this game merits all these judgements that people are making about individual players.
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| Posted: 10/09/21 8:27 am ::: |
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To be clear: A'ja Wilson is a top tier, MVP caliber, first team, championship level player. The Aces falling short the last two seasons, to me, aren't a huge indictment on her. This is basketball. Fate can swing wildly. A'ja did everything to keep her team in this game and in this series. The wind swung the other way. It was a heartbreaker loss. This doesn't make her a pretender or that she's been "exposed" as an inferior player.
It sucks for the Aces. I'm very interested to see what they do in the off-season and what they bring to the next season. They will win a chip soon. I think a coaching change might be in order BUT a coach isn't always the deciding factor. PHX and Chicago fans have been blasting their coaches all season but they got them to the finals on the backs of their talented rosters.
As elated as I am for Phoenix and my favorite players to have another shot, I want to see Vegas succeed. They are a franchise that I think reflects well on what this league can be: non-NBA owner, a true home arena, great outreach and marketing, etc. The league needs more Las Vegas Aces.
That being said, go win a 4th chip to cement your legacies and then let the young guns get theirs!
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| Posted: 10/09/21 8:35 am ::: |
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| the bad thing if the Merc win is that we have to hear the Merc fans whine for several more games. |
Even for some other Merc fans it's pretty painful to wade through :/
And man, Sandy really sucks hard huh. So useless, just like we've heard on every page of every Merc game thread all season. So many heathy players and she got them nowhere.
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