Submitted by | JRod

What a game!  Sue was a bit off, but TULLY!  Seattle fans saw, last night, a bit of what SF7 and I had the pleasure of seeing for 3 years in Portland.  Tully can step back and shot the 3, at any given time. I was so pleased for her tonight. All she needed was some playing time and I knew her offense would come. Sure enough, AD gave her the minutes and "bam" 14 points.  Good onya, mate--awesome way to step up.
 
Lassi, Lassi, Lassi--monster block girlfriend, monster block.  
 
Dawn Staley:  I know you're a great player, we all know that.  But, if you want to be a ref, you need to do 2 things. 1. Retire as a player first, and 2.  Give up your coaching job at Temple. Then you too can become a mediocre ref in the WNBA. I hate to make the comparison, but I haven't seen a player try to officiate a game like that, other than She Who Must Not Be Named.  Play the damn game, Dawn, and quit whining. It's unbecoming to a player of your experience. (As you can tell, Staley's antics in this respect really bugged me.
 
Eclair, please thank the croissant for catching Tully.
 
Okay, Mrs. Admin mentioned, at Mr. Lucky's, a stat that Mr. Admin had come up with, about our bench play. He'll have to fill ya in on the stat, but Scott--I think the bench did it.
 
Our new player, Tonya Massiline, looked pretty good. She's only been with the team for what, 2 or 3 days? Hey, she scored and didn't look half bad on defense.
 
MVP, MVP, MVP!!!  Lauren Jackson is a monster!  No, Lauren Jackson is a beast!  No, no--Lauren Jackson is a stud!  Well actually, she's all of the above. 23 and 20, what a night Miss Jackson. My God, she has got to get the MVP. If the league and the sportswriters didn't take notice of this game, they're all a bunch of flaming idiots (And yes, I did clean that one up).

Submitted by | Leighway

The bench produced in a big way and LJ did it again... only this time she did it BIG! I honestly cannot see them giving the MVP to any other player in the league at this point, but we all know if they don’t win the Championship she will not get the award.

I noticed that Sue was in pain early in the game... there was a time when she was waiting for LJ to take the ball out of bounds and Sue was standing in front of the Storm bench, she bent down and had an awful look on her face and I believe what she asked AD was to be taken out of the game. This did not happen though and just about every time she walked to the bench she had the same look. I’m thinking that her role last night was that of being on the floor… however I will say she had some really good defensive moments and on one occasion the Sting got the ball off Tully and she some how stopped Dawn from getting offense going, which lead to a TO.

Speaking of Tully… someone lit a fire under her last night. With Sue not playing that much, even when on the court, it was clear they needed the bench to step up; and they did big time. I was impressed with the 4/5 shooting… though I don’t know how she does it… she reminds me of a sidearm in baseball.  Hey, whatever works and puts it in the basket is okay with me.

Lassi… YIKES… she is a blocking machine at times. That block was a huge boost for the Storm, who seemed to be dragging even after 4 days off. I also think that Tully hitting baskets breathed new life into the team and they seemed to have waked up halfway through the second half.

Some of my favorite moments: Sue looking up at the scoreboard at the North end and seeing how many rebounds LJ had, then running up to her at the free throw line to tell her; both of them giggled like little girls and LJ had a big grin on her face while she shot her second free throw… luckily making it.
Sue trying to get the crowd cheering let go of the basketball and one of the Sting players came after it, she grabbed it and when the buzzer went off she handed the game ball to LJ then hugged her.

The player intros just get better and better… now Simone not only shimmies with Doppler but goes into the middle of the Strom Dance Troupe and shimmies with them. It was SO cute. LJ busted me up when she came out and body slammed everyone but Burras who jumped back when LJ approached her, laughed, shook her head and waved her hand at her so LJ just gave her a high five. I guess Burras is a little scared of LJ’s slams.

Submitted by | Leighway

Key Arena is now surrounded by big concrete balls. They look like Swiss exercise balls made of cement. I understand they're to keep possible terrorists from crashing trucks full of bombs into large buildings like the Key. Wow, I feel so safe now.  
 
Tully went down and kinda bruised her knees in the first half. At the beginning of the second half jezzie and I were looking to the right and then looked back to the left. Out of nowhere there suddenly was our Tully, sitting practically right beside us on the exercise bike. (that's what they have injured players do to stay warm, is to ride the bike). But the suddenness of hear appearance coupled with her intense proximity and her natural goofy expression made for a very comedic effect. Leighway and Birdjack joined us in giggling.
 
Ah, the refs. For once Sally Bell wasn't the worst one. It was #20, Theresa Delham. I let her know how I felt, but perhaps not as well as Lauren did. The Sting mugged her under the basket and once again it was not called. Lauren stood up and said to the ref drily, "can I get a f*cking foul?" Damn that was funny.
 
You know now Lauren's points always sneak up on you. Same happened with her rebounds last night. Suddenly they put it on the big screen that she'd just hit 18 and broke the franchise record. The crowd started to buzz and Bird and her started laughing. Right after that Lauren got another rebound and all of us turned to each other and were practially yelling, in giddiness, "19!" That was so sweet.  
 
We stood around processing the game til the ushers asked us to leave.
 
Before that, Donovan emerged from the locker room and was looking for a group of tall people - must have been family. Wnbafanforever called to them for her and they came down. I would bet Donovan doesn't have too many short peeps in her family.

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