Submitted by | DjShorty

Pregame was incredible, I have never actually watched the storm warm up for a long period of time it was a lot of fun seeing Bird, Kamila, Lauren, Lassister, Tully, Bronds up close was so cool Anne Donovan holy moly guacamole she is tall  
 
Burras got some flowers from some fans before the game, that was really nice, but hey.. there also was a sign some fans held up with like uconn and tennessee written on it.. not sure what that was about.
 
The storm looked a bit too loose and relaxed warming up that was my take on the whole thing, but yet they were confident and ready to play. It's amazing to see Lauren up close, cause I walked down to the floor and took some pictures. She is definitely tall and was a monster tonight in the game. Brondello is awesome, I'll get to a great story at the end of this game report that you guys will like.
 
Onto shorty's fizzles and fo' shizzles:
 
We need to plan this better next time cause I entered on the southeast entrance of the arena sorry guys at least I waved to you or made every effort too. So I wave to SF7, shed, trinity, and scowl, admin, leighway, birdjack, stormincali, didn't get to meet the east coast storm fans you must have all been behind the bench, I waved and I hope you saw me, I had the L J jersey on and my hawaiian hat that was me.
 
The national anthem singer was awesome, that's the best one that I have seen yet at arco arena his soulful voice was beautiful.  
 
The player introductions were cool, everyone cheered for the storm players and bird got some loud cheers too as well as lauren and everyone else.  Lawson got loud cheers too when her name was called they really must like her being in Sacramento, she definitely showed that tonight.. Okay they announced Kamila's last name wrong that about ticked me off.. they said something like Vonickova.. I was like it's Vodichkova damn it get it right.
 
The game was physical and very aggressive, but the storm looked very good early. Then all of a sudden the monarchs decide to go on a run and Donovan  was disgusted and I could tell, she took a lot of timeouts tonight and was furious in the huddle, I am sure the stormfans who were sitting behind the bench saw the look on her face. Sandy found her shooting groove again which was nice to see and Tully either got punched in the nose or hit because she was bleeding and left the game to be attended too.  The highlight I liked was the open layup bird had that was incredible and her passes to Lassister, Kamila and L J were a bit off, but they were able to grab them.  
 
Bird kept getting knocked down, beaten up and thrown around out there, I saw her limping a lot on that knee, damn monarch players that's what i got mad at them about. The funniest thing was Lawson and Kamila having a jump ball of course Kamila won that.
 
LJ was trying to find her shot in the first half, they were falling as much as they could and the easy ones sometimes either did not fall or she forced them in too hard. The rest of the bench was non-existent tonight they didn't play a smooth game and I feel the storm SHOULD, I mean SHOULD have won this game damn it!
 
Lawson was on fire hitting everything, three pointers, layups and ticha's no look passes were off the hook.
 
During the game:
 
The hip-hop crew came out in their disco outfits and I danced to staying alive hell yeah!! Their moves were outstanding. They were doing the John Travolta moves. yay!
 
What was up with those ladies shooting.. they used no wrist whatsoever and the matching game.. wow lol.. and monty(that's the sacramento mascot spilled  cake on some man it was funny.
 
More scoring from the monarchs in the first half and the score at halftime was Monarchs 46, Storm 29.(that's a 17 point lead going into halftime) and I am sure Anne Donovan was very very furious!!
 
I was in a rage at this point and decided to go and walk around for a few minutes and just try and relax. I did get something to drink to calm my nerves.
 
Second half of Shorty's fizzles and fo' shizzles:
 
The bird to lassister show was quite cool and birds jumpers most of them were following, but the monarchs continued to pound it inside on the storm and create a lot of things the storm just couldn't keep up with.  
 
With about 15:55 left, the storm were only down 58-40 and then they worked their way back into the game and with about 8:10 left the score was 69-56, then the monarchs took over from their and kept on scoring.
 
Kamila's transition layups and LJ's were booyah!! I love it when they can just make a shot as easy as pie. Yet, Ticha and company were on fire.
 
LJ's monster blocks were huge!! oh my gosh that girl can frikkin' block!! booyah!!! I loved it!! everytime a monarch player would try and shoot, she would say nope, your getting shuuuuuttttttttttt doooooooowwwwwwnnnnn.  
 
Lauren ended up with a double-double tonight and 23 points on the evening. She stayed out of foul trouble tonight and I was happy to see that.
 
Anne Donovan was very animated on the sidelines, getting into the refs face and even one of the assistant coaches were furious with the refs too, there was one guy, and two ladies reffing the game, did not catch their name as I must have somehow left my program at the arena, again, my bad.  
 
The reffing, I thought was crap and inconsistent. Where I was sitting, I had a great view of what was going on. Some of the calls were going the storm's way and Yolanda was furious with the offensive foul and I think it was Tully who got called for the charge too, but that was in the second half of the game. I kept taking notes on what I thought was good and bad and incoporated that into my game report, which helped me write this tonight.
 
They were getting killed on the boards too, I mean seattle, picked up their rebounding a lot in the second half, but could not keep up with the monarchs and their passes were sailing into the seats like there was no tomorrow. As far as I am concerned the monarchs were playing rather aggressive tonight and literally hurt two of our storm players.
 
I decided to move and sat next to some wonderful people who were from the east bay who like storm basketball and the husband's favorite player was brondello that was cool and I talked to the lady and told her how I got to becoming a storm fan it was cool. Okay, so I was sitting behind some of Lassister's family which was cool, they mentioned that too me during the game when it was almost over. After 3:00 minutes of the game were left, I left because I knew it was over and done with the storm would not be victorious tonight.
 
As a team, they have improved a lot since last year and I give all the credit to Anne Donovan, she has them playing outstanding basketball. The storm basketball team were amazing to watch and to see upclose, I kept saying to myself.. how tall is L J again.. oh yeah 6'5'' and tully she is around my height, which I think is cool.

Submitted by | StorminInCali

The game was...u.g.l.y. I blame Arco for that one. Arco is f.u.g.l.y. I'm going to call myself Cleopatra and live in Denial about this one. Ugh.  
 
Our passes were just weak. Sacto anticipated a lot of our moves, plays, throws, breaths, you name it they had our number from the get go. It was just bad.  NO other way to put it I'm afraid.  
 
We had a couple good runs, at one point the lead was cut down to 8 or 9 but then Sacto just fired right back up and we went back down by 15.  
 
AD was not a very happy camper, not at all. She was not happy with the team, not happy with the game, and DEFFO not happy with the refs.  *shudder*  Hate to be in that locker room.  
 
2nd half honestly wasn't any better. We tried to avoid gettin into fights with fans, well most of us *coughangiecough* and I tried not to get swallowed whole by the hair next to me. Mullets. *double shudder* (oh and if I offended anyone b/c you have a mullet, get over it.  Your hair sucks.)
 
The rest of the weekend, however, kicked total ass. Had a wonderful time with Admin, Ms. Admin, Jezzie, Leighway, BirdJack, Trinity, Mr. Trinity, Shed and SF7! Mucho much thanks to BirdJack's family for housing us and daring to have me around. I hoped they learned their lesson now. :-p

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