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#1851

I think that the GM comment stems from the fact that the Fever have been dogshit for the last 8 years and keep a pattern of doing the same thing in trying to fix the problem. GM gets no credit for CC - she fell into the Fever's lap.  

Radio guys here know their stuff.  It's Indiana, it's basketball, and it's the local pro women's team @ztejas, to be fair they are more informed than most people who report on the WNBA. 

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#1852
6 minutes ago, BlueGreySky said:

Radio guys here know their stuff.  It's Indiana, it's basketball, and it's the local pro women's team @ztejas, to be fair they are more informed than most people who report on the WNBA. 

That's fair that it's Indiana. Different vibe up there. I just automatically assume local FM radio guys these days are idiots. And I would also contend that no one - even in Indiana - gave a shit about the team before Clark got drafted. 

GMs and coaches luck into shit all the time. I'm not in the loop behind the scenes but from what I've seen they will have a competitive roster for the foreseeable future and their HC doesn't seem to be any worse than average at least. 

#1853

The guys I listen to have always reported on the Fever even when they suck, but you're correct - no one gave a shit.  They just did it because it was worth one weekly segment and the one radio guy I know the best has been dating Donnie Walsh's daughter for the better part of 20 years.  He used to have some leadership/management role with the Fever in addition to his Pacers roles.

Hell, someone offered me playoff tickets the year the Fever won the title - 2012.  I declined to go because I didn't feel like shifting around track practice.

#1854
9 minutes ago, BlueGreySky said:

The guys I listen to have always reported on the Fever even when they suck, but you're correct - no one gave a shit.  They just did it because it was worth one weekly segment and the one radio guy I know the best has been dating Donnie Walsh's daughter for the better part of 20 years.  He used to have some leadership/management role with the Fever in addition to his Pacers roles.

Then I will concede that they are better informed and more plugged into the situation than I. I may or may not concede that their overall hoop knowledge outdoes mine. 

I'd still retort that I am less emotionally invested (although I'm totally a bandwagon Fever fan already) and as such less likely to bitch about the front office and head coach on morning radio. I mean, it's kind of their fucking job to do shit like that. 

Just like someone can have a more reasonable take about SMU football who is simply a well-researched college football fan looking at the situation without blinders and not an alumnus like me who is looking to get mad and complain about every little bullshit detail that isn't going right every week. 

Regardless, what me and @d2o have opined is close to a fact. They have a nice little stable going and CC is only going to get better. Very bright and fun days for the Fever ahead. If I'm their FO I'm studying LeBron's first Cleveland stint and learning from that FO's mistakes. 

Edited by ztejas

#1855
2 hours ago, ztejas said:

That's fair that it's Indiana. Different vibe up there. I just automatically assume local FM radio guys these days are idiots. And I would also contend that no one - even in Indiana - gave a shit about the team before Clark got drafted. 

GMs and coaches luck into shit all the time. I'm not in the loop behind the scenes but from what I've seen they will have a competitive roster for the foreseeable future and their HC doesn't seem to be any worse than average at least. 

Like lucking into Caitlin Clark?  Isn't this essentially the same team as last year, with Clark?  Not gonna lie, I could be wrong.  Were Mitchell and boston on the team last year?

#1857
7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I promise you they do not. 

Nah bro they're in Indiana they know more than you.

#1858
11 hours ago, closetohumping said:

Like lucking into Caitlin Clark?  Isn't this essentially the same team as last year, with Clark?  Not gonna lie, I could be wrong.  Were Mitchell and boston on the team last year?

Yes, Mitchell and Boston were on the team last yr and were all-stars.  Mitchell is a career 17ppg scorer.  Boston was the 1st overall pick in 2023 and avg'd 14/9 last yr.  Nalyssa Smith was the 2nd overall pick in 2022 and avg'd 15/9 last season.  That's why all the talk about how much the rest of CC's team sucked in the early part of the season was bullshit.    They just needed time to build chemistry.

#1860
Just now, totallynotabuttpirate said:

Jerruh Jones enters the chat...

So does the puppet that David Tepper has installed in Carolina

#1861
3 hours ago, d2o said:

Yes, Mitchell and Boston were on the team last yr and were all-stars.  Mitchell is a career 17ppg scorer.  Boston was the 1st overall pick in 2023 and avg'd 14/9 last yr.  Nalyssa Smith was the 2nd overall pick in 2022 and avg'd 15/9 last season.  That's why all the talk about how much the rest of CC's team sucked in the early part of the season was bullshit.    They just needed time to build chemistry.

I still think they need a new coach....

#1862

Hope Fever can win game #2 tomorrow.  Having a game #3 would be great for the Fever and the WNBA...  

 

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#1863

 

Asked Caitlin Clark on what she’d say to the crowd that thinks the Carrington hit to her eye was on purpose: “It wasn’t intentional by any means. You just watched the play, it wasn’t intentional.”

This kind of "journalism" is utter bullshit

 

I asked DiJonai Carrington about that moment early in Sunday’s Indiana-Connecticut game when she caught Caitlin Clark in the eye. Here’s her answer:

 

 

 

#1865
3 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Hope Fever can win game #2 tomorrow.  Having a game #3 would be great for the Fever and the WNBA...  

 

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so if it goes to a decisive third game the higher seed is on the road? am i reading that correctly?

#1871
1 hour ago, alincoln said:

To be fair, this is the first season anyone has been aware of the wnba playoff

Fify. 

#1873
11 hours ago, alincoln said:

To be fair, this is the first season anyone has been aware of the wnba playoff

 

10 hours ago, boilerhorn said:

Fify. 

 

11 hours ago, alincoln said:

To be fair, this is the first season anyone has been aware of the wnba

 

Fify

#1875
21 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Sure, but it's still dumb. If travel costs are that much of a burden, then just play all three games at the higher seed's gym. 

This is what MLB does in round 1, and they don’t give a flying fuck about travel costs…

#1877

Chippy, low-scoring little 1Q.

The # of Fever fans there is wild. Has to be 30% easy for a game in fkn Connecticut.

Sun are really good on D. Clark gonna have to grow up in a hurry if they want to take this back to Indiana.

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#1879

Fever might need a little more lenf and strenf next season. Sun kicking their ass a bit with the bully ball.

#1880

Mitchell has been quiet. They're gonna need a bit more from her down the stretch. 

As I type - she gets to the foul line.* Guess it wasn't a shooting foul but she then hits a step-back trey.

Fever got any analyst positions open?

Edited by ztejas

#1881

Thomas just taking em to the woodshed now.

16 pts 10 dimes 5 boards through 3Q. 1 turn.

#1884

73-73. Sun's cute white girl canned a triple and they answer with a nice dish and bucket inside. 

Clark up to 25/6/7.

#1885

tuned in a couple minutes ago. exciting game action. but still- cc is the only player i’m watching who looks like a coordinated athlete with actual skill. the iq and skill level is so, so bad. for example:

i mean what the hell is even that? how are you trying to dribble there? how are you a grown, adult, professional at the absolute peak of your field and you’re making mental blunders that an elementary school kid shouldn’t even be making? every time i tune in to this sport it just reinforced what a lie it is whenever wnba fans claim that the on-court product is great, and not comically, pathetically weak and embarrassing.

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#1886
1 minute ago, Derka said:

but still- cc is the only player i’m watching who looks like a coordinated athlete with actual skill.

Alyssa Thomas has been phenomenal on both ends all night. Sorry you can't be assed to actually watch a full game and do nothing but hate. 

#1889
Just now, ztejas said:

Alyssa Thomas has been phenomenal on both ends all night. Sorry you can't be assed to actually watch a full game and do nothing but hate. 

yeah, i’m not going to tune in to watch a full game between slow, unathletic, uncoordinated women who would get smashed by any random boys JV team. the skill and athleticism in this league is embarrassing.

and right on cue indiana throws an inbound pass over everyone’s heads and into the stands.

#1890

last two possessions for indiana cc doesn’t touch the ball, and her teammates 1)throw an inbound pass over everyone’s head and out of bounds, and then 2)going full fred brown and just passing the ball to the other team for a fast break. these are not serious athletes, and this is a make-a-wish league.

#1892

Two late Fever turnovers (not by CC) were killers...   

Suns win

 

Edited by LTtxfan

#1894
3 minutes ago, Derka said:

yeah, i’m not going to tune in to watch a full game between slow, unathletic, uncoordinated women who would get smashed by any random boys JV team. the skill and athleticism in this league is embarrassing.

and right on cue indiana throws an inbound pass over everyone’s heads and into the stands.

 

1 minute ago, Derka said:

last two possessions for indiana cc doesn’t touch the ball, and her teammates 1)throw an inbound pass over everyone’s head and out of bounds, and then 2)going full fred brown and just passing the ball to the other team for a fast break. these are not serious athletes, and this is a make-a-wish league.

Dude no one gives a fuck about your exhausting, bigoted opinion and no one is forcing you to watch. I'd like to see you get out there and can a 27 foot triple with 50 seconds left to go up 4 in front of 12k people. 

I watch plenty of less interesting NBA playoff games than this every year. Yeah the W gets a little sloppy but that doesn't mean there aren't some seriously talented ladies out there and that it isn't an entertaining product. 

2 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

LOL these last few shots for Indiana have all been by the scrubs and none have touched the rim

They're also exhausted. Connecticut is bigger, more physical and more experienced.

#1895
1 minute ago, ztejas said:

 

Dude no one gives a fuck about your exhausting, bigoted opinion and no one is forcing you to watch. I'd like to see you get out there and can a 27 foot triple with 50 seconds left to go up 4 in front of 12k people. 

I watch plenty of less interesting NBA playoff games than this every year. Yeah the W gets a little sloppy but that doesn't mean there aren't some seriously talented ladies out there and that it isn't an entertaining product. 

They're also exhausted. Connecticut is bigger, more physical and more experienced.

“bigoted” opinion? lol ok. weren’t you just advocating for this thread to be merged with the other thread? and didn’t i tell you that was a bad idea since this thread’s second purpose is hating on the wnba? now here you are in here crying because people are hating on this shitty make-a-wish league. i don’t think you could handle these threads being merged.

#1896
4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

They're also exhausted. Connecticut is bigger, more physical and more experienced.

as if wnba players aren’t constantly hurling up airballs at all points of the game. angel reese gets 3-4 airballs from three feet out every 1Q of every game she plays. and she got mvp votes.

#1897
On 9/24/2024 at 3:00 PM, d2o said:
I asked DiJonai Carrington about that moment early in Sunday’s Indiana-Connecticut game when she caught Caitlin Clark in the eye. Here’s her answer:

 

#1898
This is why nobody watched the WNBA before Caitlin Clark 😭

 

#1899

Weird hill Derka. It's hoops during the off-season. If you don't find it entertaining don't watch it.

Game was chippy as fuck tonight. Would have like to have seen the hand shake lines. 

Edited by Baboontyme

#1900
50 minutes ago, Baboontyme said:

if you don't find it entertaining don't watch it

i don’t. nobody does lol. 

but in all seriousness, i, and many other sports fans who’ve never watched the wnba before now have had our interests piqued due to a)caitlin clark, and b)the overt, unapologetic, unfounded bullshit she’s had to put up with simply because her league mates are jealous.

this league has been *begging* for attention for years, and. ow they have it, and it turns out that a lot of new fans don’t like these people. people like angel reese, chennedy carter, diana turasi, and even the fever’s own hc, who’ve all gone out of their way to verbally, physically, or mentally fuck with cc just because she’s better than them.

 just like with any other sport, people like to root against the villain, whether it’s john rocker, stockton and malone, or now, a whole shit ton of petty, jealous, catty, ungrateful “athletes” who’ve had everything handed to them, and yet who *still* flippantly demand more support, all while blaming others for their own failures, and going after the one person who’s bringing this attention to their league. i’m not going to feel bad about rooting against these women. they’ve earned it. i wouldn’t even be paying attention if they hadn’t gone so far out of their way to demand it.

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