WNBA All-Star Game Re-cap!
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by user Manny Stiles
Wow… that pre-game would be awesome if Kate and Aly didn’t sound so not good…but if I was 15, I wouldn’t care…
The game kicks off… Madison Square Garden –
- Katie Douglas gets hot and goes for 10 in the 1st to lead the East, then during a sideline interview, she explains her success comes from her recent marriage to Soiumimonentieurts Jalisskrutswaquaruzivitiskiious, but she’ll keep her maiden name on the jersey…
- Lisa Leslie is an American treasure! She’s been doing this WNBA stuff for a while and 7-0 as an all-star. Seriously, how could ANYONE not like Lisa Leslie?? Girl is supercool.
- I keep telling you boys, these ‘girls’ are world’s best! Simeone Augustus goes ankle breaking with her crossover. Diana Taurasi goes for 2 threes, a steal and an assist in about 40 seconds.
- It’s 29-28 at the end of the 1st quarter…it’s a shootout, AND it’s not sloppy play for an All-Star game! And….when the girls are on, the game FLOWS…A couple nice passes, hitting open shots, playing HARD defense!
- 2nd Quarter – Does ANY league do as much charity/player as the WNBA? – they support every freaking cause!! I love it!
- The whole game’s been miked up: coaches, players… they’re running camera guys onto the court to watch free throws… at least the aren’t afraid to try! I’ve only heard 1 ‘shit’ so far… will keep hoping for more.
- Is it crazy that Karl Malone’s daughter leads the WNBA in rebounding? I guess it makes sense. She just seems like she’s one of those ‘happy-happy’ people until she’s on the court…
- Swoopes and Staley start playing at each other going all ‘throwback’ – bad idea, they both miss a few (badly). Staley gets burned by Candace Dupree, a former player she coached last year at Temple Univ.
- Yes! Lauren Jackson is a basketball godess! She rebounds EVERYTHING and stuffs a shot by grabbing it in mid air like Bill Russell. … the on court demeanor of Tim Duncan… but she’s a 20-10 machine!
- East center 7’2” Margo Dydek changes the game and the West starts chucking 3’s
- Cappy has MAD handle… she shakes her defender down, goes baseline, jumps in the air, twists, turns, contorts and throw a late pass away….nice effort, though. Too bad style points count for nothing!
- After a turnover marred 2nd period…East goes on a run to lead at half 49-40.
- Halftime – The 10th Anniversary
- They show highlights of the first 10 years. It suddenly gets a little dusty in the Stiles Domicile.
- ALL-WNBA team is trounced out a la ‘NBA 50’ style; little kids handing out crystal plaques, crazy leather jackets with patches and all!!! Now the cries are of joy and laughter… I wish ONE of these chicks had a HUGE afro!!!
- Yes, Lauren IS hot in leather too! It just her essence and freakish basketball talent that makes me a fan.
- Cynthia Cooper gets the loudest cheers! Understandably.
- And “those weren’t BOOs when Sheryl Swoops was announced, they were saying SWOOOOOOOPES” – I know people hate it when the obvious is mentioned.
- As people are taking pictures from the stands, I am reminded of the Simpsons where they’re watching a sporting event and the announcer says “…and everybody uses their flash, even though it will have no effect at all…
- I just remembered! Linda Cohn does THE best job of hiding her New York ACCENT!!! Have you ever heard her on Dan Patrick’s show? She sounds worse than Edith Bunker… Once I heard her natural accent, I gained VERY much respect for her…and I thought highly of her before that!
- So I’ve often said certain WNBAers could handle running in the NBA, but most likely would need to be a guard that could pass and shoot the lights OUT…I LOVE Steve Nash, but some of these WNBA guards could defend as good as him, right? Just saying…
- Why does everyone get ruffled by the WNBA but readily accepts women’s tennis and golf? I think a woman will play in MLB before the NBA, NFL or NHL…a speedy, slick fielding excellent bunter and hit and run 2nd Basewomen.
- Yes, Ms. Announcer… Cheryl Ford DOES look like her father, you don’t have to say it 4 times to make it become truer.
- Katie Douglas is playing her ass off! She is informing everyone of her presence.
- What were YOU doing when ESPN broke the news that Man-Ram has a slightly torn meniscus – There’s a “Bird – craps – on – man” story for you… I think 60% of everyone in the world has a SLIGHTLY torn meniscus! 30% of us probably could use some microfracture surgery, and very few of us want the Barbaro treatment…
- Barbaro Update!! Barbaro Update!! His condition has worsened! No crap! The horse BROKE it’s leg in 3,456,542 places! I’ve been around enough horses to know it was unlikely…
- The East is just playing harder and Margo Dydek just changes everything! She looks like Andre the Giant at a high school wrestling match…
- Diana Taurasi could play in the NBA…for like 20 teams…her game is a little bit street, she has handle, flavor and a nice shooting touch. I wouldn’t mind her as Steve Nash’s backup! (No offense, John Salmons!)
- I think someone needs to spoof Gatorade commercials with HGH & Steroids, etc.
- Lindsay Whalen is GUTSY – I have never seen her play NOT hurt! She played with a cast on her wrist in college; her right wrist, she’s right handed… and took the teeam to the Final Four! She has taken the game over!!! She plays like Ray Lewis or Ray Nitzke, like a total animal… Hey, Linsay! This is an All-Star game…
- Sue Bird starts to silence Whalen with slick shooting.
- Whalen emphatically states “I don’t think so” and leads the East to a huge 79-55 lead at the end of the 3rd…could the East pull off it’s first every All-Star victory? Not if Lauren Jackson plays a little more!
- Lisa Leslie let a ‘shit’ go…they didn’t catch it!
- Katie Douglas starting to look like the MVP favorite. Apparently, her Mom and Dad both died of cancer when she was in high school. That sucks, but it’s good to hear she has found solace as Mrs Soiumimonentieurts Jalisskrutswaquaruzivitiskiious
- Katie Smith has also been playing REALLY good… I would put Kobe just barely behind her (tee hee) in players that would take a little pickup game WAY TOO SERIOUSLY…
- Dupree is starting to make a name for herself by destroying her former coach/WNBA legend.
- Just had the first blank out of an actually curse word, wonder what it was?
- Margo Dydek is a Redwood amongst Rose bushes.
- the West is falling apart. The dominance is seeping away…well, with the game nearly out of hand, maybe we’ll get a Lisa Leslie clear-out-and-let-me-dunk… I REALLY want to see Dydek stuff one, but I don’t think she can jump over a line in the dirt.
- I am enjoying Heather Cox and her sideline interviews. Well at least when they said “We’ll go on down to Heather Cox”
- I wonder if they have a disabled list for girls who get pregnant? Nuther time, nuther place…
- Alana Beard? I thought they said Amanda Beard? Just kidding..
- Katie Douglas again for three! Lindsay Whalen is a bigger version of Alice Iverson.
- I keep waiting for Cheryl Ford to take off running up to the MSG offices finding Isiah Thomas and smashing him in the head with her elbow and finish off the job!!!
- Katie Smith is fundamentally sound, and CRAZY!!! I’m now convinced she could make Kobe cry in a pickup game!
- Lots of jumpers in a row, then with 90 seconds left everything gets messy…. Bad passes, turnovers…going into timeout and obligatory stupid phone company commercial, announcer guy says “Will we get to see a dunk tonight? Lisa Leslie had one last year, but will it be somebody different this time?” - great, it’s all been scripted! I got sucked in, and it was all a fake out and none of them even got naked…
- Back to the last 90 seconds…West down 20… CAN THEY DO IT ? ? ?
- In another on court mike pickup - The ref calls a player “sweetie!” That never happens in the NBA.
- Cappy and Simeone show that the WNBA has bright years ahead…
- Diana tries to take off and dunk…..eeewwww…No! (She forgot to take the ankle weights off!) Nice effort, it was entertaining as far as non-dunks go…
- Michelle Snow tries to dunk!!!! STUUUUUFFFED at the rim!!! Grant Hill drinks Sprite!!!
- Snow gets back her own rebound, takes it back baseline, comes back and THROWS DOWN A REVERSE!!!!
- It was a real jam! There ya go!
- Some other girl tries a dunk at the buzzer, but nooooo! (Wouldn't have counted anyway!!)
- It’s over! 98-82 West goes down for the first time!!!
- The President of Vonage is a black guy named Elmer
- MVP – Katie Douglas – she clearly outplayed everyone else and barely outplayed Katie Smith!
- None of my predictions came true…this game would be tough to bet on!
- All the players seem to like each other, they know they need each other to make the league work. It’s the best athletes in the world at their sport, and they’re good.
- I am a WNBA fan…
Go Mercury!
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Wed 07/12/06, 5:37 pm EST
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