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[jersey_stupka]

it was the best of halves (1st)
it was the worst of halves (2nd)

i can't decide if i want the libs to move to the western confernence or just blow my brains out.

the libs we dazed and confused in the second half. and the comets shda been drug tested...cuz they looked dazed and confused in the first half.

have never heard so many bones hitting hardwood...the refs really blew big time..the game was getting out of hand and control...they shda done something.

i have a feeling it was the fucking partridge family song that the garden was playing at the dopest time...come on, get happy...that really put the nail in the coffin.

there is nothing worse that playing like you're outta your mind for 20 minutes and then imploding on your home court.

yes, i am calling for patty to be fired...cuz she shd have done something, anything to help stop the slide...

dayum...double dayum...

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[jersey_stupka]

btw...lena williams of the NYTs was in the house...so expect the Times to cover this fiasco...

Donna O. was in the house...and i hope she does sumthin' about the idiyots that were wearing the striped shirts..

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[rebkell]

Hindsight is 20/20 sometimes, but I do believe the reserves have been playing well lately, and they didn't get much time in the 2nd half, at least I don't recall them getting much. I can understand her not playing them, but they might have given the starters a blow and the outcome might have been a bit different. Also, the Baby was a bit too eager to put up shots.

[sambista]

i just finished watching the (taped) game. what else can you say but "welcome to heartbreak hotel?"

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[thesixthwoman]

[jammerbirdi]

Well if it makes you feel better, T, I'm not all that happy about this game either. Here's my ying and yang. First the happy stuff, if you can call it that.

1. Happy from the bottom of my heart that Tina isn't seriously injured. I have no fucking idea why she's even playing this much so soon after giving birth. As I said, the Comets season was not in need of saving, we have Tari and Raz and Sancho at the 4 and they're in shape, talented, experienced, and largely IN TUNE with each other. Tina's health should be the most primary concern when considering anything about #7. It should be about her health. It was freaky to see her balled up like that on the floor. You were there, Tara, tell me, was not the mood in the Garden apprehensive at that sight? It made me sick.

2. Happy for the win. We needed back to back wins and to keep the pressure on SAC and we got them.

3. Happy to see the Comets were able to put on a comeback. Not that I ever doubted them.

4. Happy the game was exciting for the TV audience and all of us.

Okay now here's the part that matters in terms of the Comets' health.

People are saying Tina got her game back? That she won this game tonight for the Comets? Oooh. People we just beat the Mystics by 18 points and Tina played 15 minutes and took TWO shots. With 1:40 left in this game (approx.) we were down by 7. (I think) Down the whole damn game by as much as what, 17? Tina's 17 points and 8 rebounds doesn't mean a damn thing. We barely won this game and, honestly, it looked like the REFs were on acid or something.

For much of this game the Comets played flat footed matador defense. And on offense it was just that typical one on one stuff that has suddenly appeared with Tina's return and harkens back to the bad old Comets of the last two (or more) seasons. So don't tell me Tina won this game for us. If she hadn't started and played THIRTY FIVE MINUTES, and if Raz and Tari and Sancho had played her minutes, I have no doubts the game would have been better played by the Comets on both sides of the floor and would have been a much closer game throughout.

Beyond the things I stated above I don't know what to be that happy about regarding this game. It's a very bad preview of what might be in store for the Comets down the stretch, but probably, unfortunately, minus the unlikely comeback.

And what about playing powerhouse teams like the Storm or the Sun?

I just don't like this Comets team I'm seeing now and I don't know how anyone can be so happy about the way the team played tonight. We stunk. We got some breaks with the refs and hit some clutch shots and stole a game away from a team that had whipped our asses for 38.5 minutes.

Remember this. Swoopes came back and scored like 25 or something, against the Liberty, 6 weeks after giving birth. But when the playoffs came she rarely got in the game.

Tina should be in street clothes and not taking elbows to her midsection.

Tari Phillups has WAY more game right now than she's being allowed to show. She played 6 minutes. Raz was great against DC but tonight she played half the game. Sancho played TWO minutes.

And Tina played 35.

And Van is probably all smiles.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

[Str8_Butta]

I hope Meka can get out of this shooting slump that she's in, her 3pts shot is non existent so far this season. I like it when she attacks the basket, also when she shoot's off the dribble (though that hasn't been there either). I was very pleased with her defense on Sheryl, that block in the first half had me jumping with excitment.

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WNBA fan since 1997

[accommodatingly]

NYT runs a real bylined story, as promised:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/sports/basketball/28liberty.html?

FWIW I thought Christon (with some help from Loree Moore, and more help from the refs) lost the game for the Libs: I know she's got heart and hustle, and her pair of O-boards followed by a layup was pretty cool, but, um, shot selection? shot clock? especially when you're up by a few late in the game?

From a Lynx fan to all you Lib fans: at least your teams' meltdowns are exciting to watch.

Should be a fun game at the casino tomorrow.

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[Genero36]

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[jammerbirdi]

[jammerbirdi]

[jammerbirdi]

Here's a stat for you.

The Comets had 22 assists against the Mystics on Wed and just 12 last night.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

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All of The Comets' 1997 boxscores are right here...

http://web.archive.org/web/19990224202214/www.wnba.com/Comets/schedule97.html

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I ain't got a home

[Queenie]

Written last night, in that wonderful state of sleep deprivation.

This, my fellow fans, was the very definition of a choke job. We had this game in the bag. We should have won it going away. Instead, boneheaded mistakes by everyone eligible to make boneheaded mistakes cost us the win. I spent most of my ride home plotting colorful ways to kill Patty.

What Crystal was thinking when she launched that shot with four left on the shot clock, I will never know. That wasn't the shot we needed, and we had time to put something better together. In any case, her common sense and her shot are both still on the baggage carousel, so I don't think tomorrow will be much of an improvement. Vickie was quiet. Too quiet. Plus, she seemed to get awfully chippy with Tari during #24's limited minutes. I think she objected to us chanting for Tari when the subs came in. News flash, Cap: maybe you should have gotten off your ass and done something authoritative instead of letting Tari turn into a cause celebre. Weird as it sounds to say it, I don't think Becky got enough touches, but there will be far more on that later. She made a couple of dumb plays, but that was the story of the night, so I can't come down on her too hard. Elena was quietly savvy; a buddy of mine from the lobby brought up an interesting question that may be more profound than he knew: "When did Elena Baranova turn into Sue Wicks?" As in, making contributions that don't necessarily show up in the stat sheet but do change the game. She was hot offensively early, but then Patty pulled her and it all went to shit after that. Ann was a player of extremes: she made some fabulous plays, she made some incredibly stupid plays, nothing really in the middle. La'Keshia was on fire in the first half, but then Patty pulled her and it all went to shit after that. Loree was nothing, Catherine was nothing, Erin was nothing.

*puts on flame-retardant suit* Which, of course, leads me to everyone's favorite precious Baby. She has shown flashes, I'll grant that much. Flashes, however, should not merit a player more minutes than two starters and almost twice as many touches as the next most trigger-happy player. More often than not, she chucks up the first shot she sees, her defense is shite, she's overaggressive when she needs to step back and thinks too much when she should just drive. For some reason, the playbook seems to have been the Son of Van's Playbook: "Get the ball to [Baby] Swoopes." Comet fans understand the furstration of that kind of play-calling, and they have the original Swoopes to make the play more often than not. I'd be bitching any Lib player out for 4-14 shooting, but the fact that it was Sista Christon makes it even more galling. Don't tell me Becky couldn't have taken Canty on a couple of more drives. Don't tell me Ann couldn't have gotten up in Snowy's grill. Don't tell me Vickie couldn't have... well, done anything that might have been helpful. I like the girl, don't get me wrong, she's a total sweetheart with a world of potential... but this was not the time and not the place for Patty to decide that she should try to unlock her inner Swoopes. Not in front of Her Majesty.

Oh yes, Patty. Dear Coach: Please die now, in as painful and public a manner as you can, thanks.

For Houston, Swoopes was amazing. I suppose you lot in Houston are used to that, though. Tina looked good, too, although she's not quite back on form. She got an elbow in the throat, from what I've gathered from postgame reporting, and went down like a stone. We worried about her, and we were relieved when she got back up. Snow got into foul trouble, but she kept Ann off balance, and of course, at the end of the game, she struck (like a COBRA!?). In general, the Comets killed us on the offensive boards. I grant that we had fewer missed shots than Houston did, but still, we whould have been turning their offensive boards into our defensive boards. I don't even want to think about how many second or third chance points they had. It would probably make me froth at the mouth and fantasize about dismembering Patty again, and my shrink says that's not healthy. Janeth, of course, was ice down the stretch. That woman knows no fear and no doubt. Canty wasn't really an offensive threat, but she seemed to run the offense well. Tari played five ineffective minutes, and was fully aware that we still love her. The only thing I remember about Rasmussen was her dramatization of the hit that Shameka put on her with the booty. If the deep bench played, I wasn't aware of it. The damage was done by Houston's starters; Sheryl never sat. Van threw candy to the crowd. Really, Lib fans, y'all should know better than to take candy from strangers.

The refs didn't suck tonight so much as they tilted. I'm willing to accept that the Liberty were guilty of most of the calls made on them, but I find it hard to believe that the Comets weren't pulling any of that borderline legal crap that the Liberty were. It also didn't help that the callling-style changed throuhout the game, alternating between a sensible use of the whistle and excessive blowing.

"Reality show night" should generally be a sign of impending doom. They did, however, have a hysterical Trading Spaces with Becky and Crystal, in which they decorated each other's lockers. Becky did Crystal's with olive green drapery and a birdhouse. Crystal did Becky's in shades of purple, with a welcome mat and a stuffed pillow thang that said "Cutie Pie". What I found most interesting about it is that to the casual fan, they seemed to be decorating in schemes that would match the recipient's, but to those more in the know, the decorating schemes seems more in line with the decorator's personality. (Plus, I get to find out yet another reason why I like Crystal: she shares my color sense. *grin*) And the blooper reel was a hoot; Becky seemed amazed at the concept of foldable Frisbees. But seriously. Next time they do a reality show theme, I want a chance to vote Blaze off the island by dumping her in the Hudson.

Our tickets were next to a set of boors who didn't seem to understand the concept that the national anthem is a time to shut up, stand up, and take your hat off, not a time to buy cotton candy and get pissy at the people who are respecting the anthem. If foreign nationals can get the concept, why can't some Americans? As soon as the anthem was done, we moved our seats. We were going to anyway, because the chairs we had were sagging and the seats blew, but I could not stand the thought of being next to those assholes any longer.

So between one thing and another, and the giant-ass cockroach that is crawling around on the outside of my screen, I am NOT a happy camper.

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[jammerbirdi]

[jersey_stupka]

queenie wrote:

[herrade]

[herrade]

[BCBG25]

Christon needed a good ole bitch slapping after the 1st ill-advised 3-pointer she launched, but the vets kept hiding behind screens and were too busy running like headless chickens. Christon was on speed last night and her intensity was a thing of beauty. Last year we criticized her FT shooting, she's now shooting over 80%; we criticized her defense, she shut down Swoopes while she was on her for all plays but the last one. Now I'm gonna go ahead and ask her to work on her ball handling skills and stop with the crazy 3-pointers.
This kid has UNLIMITED potential. Her intensity is something we haven't seen since that other player wearing #24 for the Comets last night was on our side. These are all growing pains. If you can't see that, I'm sorry, it's your fucking problem, not ours, not hers.

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[KeiraNY]

Alright, here's what I'm going to say! No one on the Liberty specifically lost the game! Yes, my baby girl Shameka took some very ill advised shots, then again Becky has done the same thing at times. To Becky's credit, she didn't try to take the winning shots by herself.

The refs SUCKED BIG TIME!!! It's the inconsistency of the calls. Don't tell me that Canty going over Becky's back and knocking her down to ONE KNEE doesn't merit a foul, but a touch foul on Wauters does?? What the fuck is that? Yes, I'm still angry! TWICE, the refs called fould because the Comets pointed at them. One was Sheryl Swoopes pointing (literally) at C-Rob and there goes the whistle. The other was Snow pointing at Wauters (on offense) and Ann gets the call. For what? I still have to figure that one out. There was another over the back foul on Raz over Frett, but the foul gets called on Frett. Huh? The ref even signaled it was over the back!! I hope BOTH Donna O & Renee Brown took notes on the UNFAIR and UNBALANCED officiating! It was SO awful!

I think Patty's BIG mistake was not calling a time out when Houston was down by 3 and/or when they tied! WHERE'S THE TIME OUT PATTY??? Ugh!

On the positive side, I'm glad the outpouring for Tari was that big! Girl deserves that and more! She got a nice standing O and the Lib players looked a bit 'stunned' at the reception! Some of them were like "what the..." so I'm glad they realized that Tari's gone but certainly not forgotten!! The rest of the time girl looked bored out of her stinking mind rotting at the bench!! A few times I yelled at Van to pay her but he didn't listen. Surprise, surprise!

[Genero36]

[herrade]