Submitted by | scowl

Nicole Ohlde: Where did she come from? This rookie was pulling moves on LJ and shooting wonderfully. I think we have someone to worry about here unless we can count on her fouling out every game.
 
Katie Smith: What was her first shot? A three pointer off of a text book screen that our defense couldn't switch on! Good thing that didn't happen very often.
 
Teresa Edwards: Every time I thought she's getting on in her years, she did something incredible.  
 
Michele Van Gorp: She's a mystery around the bench. She seems unemotional and detached, yet curses and seems to be dying when her team is losing. She also appears to be in pain just walking around.
 
Betty Lennox: You can't say she's not trying her damnest to get with the program! Her shooting wasn't too good but it's improving and she was pure hustle getting those rebounds. I'm not sure if that stumblebum move that sent herself to the floor was a good sign (she had a clear path to the basket!) or a bad sign (her feet aren't moving the way she expects).
 
Michelle Greco: OK she didn't play but she had a perma-grin on her face all through the warm ups.  
 
Overall the officiating was terribly inconsistant. They called the game way too tight which really helped us (we were in the bonus real early in the first half) but then they let Betty get completely run over in midcourt. When a player is on his or her knees I'm pretty sure they have position. Maybe the WNBA had decided those things are incidental contact and to only call fouls that will give a player an advantage.

Submitted by | Shed

The What the Heck was the ref looking at award definitely goes to the Amanda Lassiter out of bounds non-call.  I don't often jump up and yell at refs but from my seat, which looks directly along the boundry line in question, the ball was fairly and squarely dribbled out of bounds and the ref was right beside it.  From her Space Needle vantage point, even Anne saw it as out as she was looking over the top of the ref at the call and she blew her block.  In fact she went off more over this call than she did the other night when she got T'd and I was thinking "here we go again", but she was totally correct with her emotions and I think I really like this new more agro side of our coach.
 
Sheri Sam started off the game defensively on fire, but overall Katie Smith played all around her.
 
Lennox can be good for us, but she still needs lots of work.  She's improved every game, but continues to go for the flashy play instead of the percentage play way too many times.  The highlight of Bird's game last night was her excellent shot selection and it's definitely something Lennox can take onboard.
 
Something that I've noticed during the 3 games I've seen this season is a defensive lapse and everytime it happens we are burnt.  It usually starts with our players defending well in the play, but hits a point were our D doesn't rotate and collapses to one side leaving 1 sometimes 2 players free on the 3 point line just waiting to drop a shot on us.  This must have happened at least 4 times last night.  Having seen this everytime during the 3 games, I thought it would have been addressed, and maybe it has, but the fixit is not working at the moment and we can't allow this to keep happening.
 
I bought a rally monkey before the game and have discovered, along with SF7 ummm SF20 it comes in handy at times.  Down the stretch when we were fighting for the win, everytime our players would go to the free throw line we would rub the monkey's head and then switch into spirit fingers.  Worked like a charm everytime and now rally monkey, which I'm yet to name, will be coming with me to all games.  Another advantage is that Doppler is afraid of it, which can only be good.  He's so afraid that at one point he tried to eat said monkey but we fought Doppler off and monkey lives to fight another day.

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