20 June 2011
I'm Trying To Remain Positive
The next game is against Tulsa, so there's a good chance the Storm'll win that one.
As for the previous game...
WNBAlien: "The thing is, Seattle don’t seem to be taking bad shots. Yeah, they could do with working to find more opportunities in the paint rather than outside, but the jumpers they’re taking are shots you’d expect them to make a decent percentage of the time. They’re just not. Lauren Jackson was 3-14 in last night’s game, taking the perennial MVP candidate to a horrifying 13-46 through four games. Maybe the offseason injury/surgery is lingering, but she looks pretty healthy. The shots are just off, sometimes by quite a distance. Seattle can probably win enough games with their defense and team play to make the playoffs but they won’t win anything with LJ playing like this, and it’s getting frustrating waiting for her to snap out of it. Several of her teammates are just as bad. Swin Cash, Tanisha Wright, Le’coe Willingham and new addition Katie Smith are all shooting horribly, and that’s just too much for the offense to take. It’s a near team-wide shooting slump. Hope Brian Agler can wake his team up sometime soon, because this is painful to watch from a team that was so smooth and efficient throughout last season."
Storm website: "The key with Jackson, and the Storm as a team, is patience. In 2008, that lopsided loss in Los Angeles dropped the team to 7-6 a third of the way through a season that opened with high expectations. By the time the Storm won the rematch two and a half weeks later, more accurate shooting had helped carry Seattle to a six-game winning streak. There is no guarantee the Storm's improvement will be so rapid this time around, but it has been done before."
From the more amusing side of things:
The Storm's stats guy (Kevin Pelton) looks at the "expected [number of] wins" statistic, where San Antonio's 4-0 start has them listed at 35.2 wins this season: "I’ll boldly predict the Silver Stars are unlikely to win 35 games in a 34-game schedule."
On Katie Smith's Twitter, she indirectly answers a question I've wondered about. Namely, is it confusing to switch teams?: "Go Storm!!! :) still getting used to saying that!!!"
As for the previous game...
WNBAlien: "The thing is, Seattle don’t seem to be taking bad shots. Yeah, they could do with working to find more opportunities in the paint rather than outside, but the jumpers they’re taking are shots you’d expect them to make a decent percentage of the time. They’re just not. Lauren Jackson was 3-14 in last night’s game, taking the perennial MVP candidate to a horrifying 13-46 through four games. Maybe the offseason injury/surgery is lingering, but she looks pretty healthy. The shots are just off, sometimes by quite a distance. Seattle can probably win enough games with their defense and team play to make the playoffs but they won’t win anything with LJ playing like this, and it’s getting frustrating waiting for her to snap out of it. Several of her teammates are just as bad. Swin Cash, Tanisha Wright, Le’coe Willingham and new addition Katie Smith are all shooting horribly, and that’s just too much for the offense to take. It’s a near team-wide shooting slump. Hope Brian Agler can wake his team up sometime soon, because this is painful to watch from a team that was so smooth and efficient throughout last season."
Storm website: "The key with Jackson, and the Storm as a team, is patience. In 2008, that lopsided loss in Los Angeles dropped the team to 7-6 a third of the way through a season that opened with high expectations. By the time the Storm won the rematch two and a half weeks later, more accurate shooting had helped carry Seattle to a six-game winning streak. There is no guarantee the Storm's improvement will be so rapid this time around, but it has been done before."
From the more amusing side of things:
The Storm's stats guy (Kevin Pelton) looks at the "expected [number of] wins" statistic, where San Antonio's 4-0 start has them listed at 35.2 wins this season: "I’ll boldly predict the Silver Stars are unlikely to win 35 games in a 34-game schedule."
On Katie Smith's Twitter, she indirectly answers a question I've wondered about. Namely, is it confusing to switch teams?: "Go Storm!!! :) still getting used to saying that!!!"
Labels: Seattle Storm
# posted by mamurd @ 11:33 PM 
