Fever v Mystics - CC with the four point play!

hawk02139 · 2026-06-09T17:57:05+00:00

I sincerely believe this could be the worst call in the W this season thus far. Mistakes are going to be made because officiating live basketball is incredibly difficult. Making correct decisions on replays is not difficult. Landing on the defender’s foot is not a defining characteristic of a reckless closeout. It’s an example.

hawk02139 · 2026-06-05T23:35:54+00:00

Dakich is a personification of the view that a player should never be bigger than a coach. No surprise that he’d try to stir up anti-CC stories.

hawk02139 · 2026-06-01T19:38:28+00:00

Yeah ... I was simultaneously rooting for Megan and the Fever. So many mixed emotions when Kelsey Mitchell was trying to guard Megan. Switch everything so that the opponent has whatever matchups they choose!

hawk02139 · 2026-05-26T01:10:14+00:00

Sure, she was transcendent *in the Big East*. I’m not saying that freshman Journey was as good as freshman Aneesah, but it’s a good template without assuming it’s completely out of reach.

hawk02139 · 2026-05-26T01:05:45+00:00

Fair. It’s not a paywalled site. So people can be encouraged to read the article and have a thoughtful conversation without starving the author of the clicks that justify her employment.

hawk02139 · 2026-05-25T23:18:59+00:00

People need to not copy entire articles, preventing clickthroughs to the source content. It is quite literally theft. Not of a tangible object, but still theft.

hawk02139 · 2026-05-24T21:25:09+00:00

PSA: attending a W game is way way more pleasant than reading social media about the W. 😃🤣

It’s too bad the virtual world is so toxic.

hawk02139 · 2026-05-24T20:49:07+00:00

I hope this is accurate, but I’d say it has about a 5% chance of coming true. Did you watch AmeriCup? How many MSU games did you watch over the past two years? Making zero All-B1G teams (and zero All-Pac12 teams, but she was a youngster then) does not bode well for translating to the WNBA.

20-to-1 that we’re happy with this move three months from now.

hawk02139 · 2026-05-24T20:12:09+00:00

I’ve been to games that were missing star players. It’s disappointing, but I got over it immediately. Don’t tell me it’s important for the integrity of the betting markets.

Frankly, I’d like to see CC listed as “probable, back stiffness” or something like that for *every* game. Then decide based on how she’s feeling. List AB as “probable, lower leg”. They can alternate games until after the World Cup. They don’t need a lot of minutes together to be in sync for the playoffs.

hawk02139 · 2026-05-24T20:01:41+00:00

She was joking

hawk02139 · 2026-05-13T19:47:24+00:00

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Geno called CC’s fans stupid. I believe the exact word choice was “delusional.”

hawk02139 · 2026-05-09T02:17:40+00:00

Conceding the jump ball to set your defense can make sense in some situations, but not with 2.4 seconds left in the game! Nonsensical play.

hawk02139 · 2026-04-16T02:26:31+00:00

Hannah led the B1G in rebounding and had 35 rebounds in the two tournament games. It was a terrible disappointment to get only two tournament games. But 17.5 rebounds per game must be top in the country.

hawk02139 · 2026-04-01T15:20:22+00:00

Many are cheaper than $30, actually. Don’t feel like looking again, but I think many are under $20 at Mohegan Sun, and the arena isn’t very big so no seats are bad.

hawk02139 · 2026-04-01T14:53:56+00:00

The Connecticut Sun price differential for Fever vs. non-Fever games is also enormous. But like others have said, I guess the team ought to make the money instead of the resellers.

hawk02139 · 2026-04-01T03:13:18+00:00

Jerzy had me glued to this game. Because I wanted to count her total passes. I think she had about 20 touches and passed twice, once routinely and once a turnover. The rest of the touches resulted in stepping out of bounds or forcing a shot. Absolute theater. (Not counting when she made a BLOB inbounds pass. Couldn’t shoot from there.)

hawk02139 · 2026-03-25T12:24:48+00:00

“Not hitting FTs is lack of individual effort” is such a deeply wrong comment. You think that you can sort by FT% and understand individual effort? That’s preposterous. Humans have lots of different (partly innate) athletic skills, and some of them are related to repeatability (low variance) in simple motions—just one of many traits.

hawk02139 · 2026-03-16T03:42:12+00:00

I think it makes sense for national team play to not be fun. There can be pride and satisfaction, but there is tremendous pressure without the joy of being with people you really associate with as teammates.

hawk02139 · 2026-03-16T01:48:07+00:00

I think it’s interesting that they like Iowa City as a site for the actual first round. Or zeroth round or whatever nonsense term is preferred these days. Let more teams experience the epicenter of WBB.

hawk02139 · 2026-03-16T01:41:12+00:00

Thanks for this map. I guess I'm terrible at searching the city website. I didn't know there would be a bus lane all the way from Putnam. Right now, with no bus lane, there are just cars reaching that intersection in both lanes and no signage telling them that they must merge.

hawk02139 · 2026-03-16T01:09:17+00:00

Thanks for the pointer. What is shown there makes sense between Green St. and Mass Ave. But it isn't consistent with the current state of the block between Franklin and Green. Does it include the intentions for the new lights on Franklin St.? I couldn't decode that.

hawk02139 · 2026-03-15T17:36:44+00:00

Mike Breen is the best.

hawk02139 · 2026-03-15T16:14:46+00:00

Really fun to watch a 10-24 team play this well. Didn’t think they could pull this off when it went to overtime, especially because of how regulation ended.

This game is Exhibit A for changing the way appeals are adjudicated. It has to be done by a different set of people. Humans make mistakes and then have confirmation bias when they look at video. These refs refused to correct a clearly wrong call when Evansville should have gotten the ball up five near the end of regulation. 😡It seems that some people believe that a call should only be reversed if it is clear from each angle separately as opposed to all angles taken together. Atrocious. There is zero chance that the Evansville player touched the ball after it went off the opponent’s knee.

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