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Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:25 am
by biggestbullsfan
Need the Bears and the Bulls to have strong drafts too lol
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:35 am
by nomorezorro
nomorezorro wrote:seems like the obvious thing to hope for is coming away with cardoso (or brink, if the sparks pass on her for some reason) + reese
damn i should be a professional wnba draft analyst...
gimme a shooter at 13 now...brynna maxwell, sara scalia, jaz shelley or helena pueyo seem like the best choices based on 5 minutes of research, even though they'd all be "reaches" according to the one mock draft i looked at. but i think we've established that i know better than espn does
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:35 am
by Charlesareed
biggestbullsfan wrote:Need the Bears and the Bulls to have strong drafts too lol
Twin towers let’s go
If the bears can get Caleb williams & MHJ watch out I’ll settle for Rome tho cause he pretty good in his own right
Bulls messed up we could’ve gotta Wemby or Brandon miller last draft this draft is weak cause
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:46 am
by dougthonus
I don't know much about the WNBA draft, but man twin towers doesn't seem the way to go in any basketball league these days.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:50 am
by fleet
dougthonus wrote:I don't know much about the WNBA draft, but man twin towers doesn't seem the way to go in any basketball league these days.
Selling tickets man.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:51 am
by nomorezorro
nomorezorro wrote:nomorezorro wrote:seems like the obvious thing to hope for is coming away with cardoso (or brink, if the sparks pass on her for some reason) + reese
damn i should be a professional wnba draft analyst...
gimme a shooter at 13 now...brynna maxwell, sara scalia, jaz shelley or helena pueyo seem like the best choices based on 5 minutes of research, even though they'd all be "reaches" according to the one mock draft i looked at. but i think we've established that i know better than espn does
holy **** i did it
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:58 am
by biggestbullsfan
Charlesareed wrote:biggestbullsfan wrote:Need the Bears and the Bulls to have strong drafts too lol
Twin towers let’s go
If the bears can get Caleb williams & MHJ watch out I’ll settle for Rome tho cause he pretty good in his own right
Bulls messed up we could’ve gotta Wemby or Brandon miller last draft this draft is weak cause
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:00 am
by nomorezorro
dougthonus wrote:I don't know much about the WNBA draft, but man twin towers doesn't seem the way to go in any basketball league these days.
the three best players in the WNBA are pfs, two of whom don't really shoot threes. basically all of the MVPs over the past decade have been PF/Cs other than delle donne, who is a very big SF. one or both of cardoso/reese are gonna have to develop at least a solid midrange game, but the WNBA is very much still a league where you can thrive with twin towers
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:00 am
by Betta Bulleavit
dougthonus wrote:I don't know much about the WNBA draft, but man twin towers doesn't seem the way to go in any basketball league these days.
It works when they both can defend and rebound at a high level. It forces other teams to become jump shooters, which is fine if you’re the Liberty or the Aces. But for most other teams, they’ll struggle against the type of size and defense that these two will bring. So it’s a nice foundation.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:00 am
by TheSuzerain
That trade up still seems steep.
But Carodoso/Reese is basically an ideal outcome.
Sky guards suck though. Maybe we tank for a season for Bueckers or PaoPao.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:05 am
by nomorezorro
can't tank when dallas has the right to swap picks with us
the mabrey trade was sooooo bad
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:13 am
by Betta Bulleavit
nomorezorro wrote:can't tank when dallas has the right to swap picks with us
the mabrey trade was sooooo bad
Yeah, I didn’t understand that trade at all. If the Sky want better guards, they will need to get one or two via free agency.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:17 am
by Charlesareed
Chicago Sky won’t this draft got 2 of the best 5 players in the draft the 2 best defensive & rebounding players plus a shooters in brynna sky is the limit no pun intended
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:22 am
by nitetrain8603
nomorezorro wrote:can't tank when dallas has the right to swap picks with us
the mabrey trade was sooooo bad
That trade made no sense when they made it and worse sense now. Just terrible. I like everything else, but man if you could've teamed up Paige with this squad, they would be ready to tear it up next season and for the following 5-7 seasons.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:30 am
by nomorezorro
the crazy thing is, mabrey had just about as good a season as you could reasonably expect from her last year. arguably the best in her career. and she was...pretty good?
i can make sense of why wade was willing to mortgage the team's future ahead of a couple of incredible draft classes (because he already had a foot out the door), but i still have zero clue as to why mabrey was the person he thought was worth doing it for. (or why he decided to do it after the championship team had already basically completely disbanded, and vegas/ny assembled superteams that we were never in a million years going to compete with)
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:01 am
by nitetrain8603
nomorezorro wrote:the crazy thing is, mabrey had just about as good a season as you could reasonably expect from her last year. arguably the best in her career. and she was...pretty good?
i can make sense of why wade was willing to mortgage the team's future ahead of a couple of incredible draft classes (because he already had a foot out the door), but i still have zero clue as to why mabrey was the person he thought was worth doing it for. (or why he decided to do it after the championship team had already basically completely disbanded, and vegas/ny assembled superteams that we were never in a million years going to compete with)
Why did he? The team had disbanded, but I'm not familiar with the inner workings of their FO and GM at the time. For example, don't know why we cycled through a couple in such a short time span immediately coming off of the championship. The price at the time, to me, seemed like you were getting a Breanna Stewart in waiting or at least a Skylar Diggins who, worst case scenario, had some marketing appeal.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:51 am
by Jeffster81
Jcool0 wrote:Jeffster81 wrote:I am perfectly fine with that trade. You gave up a 2nd, a former 3rd pick, and the rights to swap first round picks to move up one spot and ensure the player you covets. A bit much but nothing to get work up about. If you walk out of the draft with Rickea Jackson and Angel Reese, then it's worth it, to me.
Kamilla Cardoso is making a late push to be taken at 3.
Cardoso/Reese is more than fine with me.
Clark goes to Indiana and Reese goes to Chicago. Clark cannot get away from Reese.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:50 am
by MrSparkle
F***- I’m more interested in the Chicago Sky than I am in the Bulls off-season.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:21 am
by Jeffster81
MrSparkle wrote:F***- I’m more interested in the Chicago Sky than I am in the Bulls off-season.
You are not the only one.
Re: Kudos to NCAA Women's Tourney for tonight's matchups
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:54 am
by wojoaderge
100% going to a Sky game now, probably the first one