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Good news: Stokes is done and hopefully will be available in a week.
Bad news so far: Howard's team is trailing by 14 at halftime.
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| Posted: 05/11/21 1:22 pm ::: |
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| The Liberty didn’t draft bigs for a reason. They didn’t retain Zahui for a reason. |
They did however keep Stokes, whose main purpose is to be big and block up the middle.
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| Posted: 05/11/21 1:54 pm ::: |
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| Valerie Higgins has been waived.
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| Posted: 05/11/21 2:23 pm ::: |
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| Valerie Higgins has been waived. |
Hopefully, that's to make room for Allen. Even if it's only a day or two sooner, it's good to have the extra practice time.
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| Posted: 05/11/21 2:27 pm ::: |
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| After a furious comeback, Howard's team ends up losing by 1 point. So now we have to wait until Thursday.
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| Posted: 05/11/21 4:06 pm ::: |
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A 2 hours and 38 minutes press conference from yesterday. The lighting is bad and the sound is out of sync, but it's understandable. Just about everybody participates:
Hopkins
Patterson
Gemelos
Whitcomb
Clarendon
Laney
Taylor
Ionescu
Jones
Holmes
Shook
Odom
Onyenwere
Richards
Bailey
Higgins
The one disturbing note is that Hopkins acted like he had no idea when Allen is arriving. He lumped her in with Howard and Stokes. As far as I know, Bec finished playing on Thursday, May 6. ETA for me would have been a week later on Thursday, May 13. So, now I'm concerned.
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| Posted: 05/11/21 6:04 pm ::: |
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No email link to STH tickets today.
Starting to lose patience with The Liberty.
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| Posted: 05/12/21 10:11 am ::: |
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| I just got an email about how to access tickets and enter the arena but still no actual tickets or seating assignment in sight. Anyone else? I imagine it's gonna be worse than the airport security check-in at the front doors this Friday.
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| Posted: 05/12/21 3:33 pm ::: |
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| AmbAsiaDurr sounds good to me
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| Posted: 05/12/21 4:08 pm ::: |
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| By the way, Kiah Stokes arrived back in the States today. This seems to mean that she'll be available after she quarantines for some Liberty games before eventually going back to Europe to compete in EuroBasket for Turkey.
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Joynes Holmes has been waived. Looks like Janette Bailey has also been waived, though I haven't seen that posted. On the roster (on the Liberty website), there are now 16 names:
Allen, Jasmine Bailey, Clarendon, Howard, Ionescu, Johannes, Jones, Laney, Odom, Onyenwere, Richards, Shook, Stokes, Taylor, Whitcomb, and Willoughby.
So even if Willoughby is cut and Johannes is suspended--as has been proposed or guessed here--there will have to be two other players cut once all missing players are back.
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| Posted: 05/12/21 4:19 pm ::: |
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| Wow, is that the requirement -- 6 negative tests in a row? It still keeps Stokes on my timeline, which is expected availability on Tuesday against the Lynx at home... provided she survives testing.
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| Posted: 05/12/21 4:19 pm ::: |
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| Turkey named an enormous squad, which now appears to be down to 24. Including Hollingsworth as well as Stokes (and only one of them can play). So who knows what the hell's going on. I'd assume either she'd need to leave early - to earn her spot by beating out Hollingsworth - or potentially not have to go at all, if New York get lucky and Turkey decide "screw it, we'll just go with Quanitra instead". |
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| Posted: 05/12/21 5:27 pm ::: |
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Hoping Durr gets hooked up financially.
Kind of shocked we haven't heard anything about Johannes. Is there anything out there that suggest she is considering coming over at some point this season.
Gabby Williams was suspended by the Sky a couple of days ago and I believe Johannes is in the same boat.
I assume tomorrow we will hear what is going to happen with Willoughby, maybe with Durr's decision they will decide to carry Willoughby, and then will be down to nine without Howard and Stokes (and Johannes) and can go the hardship route
Is Stokes in NY? is it possible she is staying for the Turkey camp and will be temp suspended?
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| Posted: 05/12/21 6:02 pm ::: |
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Just looked on the WNBA website at the Transactions page. It says the following about the Liberty:
May 7th Janelle Bailey waived.
May 9th Janelle Bailey cleared waivers.
May 11th Valerie Higgins waived.
May 12th Joyner Holmes waived.
May 12th Asia Durr--Personal Decision--Full Season.
May 12th Rebecca Allen--Suspended--Partial Season
May 12th Natasha Howard--Suspended--Partial Season
May 12th Kiah Stokes--Suspended--Partial Season
In addition, various former Liberty players have been waived. I won't go through all of them. Today (5/12) Brittany Boyd-Jones was waived by Chicago.
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| Posted: 05/12/21 6:15 pm ::: |
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yup this where we are at
Still no idea what is happening with Johannes
If a player is temp suspended can they be temp replaced?
Do temp suspended players count against the cap or do they not get paid until they arrive?
if so something like
Ionescu/Clarendon
Jones/Whitcomb/Bailey/(Johannes)
Laney/Richards/(Willoughby)
Onyenwere/Odom
Shook/Taylor
If Johannes is suspended we would be at 12 including Willoughby but minus the temp suspended players
we could keep Willoughby on the roster all season now or could still cut her. Keeping her gets us deep into replacement player territory with the suspended player/
We could also make additional cuts and go the replacement player root or make a waiver wire pick up
but we could in theory have a front-court of Onyenwere, Shook, Odom and Taylor on opening night Friday.
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| Posted: 05/12/21 6:22 pm ::: |
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| Bob Lamm wrote: |
Just looked on the WNBA website at the Transactions page. It says the following about the Liberty:
May 7th Janelle Bailey waived.
May 9th Janelle Bailey cleared waivers.
May 11th Valerie Higgins waived.
May 12th Joyner Holmes waived.
May 12th Asia Durr--Personal Decision--Full Season.
May 12th Rebecca Allen--Suspended--Partial Season
May 12th Natasha Howard--Suspended--Partial Season
May 12th Kiah Stokes--Suspended--Partial Season
In addition, various former Liberty players have been waived. I won't go through all of them. Today (5/12) Brittany Boyd-Jones was waived by Chicago. |
-- I wonder if Allen is having visa problems. Her team finished last Thursday if I remember correctly. Yet we haven't heard anything about her being in NY. Her absence along with Stokes and Howard puts an Emergency Hardship player back into the equation.
-- Johannes is a weird one. I don't see how we get Onyenwere on the roster if we don't full-year suspend Marine. Michaela makes $67k. The only slots with that much money are Johannes and Ionescu. Otherwise, they have to cut two of three from Jones, Shook, and Odom. None of those other options make sense.
-- Is Asia Taylor still on the team? Did I miss something?
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| Posted: 05/12/21 8:03 pm ::: |
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So has any STH's been able to log in to Ticket Manager ?
I have had the same problem as Root Thing
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So, I wonder if that means she's getting Marketing Money like we theorized.
