21 June 2011
Improvement
First half against Tulsa: The same dreadful Storm that played LA and Minnesota.
Second half against Tulsa: A reasonable facsimile of last year's championship team.
The difference was pretty striking. The Storm managed to pull out the win (whew!) but more importantly, they started to look more like themselves. Two problems, though:
1) Lauren Jackson was injured during the first half and missed the rest of the game. They're not sure yet how bad it is.
2) Sue Bird is the leading scorer for the Storm. She was before the game (averaging 16 points), and she was the leading scorer in the Tulsa game, too, with 21 points. This worries me. It's a bad sign when Sue Bird is the leading scorer. It means she has no one to pass the ball to for an assist. It means she's not getting enough help from her teammates, so she's trying to do it all herself. It can work (obviously), but the team runs smoother when she's less of a scorer.
This game wasn't televised, so I planned to watch it on Live Access. Unfortunately, it turned out the game was on ESPN3. I'd never used ESPN3 before, and it stank. The first half had decent video quality but it kept freezing. The second half didn't freeze so much, but the video quality was dreadful. Very annoying.
Second half against Tulsa: A reasonable facsimile of last year's championship team.
The difference was pretty striking. The Storm managed to pull out the win (whew!) but more importantly, they started to look more like themselves. Two problems, though:
1) Lauren Jackson was injured during the first half and missed the rest of the game. They're not sure yet how bad it is.
2) Sue Bird is the leading scorer for the Storm. She was before the game (averaging 16 points), and she was the leading scorer in the Tulsa game, too, with 21 points. This worries me. It's a bad sign when Sue Bird is the leading scorer. It means she has no one to pass the ball to for an assist. It means she's not getting enough help from her teammates, so she's trying to do it all herself. It can work (obviously), but the team runs smoother when she's less of a scorer.
This game wasn't televised, so I planned to watch it on Live Access. Unfortunately, it turned out the game was on ESPN3. I'd never used ESPN3 before, and it stank. The first half had decent video quality but it kept freezing. The second half didn't freeze so much, but the video quality was dreadful. Very annoying.
Labels: Seattle Storm
# posted by mamurd @ 11:30 PM 
