10 July 2010
All-Star Game
That was a very different game than last year!
Last year's All-Star game was fun and light-hearted. This year's game was essentially a practice game (and de facto tryout) for Team USA. Team USA doesn't get much time to train together, so they were taking all that they could get.
Team USA really dominated the WNBA All-Stars, but I think the game would have been a little more even if Lauren Jackson could have played for the WNBA team!
There was one college student on Team USA: a UConn player named Maya Moore. I was pretty impressed by her; she held her own against the best of the WNBA.
ETA: Lauren Jackson attended the game, but didn't play. They interviewed her, though, and she said she should be back by the next Storm game -- yay! During the game, Brian Agler (the Storm coach, who was coaching the WNBA team) was giving Sue Bird (who was playing for Team USA) grief about playing so many minutes. (She ended up only playing 20, not the 35 he was teasing her about.)
Last year's All-Star game was fun and light-hearted. This year's game was essentially a practice game (and de facto tryout) for Team USA. Team USA doesn't get much time to train together, so they were taking all that they could get.
Team USA really dominated the WNBA All-Stars, but I think the game would have been a little more even if Lauren Jackson could have played for the WNBA team!
There was one college student on Team USA: a UConn player named Maya Moore. I was pretty impressed by her; she held her own against the best of the WNBA.
ETA: Lauren Jackson attended the game, but didn't play. They interviewed her, though, and she said she should be back by the next Storm game -- yay! During the game, Brian Agler (the Storm coach, who was coaching the WNBA team) was giving Sue Bird (who was playing for Team USA) grief about playing so many minutes. (She ended up only playing 20, not the 35 he was teasing her about.)
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