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Post by toad455 on Jun 22, 2024 8:43:53 GMT -5
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Post by bluedevilsdsufan5 on Jun 22, 2024 12:48:22 GMT -5
NY and Minny letβs get it plz ππ½ππ½
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Post by toad455 on Jun 23, 2024 7:36:14 GMT -5
Who's worse now, Wings or Dream? Both have looked pathetic the past two weeks.
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Post by clayk on Jun 23, 2024 9:27:10 GMT -5
They're both awful. A couple injuries and teams just can't compete.
Expansion is scary -- there's just not enough talent.
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Post by toad455 on Jun 23, 2024 9:39:46 GMT -5
They're both awful. A couple injuries and teams just can't compete. Expansion is scary -- there's just not enough talent. Dream are a different story from Dallas. Dream are without Canada and now Howard. Wings have a laundry list of injuries and Billings, on a hardship, is one of their best players. Wings are still a cluster*ck of a franchise that can't develop youth. They traded Dangerfield, waived Burton and didn't bring back Sims and threw a foreigner PG in Uzun as their starter for the season.
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Post by wbbfan2020 on Jun 23, 2024 10:11:32 GMT -5
i think the new CBA will help for expansion teams. If rookies can get $100k, that'll entice foreigners to come over more. Golden State might end up getting someone like Billings, Sims, etc., and they can throw money at players that can't re-sign with their current team. I'd be the Valkyries get Han Xu as well. Do they offer someone like Liz Cambage the max? Can they offer a player the supermax? The expansion draft will be interesting to see how it turns out. And then it'll repeat for 2026 and possibilty 2027.
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Post by clayk on Jun 24, 2024 11:01:44 GMT -5
I question how many foreign players will be difference makers in the W, especially since the vast majority of them will prioritize their national teams every other year. And the money really isn't that good -- though there will be more.
And with women's soccer booming in Europe, I think most if not all elite female athletes are going to focus on soccer from here on out.
Atlanta does have Canada back now, though Howard is out, but injuries are inevitable. Good basketball teams have eight-player rotations, and when a starter goes down (as they will), the reserve can step in and be competent. How many WNBA teams have solid eight-player rotations? (The NBA has 30 teams, remember.) How many WNBA teams have a quality sixth player?
All of which means one critical mistake -- coring EDD -- can crush a franchise. There's just no margin for error. Picking an injury-prone player like Satou Sabally (the best predictor of future injuries is past injuries) is a very high-risk move in this environment as you just can't make up for a star going down.
That doesn't mean the WNBA can't be fun, as two mediocre teams played a great game yesterday, and the streaming/TV market depends on live sports, but the quality of the product will go down. Will that matter? Most likely, but hopefully not enough to matter.
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