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Queenie · Posted: 05/27/23 8:39 pm :::

I think Kevin Pelton put it best on Twitter: the Liberty are in the “raptors testing the fences in Jurassic Park” level of finding their chemistry. There are still times when we’re bumping each other off the boards, and some cuts that should have been zigged instead of zagged. And we still have an awful lot of posts and not a lot of guards, and there’s definitely a chance for that to blow up in our faces. And I dislike how often some of our star players seem to treat defense as optional.

But goddamn this team is fun to watch when they’re in gear.

Sloot reminded us all she could score the ball, and Stewie filled the stat sheet, but have we talked enough about the work Kayla Thornton did on the glass and on defense today? She’s so tough and she’s amazing and I love her.

Also I think this is the first time, or at least the longest amount of time, I’ve seen Nyara Sabally play, and now I understand the hype. She brings an element of physicality that, for all our post congestion, none of the other bigs really seem to match. She thicc.

(Poor Leigha Brown looked like she wanted to ask Stephanie White and/or God “why is this my life?” when she was aske to guard Stewie and Nyara in rapid succession, albeit for different reasons. She tried. She does that. Go Blue. But anyway.)

If you’re going to make a growth chart poster of a player who is almost seven feet tall, it is outright cheating to make a three-foot poster and tell everyone to hang it four feet above the floor. No. I want a real poster. The Natalie Williams poster on one side of my bedroom door is getting beat up (kind of like Natalie herself in her playing days, come to think of it) and I was hoping to replace it with the Han poster.

If you believe Tiffany Hayes’s body language, she nearly died three times this afternoon. Par for the course, really. Between her, Alyssa “where we’re going we don’t need labrums” Thomas and Rebecca “I only broke my rib and punctured my lung a little” Allen, I am a bit concerned about the Connecticut Sun’s commitment to saving their players from themselves.

Shoutout to the two busloads of Sun fans who came down for the game. At some point we’ll return the favor, I’m sure, but not in a season where our games at Mohegan are a Wednesday morning in the preseason and 7PM on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Funny how our games at Mohegan always seem to be midweek games. (There was a Saturday game in 2021, when I doubt anyone was willingly getting on a bus with a bunch of strangers. Before that? The last time the Liberty played at Connecticut on a weekend was 2015, which was the year that someone in the Sun group sales office probably got fired, possibly out of a cannon, because they seated the Liberty bus in the section behind the Sun bench. SUS AF.)

(And yes, I did just go back through seven seasons of WNBA schedules on basketball-reference, and I did just cross-reference my own Game Notes of Doom {and count the number of times I said “I am never going to Connecticut on a Camp Day again”, because it is >1}. Because if I’m gonna talk shit, bitch is gonna have the receipts.)

We dared Natisha Hiedeman to shoot, and for the most part it went well. Connecticut doesn’t have a lot of defensive vulnerabilities, but once we found them we committed acts of unspeakable carnage upon them.

Now we get to see how this team reacts on the road, and how Marine fits into the scheme. I’m intrigued and nervous and excited and is it Tuesday yet?

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Bob Lamm · Posted: 05/27/23 8:58 pm :::

Silky Johnson · Posted: 05/27/23 8:58 pm :::

NYSports56 · Posted: 05/27/23 9:36 pm :::

Mixolydian · Posted: 05/27/23 10:21 pm :::

THOROUGHLY enjoyable post, Queenie!

Sabally looked great today, I was impressed.

I'm fully on the Libs bandwagon this year. Just so much fun to watch and I'm a massive fan of like 3/4 of their roster. It still feels like I'm watching an all-star game seeing all of them on the same team.

RavenDog · Posted: 05/28/23 8:52 am :::

Floor time takes on a whole different meaning when referring to Hayes.

Rock Hard · Posted: 05/28/23 1:48 pm :::

I only read Liberty threads just to read Queenie's posts. She never disappoints with her eloquence and humor.

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bryan_february_ · Posted: 05/29/23 5:51 am :::

Does anyone know what Dijonai Carrington did to end up in the doghouse?

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