25 January 2011
Quote of the Day: Richard Cohen
The 2011 WNBA season will be starting up in a few months, so I better use up my 2010 quotes! From SportsPageMagazine.com's "This Week in the WNBA: Week 8" (posted July 12, 2010):
Only counting 4th Quarters and Overtimes ('Prime Time', as Mr Swanson refers to it), Crystal Langhorne [Washington Mystics] is shooting 78% from the floor. That's insane. Sue Bird's [Seattle Storm] effective field goal percentage (a measure which adjusts for three-pointers being worth more than twos) in Prime Time is 75%, which is also completely ridiculous. Also interesting is the fact that Angel McCoughtry and Iziane Castro Marques [Atlanta Dream] are #1 and #2 in the league in scoring in Prime Time, illustrating how Atlanta's high-low game down to Lyttle and de Souza tends to disappear at crunch time, and their athletic shot-creating wings take over instead. Leading the league in Prime Time assists, perhaps a little surprisingly, is Tanisha Wright [Seattle Storm]. Bird doesn't even make the top five, suggesting that Seattle take advantage of Bird's shot-making abilities down the stretch of games while Wright often takes over the creation and distribution. The two have grown into a nicely balanced partnership in Seattle's backcourt, as those numbers illustrate. They're even more impressive when you remember just how many blowouts Seattle have been involved in, which means that even with Brian Agler as their coach Bird and Wright have spent significant fourth quarter time relaxing on the bench.
Only counting 4th Quarters and Overtimes ('Prime Time', as Mr Swanson refers to it), Crystal Langhorne [Washington Mystics] is shooting 78% from the floor. That's insane. Sue Bird's [Seattle Storm] effective field goal percentage (a measure which adjusts for three-pointers being worth more than twos) in Prime Time is 75%, which is also completely ridiculous. Also interesting is the fact that Angel McCoughtry and Iziane Castro Marques [Atlanta Dream] are #1 and #2 in the league in scoring in Prime Time, illustrating how Atlanta's high-low game down to Lyttle and de Souza tends to disappear at crunch time, and their athletic shot-creating wings take over instead. Leading the league in Prime Time assists, perhaps a little surprisingly, is Tanisha Wright [Seattle Storm]. Bird doesn't even make the top five, suggesting that Seattle take advantage of Bird's shot-making abilities down the stretch of games while Wright often takes over the creation and distribution. The two have grown into a nicely balanced partnership in Seattle's backcourt, as those numbers illustrate. They're even more impressive when you remember just how many blowouts Seattle have been involved in, which means that even with Brian Agler as their coach Bird and Wright have spent significant fourth quarter time relaxing on the bench.
Labels: Seattle Storm, WNBA
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