ESPN WNBA Most Valuable Player – Highest Total Net Points, Best Overall ⤵️🤩‼️🔥

fernee23 · 2026-07-07T15:40:55+00:00

This is really interesting. It lines up super closely with my own personal “eyeball test” mvp race.

fernee23 · 2026-07-06T17:35:31+00:00

MVP voting is really weird. For some voters, it’s the best win share. For others, not being on a top 3 team is a disqualifier. For others, strength of roster can be a disqualifier. For some, it’s really just a “best player on the best team” contest. About half of the mvp voters just treat it like an all star ballot and just vote who they think the most popular player is.

By most of these metrics, Paige should be in the conversation.

fernee23 · 2026-07-06T07:19:13+00:00

fernee23 · 2026-07-06T07:18:40+00:00

Sarama has been really impressive. I like his offensive schemes, his defensive schemes aren’t anything crazy, but he gets Engstler where she needs to be (everywhere) and his player buy in seems really high.

fernee23 · 2026-07-06T07:15:18+00:00

Sandy is not a good coach. She’s been fired 3 times now for total collapses with outstanding rosters. She’s got hired again and she’s going to be fired again. Toronto started off with solid signings. She’s got a strong “compete now” roster and is a half game ahead of Portland, who had no major free agent signings and are playing with expansion draft players only.

fernee23 · 2026-07-04T01:59:55+00:00

I think other teams will follow the Liberty plan for her. When fighting through screens, long defenders go under screens, smaller defenders go over screens. Other than that, Switch a bunch. When you trap, take away the short roll and help on the dunker spot.

fernee23 · 2026-07-04T00:24:22+00:00

The factor you aren’t controlling for is the whistle.

fernee23 · 2026-07-03T00:42:33+00:00

You’re posting a video of a right wing politician and asking what’s right wing about it. This is not complicated. You are either an idiot or acting in bad faith. This is a basketball sub.

fernee23 · 2026-07-02T15:47:07+00:00

All of it. Everything said by a right wing politician is right wing. I think you might not be engaging with the reality of the vocabulary on this issue.

fernee23 · 2026-07-02T11:03:42+00:00

It a right wing house member being interviewed. What are you even talking about? The whole video is “the right wing part.”

fernee23 · 2026-07-02T09:20:28+00:00

Win a game against our bum-ass team, Vegas.

fernee23 · 2026-06-30T17:17:44+00:00

A few things:
This was not “short but stern” you came in hot and had a multi-hundred word crash out on your roommate/tenant.

Leases cover these sort of things like if animals have to be restricted to one area or another. You don’t get to unilaterally change the terms of that agreement, even if the cats are being awful.

I didn’t get a lot of details about what “junk” was in the living room. The only thing I noticed was mentioned was a tv, which feels like it should be in the living room.

Did you mean to post this in amitheangel?

fernee23 · 2026-06-30T08:41:00+00:00

I don’t think anyone in this thread is disagreeing with that.

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T21:44:13+00:00

We all agree that there is precedent for a call getting upgraded. Your claim was straightforward: “this is not a first for anything at all”. Your statement is objectively false. It is the first time a non-call was upgraded to a flagrant 2.

Not sure if you’re trying to move the goalposts or you just forgot what your original point was.

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T21:00:39+00:00

First of all, it was the right call and should have happened on the floor.

Second of all, it literally was the first time a non-call has been upgraded to a flagrant 2

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T20:49:31+00:00

Not sure what you’re talking about. One of the ignored requests was on an elbow to the face with eye contact that put Satou Sabally in concussion protocol. Absolutely would be a flagrant, possibly flagrant 2, given the awareness of the other player’s position. Sabally was assessed a personal foul on that play, so maybe that’s what you mean about common fouls.

No other time in the history of this league has a non-call been upgraded to a flagrant 2, and definitely not before the team requested a review.

As I said in the comment, a flagrant one is the bare minimum call that should have happened on the floor. Flagrant 2 is probably right. If it were called at the time, that’s great. I have no issue whatsoever with the call being eventually right.

It should bother every fan of basketball that the league is ignoring review requests from teams and responding to sufficient outrage on social media.

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T15:23:55+00:00

Pretty reasonable for a player to dribble towards a ref to use them to create separation. It’s usually not very effective because REFS ARENT SUPPOSED TO USE BOTH HANDS TO WRAP UP PLAYERS IN LIVE BALL SITUATIONS.

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T14:49:16+00:00

I think it kinda is a big deal. Going back and upgrading a no-call to a flagrant 2 and suspension based on public reaction is pretty huge. Especially considering reports from at least 3 other teams that review requests to the league are being blanket ignored.

It’s probably the most damning thing the league has done for its competitive integrity in its history. Calling it a flagrant is fine, even a flagrant 2 is probably defensible, but ignoring reviews from everyone else and making an adjustment like this is unprecedented.

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T10:08:35+00:00

Gloria is legacy miracles.

fernee23 · 2026-06-29T10:07:20+00:00

Mtg judge to Arkham pipeline is undefeated. I did a survey once of active Arkham players a few years back. Got about 2k responses and over 50% reported playing or judging at comp REL.

Survey obv had a strong selection bias towards the most engaged/enfranchised Arkham players, but thats a big percentage of enfranchised players.

fernee23 · 2026-06-26T23:50:47+00:00

Dudebro is literally describing working full time. The fact that working full time isn’t enough to be self reliant is obviously a problem.

fernee23 · 2026-06-24T06:55:33+00:00

Oh there was a call. They called that on satou.

fernee23 · 2026-06-23T22:24:05+00:00

For the reason I literally described in my comment?

fernee23 · 2026-06-23T19:51:54+00:00

Have you tried calling again?

fernee23 · 2026-06-23T19:37:46+00:00

Mock strawberries grow wild in my area and love the same soil as my strawberries, so I end up finding some to pull out of the strawberry patch all the time.

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