How a team with so much veteran presence struggles to “be ready to play” so often is unconscionable. WTF is the point of “veteran leadership,” if they can’t at least come ready to play every night? Isn’t that part of the definition of a “veteran”? Quinn’s repeated statements of how “the team knows what’s wrong” feels like her way of saying she doesn’t have clue as to how to fix this crap. Her body language is never great, and during the game and the presser, it was horrible. From the outside, it’s hard to fathom what about her appeals to the veterans here. Skylar again provided a dose of reality, but again, we have a lot of people who are great at verbalizing accountability around effort, but the problems and inconsistency persist. Jeff, your organizational soul searching questions are spot on.
I think it was a combination of missed wide open 3 pt shooting AND continuing to shoot 3s when that shot wasn't falling. No one was going to the rim besides skylar. No one was making in game adjustments. If the gameplay was take the paint away we have to do a better job of countering that. The embarrassing losses are the worse & make you question everything.
This was a pitiful display by the Storm. It boggles the mind. Certainly the Valtyries are an incredible expansion team. They appear to be a legitimate contender. I have to give a lot of credit to their coach Natalie Nakase. She has to be an amazing coach. We played our worst game of the year. They made us look like a bad college team. If we can't beat Golden State then we certainly aren't going to be contenders for the WNBA Championship. We had terrible defense and probably even worse offense. We certainly didn't play like professional basketball players. It's very upsetting.
How a team with so much veteran presence struggles to “be ready to play” so often is unconscionable. WTF is the point of “veteran leadership,” if they can’t at least come ready to play every night? Isn’t that part of the definition of a “veteran”? Quinn’s repeated statements of how “the team knows what’s wrong” feels like her way of saying she doesn’t have clue as to how to fix this crap. Her body language is never great, and during the game and the presser, it was horrible. From the outside, it’s hard to fathom what about her appeals to the veterans here. Skylar again provided a dose of reality, but again, we have a lot of people who are great at verbalizing accountability around effort, but the problems and inconsistency persist. Jeff, your organizational soul searching questions are spot on.
I think it was a combination of missed wide open 3 pt shooting AND continuing to shoot 3s when that shot wasn't falling. No one was going to the rim besides skylar. No one was making in game adjustments. If the gameplay was take the paint away we have to do a better job of countering that. The embarrassing losses are the worse & make you question everything.
This was a pitiful display by the Storm. It boggles the mind. Certainly the Valtyries are an incredible expansion team. They appear to be a legitimate contender. I have to give a lot of credit to their coach Natalie Nakase. She has to be an amazing coach. We played our worst game of the year. They made us look like a bad college team. If we can't beat Golden State then we certainly aren't going to be contenders for the WNBA Championship. We had terrible defense and probably even worse offense. We certainly didn't play like professional basketball players. It's very upsetting.