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[WNBA 09]

Tonights games were not good for national televised games IMO. Alot of sloppy play a lot of turnovers along with air balls all over the place in both games. Not to mention both games werent all that close a all and The not so many fans in attendance didnt help much either. If i was viewing the WNBA for the first time tonight i dont think i would tune in anymore. There were times were i found myself dozing off during the games and ive been a fan since its inception. Idk if its the commentators or just my lack luster attitude but over all i would give tonights ESPN 2 Double Header a C+. But maybe thats just me , what about you guys out there ?

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[MuneravenMN]

I thought the Phoenix Minnesota game was pretty interesting, actually. Lots of pretty shots and most of the game was close until the end there. A flagrant foul and a technical, too!

It might have been more fun to watch on TV if they'd shown about a dozen people in my section, including me, all having a stroke simultaneously over Penny Taylor's constant traveling. There was much red-faced, creative bellowing at the refs. It was like a demented WNBA choir there for awhile.

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[Luuuc]

I haven't watched the games yet, but on paper I certainly can't fault ESPN2 for showing them.
It's unfortunate that they didn't deliver to potential, but that's sport for ya.

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[Force10rulz]

Don't know if you watched the Best of the west beat the beast of the east but we shut them down. I thought the Storm played sloppy just a couple times and let up just once in the second, after that they tightened the noose and didn't let up. The Dream are good, but they will get better.
These two game have been the far better teams to watch on TV in awhile, imo.

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[braveniler58]

Man, I'm tired of people complaining about the televised games. I don't care if they sucked or not, I got to watch some games on TV, that's all I care about.

They try their best to pick games that'll be appealing to the watchers, which is why Phoenix and LA has most Nationally-Televised games.

Sometimes the games live up to the billing, sometimes they don't. Deal with it.

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[GEF34]

I personally like the commentators, but that's just mean, I usually don't find much problems with them anyways. As far as the level of play goes what are you suggesting, the teams that played shouldn't have been picked, or the games shouldn't just be on tv because of the possibility of bad play. It's not as if the teams decided to play bad because they are on tv, or the WNBA pre-screen games and choose to air these, they are live games as others have mentioned some live up to the billing and some don't quite reach it. On paper before the season started these looked like potentially good games to show, and now with Atlanta and Seattle being the top two teams in the league who was to know Seattle would blow out Atlanta.

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[FS02]

I give the games a B- (mind you, my team won--maybe it should be an A! ) and the presentation gets a C.

You can't have triple-OT barn burners every time.. if Atlanta hadn't been at the end of a long road swing they would have looked better.

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[WNBA 09]

[Shades]

[GEF34]

[GEF34]

[myrtle]

I thought the games were quite interesting and entertaining. It's not always 'beautiful'. So what? Either you like to watch or you don't. It was a great choice of games for a double header. And I too really enjoyed seeing full size and not the partials or 'not-at-alls' I've come to expect with Live InAccess.

[jammerbirdi]

[mekanos]

For some people, a game is like a chapter in an unfolding story.
There are many things to enjoy there: the character development, the scene, plot movement, the action, and so much more. We're still pretty close to the beginning of this book (season).

For others, each game is a complete story / book / event unto itself. Disconnected.

Your expectations and enjoyment can vary widely depending upon your perspective.

[sambista]

sometimes, when you're so hungry for a thing (in this case, lots of w games on a watchable medium), expectation exceeds the hunger. i just knew that the commentators overpredicting an exciting second game would be a jinx.

the phoenix-minny game was fun to watch; the second, not as much. but i was glad to see both of them in glorious hd and with good commentary. sloppy play in both games, and angel looked NOTHING like she looked in the l.a. game. that was disappointing. but i also got to see some players i'd never seen play before, and that was great.

for the opportunity to see a double-header on espn and not whatever signal nbatv manages to pick up, and because live access is a joke, i give it an A. for the games themselves, i give them a B+.

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[#1Margofan]

Bitch when games are not on TV, then Bitch when they are!!


What in the hell would make you folks happy??

[Luuuc]

[#1Margofan]

[caune]

Even though my team lost I enjoyed having two games in a row to watch.
Only thing I didn't like was the announcers in the Merc Lynx game referring to the game as an "appetizer"
the Champions?
An appetizer? hmmmm

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[WNBA 09]

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[pilight]

I thought the games were just fine. Yay ESPN!

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[Queenie]

I was a bit disappointed in the Dream-Storm game, given the sloppy start it got off to, but I was quite happy with the Merc-Lynx game, so it all comes out in the wash.

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