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  1. Merkle's Boner

    Game 1, October 22 vs. New York

    Horford doesn’t look like he can go 30. Will be interesting to see the big rotation.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Very happy the Liberty won. My hot take is that Fiebich will develop into a All-WNBA player over the next few years. Love her game on both ends of the floor.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Really amazing the Liberty has never won a title. Pulling for them to close it out tonight.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    It really has been amazing basketball. Liberty is too strong for the Lynx. Just so many weapons. And I’ve been really impressed with Jones (does anyone else hear John Paul Jones when the announcers say her name). She is a true inside enforcer and has more mobility than I would have expected...
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    On a night with two MLB playoff games, the Bruins home opener against the Habs, and an NFL game featuring a Super Bowl team, this was the game I was drawn to and by far the most intense game of the night. Will be interesting to see the ratings.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Brutal loss for NY. You just can’t lose that game at home. And rough night for Stewie. Gonna be interesting to see if they can respond.
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    The WNBA: Thread II

    I did not know that. Not sure the thinking there, although I’m sure the NCAA will fight changing the rule.
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    The WNBA: Thread II

    We won’t be seeing JuJu Watkins in the W anytime soon. Shams reporting she just signed a shoe contract with Nike that will give her one of the richest shoe deals in women’s basketball. Happy for her but it’s tough for the W to compete when there’s not a real financial incentive to leave school...
  9. Merkle's Boner

    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    The Liberty are playing very well. They seem to have a size advantage over other teams, and Ionescu has an ability to just dial it up when she needs to.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Yeah, I would much prefer the W go up against football than go up against the NBA. There are plenty of basketball fans who are looking for a game to watch through the summer. This is there audience. I'm not sure there's a lot of crossover fans between hardcore NFL dudes and WNBA fans.
  11. Merkle's Boner

    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Ionescu totally took this game over. Very impressive.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Dream ain’t going away quietly. My son is at the game and says the atmosphere is awesome.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Helluva start for the Dream. Didn’t see that coming.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    To be fair, we were only talking about the foul on Caitlin. If I recall correctly, while Carrington was looking for her contact lens (which btw no way am I putting my lens back in my eye after it’s been on a gym floor lol) she can be heard telling the ref that if that was done by anyone else it...
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    Something that is difficult to talk about around this, but I think interesting, is the fact that Dijonai and Fever player Nalyssa Smith are dating. It’s a fascinating dynamic that is, I presume, unique to the WNBA. I have to imagine the locker room convo can get tense if too many Fever players...
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    Roman Anthony, Stud OF and Future of Sox

    The guy on the list posted above that jumped out to me is Jason Heyward. He has had a very interesting career, one that some may consider unimpressive but I’d sign up for a Heyward career any day.
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    Roman Anthony, Stud OF and Future of Sox

    I’m not following you. Are you saying he’s too young to be putting up the numbers he’s putting up? Or too old? For me, the fact that he’s only 20 while doing this, and can thus develop more, makes him far more impressive than Benny. I also think we all forget about Devers making the bigs at 20.
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    2024 WNBA Playoffs

    I’m interested to see the tv ratings for the Boston market. No Pats game today, Caitlin playing against the “local” team.
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    The WNBA: Thread II

    To try to bring it back around to the WNBA, my original point still holds. Because of the financial constraints (currently) on the professional league, the best women’s basketball players may be better off not playing in that league. That can’t be sustainable, and it probably won’t be, as Clark...
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    The WNBA: Thread II

    It really is a weird dynamic, isn’t it? In every other sport, the top pay equates with the top level of competition. It will be interesting to see if this starts to happen at all in the NFL, I’m thinking Arch Manning, but it can’t be good when the top players in your sport can make more money...