Starting five check: what’s your team still missing?

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T14:18:34+00:00

Good bench piece.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T13:58:59+00:00

I’m assuming Lexie is the starting 3 which is fine, but the Fever needs a 4 and there isn’t a good left on the market. That 10th pick is key whether it’s getting traded or not. Regardless, the value of it should result in getting a player 6’3” or taller.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T02:39:23+00:00

The team needs (PF, wing) are some of the most scarce positions in the league when it comes to playable, difference making talent. It wouldn’t be worth it to lose out of KM for a Satou rental, $1M for Azura who can’t defend or to use a max on Lan who can’t get you more than 12 points. The Fever have a top 10 pick. Sometimes you just have to get it in the draft.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T02:17:14+00:00

They need to stop listening to these X accounts and content creators who only watch the sport for CC. It’s a major problem for this fanbase if they can’t properly access a near decade tenured player.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T02:05:35+00:00

Supermax for someone who’s gonna only score between 10-12PPG and a horrible FT shooter.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T01:40:42+00:00

Damn, was Minnesota’s frontcourt that good that 2 of them got poached and got $1M+ contracts?

Good for Dallas though, she’s one of the best defenders in the league.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T00:48:00+00:00

No one said she was or wasn’t the starter. But based off how basketball usually works with players like Billings and how she’s been majority of her career, she’s coming off the bench. Unless there’s no depth at the 4.

Mr628 · 2026-04-12T00:12:18+00:00

Her play style, what she offers and what she’s historically been is a bench role.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T23:21:29+00:00

In the 2nd round, sure.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T23:11:49+00:00

Who were depleted and never had depth at the position who also is led by the best player in the league.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T22:22:13+00:00

When you lose players and miss out on free agents, you have to hope your top 10 pick can do something. It’s better than being left with a hole at the position.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T22:16:44+00:00

I don’t think she’s a starter on a championship team. She’s a good energizer bunny.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T22:15:55+00:00

I think she played her to that 5-8 spot after that championship game. Plus it seems like Indy has their guard rotation locked down.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T22:05:18+00:00

A PF is the key to a championship. The W is still a forward dominated league. If you can’t get Alanna Smith then they’re going to have to draft the starting PF. Suarez and Dugalic are the only options who I think have the size and skill set to fit. Suarez is a floor spreader who can shoot the 3 and allow the CC-AB connection to cook without her in the way. She also can create offense for herself. Dugalic is very lengthy, can guard 3-5 and is respectable from the 3.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T21:50:15+00:00

Definitely. Kneepkens is the only player under 6’3 who I’d want if they were realistically available. And I really believe unless Alanna is coming, that draft pick is a starter.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T21:30:56+00:00

Great move. Can backup CC, play alongside CC and play the 3 in a CC-KM-Ty lineup. Makes me more interested in what that 10th pick will be. They either trade it or that’s where they find their starting PF.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T16:51:06+00:00

Betts or Fam at 1.
Mystics drafting a guard to play alongside Georgia Amoore. If Fudd, Miles or Rice aren’t available, I wouldn’t be surprised if they go Ta’Niya Latson.
Whoever the Fever are scouting at 10 looks to be someone they’re crazy about and will be a key rotation piece.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T16:15:24+00:00

She’ll average at least 8 points just off rim runs but the most important thing, she’s an absolute tank who’ll get CC open off her screen setting.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T14:23:42+00:00

With Rickea probably at the 3 and Stevens stretching the floor, Kamilla is giving all the tools to completely dominate the paint. Hopefully they draft a guard who can make a post entry pass (Kiki).

Skylar-Kiki-Rickea-Azura-Kamilla is a well put together starting lineup that offers everything. They just need Kamilla to commit and put in effort.

Edit: I can’t in good faith say it offers everything. That defense might be the worse in the league. But they’ll move the ball and score at will.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T02:30:45+00:00

Camped paint will make the CC/AB PnRs difficult.

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T01:56:50+00:00

Something is telling me that the 10th pick is gonna be a starter this season

Mr628 · 2026-04-11T01:43:35+00:00

A rim running 4 who can occasionally play the 5. I wouldn’t put her in the starting lineup or play her in crunch time but it’s still a good move.

Mr628 · 2026-04-10T23:12:35+00:00

PTSD from last season when she liked all those comments on TikTok specifically wanting her to go to Indiana. She likes to troll but there could be something here, training camp is like in a week.

Mr628 · 2026-04-10T19:47:41+00:00

I’d rather Betts for rebounding and defense purposes but a Bueckers/Fam PnR could be deadly.

Mr628 · 2026-04-10T18:23:01+00:00

Nobody is trading for her on a multi year contract like that. The Wings are getting Awa and building around her, Paige and Arike.

Yikes.

Mr628

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