#and i don't think dt becomes the player the league knows without having a true pg [vs her playing point] | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-physicality · 2 months ago

Text

i do think, aside from mercury bias, if bg had been in all season she would have been all wnba, first or at least second. i think people undervalue her because of the rebounding but she is 1000% the worst officiated player in the league, on both sides of the court. so the fact that she's been able to have the performance that she had is incredible, and that she didn't get the acknowledgment really just underscores how much people take what she does for granted.

#i saw something interesting that kim milky basically has her players specialize and so they come out of college less well rounded #exhibit a angel's shooting vs rebounding #and i didn't watch bg in college so maybe i'm totally wrong on this but maybe rebounding just wasn't he job #and then i saw on reddit or something that maybe because she is so poorly officiated she'd get called for too many fouls on rebounding #for it to be worth it #and while i understand the value of rebounding really i do the mercy's problem wasn't that they weren't trying #well sometimes it was but it was that their whole system wasn't designed for it #if you have 4 players on the perimeter to space and shoot 3 #you're going to hope they go in and run the floor instead #teams that rebound well dedicate bodies and time to rebounding #and i believe that it was a conscious choice the merc made to not do that #and if you look at old merc games they struggled with rebounding then too #i actually will have more to say about this in the future but the mercury's style of play has lived and died with dt's style for 20 years #the mercury have the most 100 point games of any franchise #and they are responsible for most of the 200 point total scores across the league #ie their fast break and bad defense lol #and while it's not entirely true - she is not responsible for every result they've ever had - i don't think you get westhead's style of pla #to work without her talent and the penny cappie dt trio in 2006 #or at least it isn't successful and maybe doesn't change the pace of play in the league the way it did #it's also interesting that if the lottery draw goes differently in 2006 and merc have the first pick do they get seimone or do they stick #cappie? i think they stick with cappie bc they needed a true pg and from what i've seen seimone is a 2/3 #and i don't think dt becomes the player the league knows without having a true pg [vs her playing point]#the thing is dt can play point better than most people but i think she plays better when she has someone else there to help #and her talking about oh i should've won mvp in 2006 [when i dropped 40] [lisa leslie won that year]#and in 2014 [best team ever] [maya moore won that year]#you look at the stats and there is for sure an argument to be made there #but it all comes back to post players #and i know wikipedia says maya is a power forward but she seems like more of a 3 sometimes? i haven't watched her enough #but i don't think dt can win mvp in 2009 without that team specifically #which means [and this is my theory of life] that everything happens the way it has to happen for you to end up where you are today

3 notes · View notes