Minnesota is next up, a team who just finished a road trip where they lost to last place Houston and beat first place San Antonio. They have no consistency in their win loss pattern from which to judge how they will play. They have lost at home to Atlanta, Chicago and Sacramento but beat Detroit and San Antonio. The only useful trend that I could find was that they generally lose to strong defensive teams if Augustus can be held below 15. The only time that was not true was opening night when rookie Charde Houston's 21 points made Augustus' mere 14 a non-issue. My suggestion is to refocus on defense and smother Seimone.
Storm
Most Effective Shooters
Player | True Shooting Percentage | Effective FG% | Floor Percentage | Points |
| Sheryl Swoopes | 100% | 100% | 31% | 2 |
| Sue Bird | 65% | 69% | 41% | 11 |
| Katie Gearlds | 65% | 65% | 33% | 13 |
| Yolanda Griffith | 63% | 67% | 76% | 6 |
| Camille Little | 51% | 44% | 45% | 10 |
Sheryl Swoopes barely played and it looks like Yo didn't touch the ball near enough, likely due to a failure to box out. Gearlds and Bird were shooting well, and hopefully Katie can carry that hot streak to the next game.
Top Ratings
| Player | Offensive Rating | Individual Rating |
| Yolanda Griffith | 142.82 | 125.20 |
| Camille Little | 93.85 | 79.12 |
| Kelly Santos | 91.99 | 75.24 |
| Sue Bird | 89.13 | 88.91 |
| Katie Gearlds | 86.76 | 84.81 |
Raw Plus Minus
Swin Cash: -5Yolanda Griffith: -6
Kristin O'Neil: -7
Sheryl Swoopes: -13
Camille Little: -13
Kelly Santos: -14
Sue Bird: -16
Katie Gearlds: -16
Shyra Ely: -21
Tanisha Wright: -27
Tanisha Wright has really struggled in the last two games.
Most Effective Lineups
Bird-Swoopes-Cash-Little-Griffith: +2
Wright-Gearlds-Cash-Little-Santos: +1
Mystics
Most Effective Shooters
Player | True Shooting Percentage | Effective FG% | Floor Percentage | Points |
| Nikki Blue | 150% | 150% | 53% | 9 |
| Laurie Koehn | 100% | 100% | 34% | 6 |
| Crystal Smith | 92% | 88% | 67% | 9 |
| Bernice Mosby | 80% | 80% | 64% | 8 |
| Taj McWilliams-Franklin | 73% | 73% | 54% | 22 |
| Monique Currie | 69% | 50% | 62% | 12 |
| Coco Miller | 61% | 63% | 31% | 6 |
| Nakia Sanford | 59% | 60% | 57% | 8 |
The only players who shot under 50% were Alana Beard and Crystal Langhorne. Everyone got in on the party.
Top Ratings
| Player | Offensive Rating | Individual Rating |
| Nikki Blue | 158.51 | 214.96 |
| Crystal Smith | 158.36 | 155.19 |
| Monique Currie | 140.26 | 122.98 |
| Bernice Mosby | 131.80 | 126.79 |
| Taj McWilliams-Franklin | 118.94 | 118.32 |
| Nakia Sanford | 111.39 | 101.85 |
| Laurie Koehn | 102.95 | 192.58 |
Nikki Blue, Crystal Smith and Nakia Sanford didn't appear to agree with former Coach Tree Rollins' assessment:
"You've got to have a good point [guard] and a good center and you build around those two positions, and right now the Washington Mystics just don't have that going for them," Rollins said. "Other teams took advantage of that."Raw Plus Minus
Crystal Langhorne: +32
Monique Currie: +22
Crystal Smith: +21
Bernice Mosby: +21
Alana Beard: +18
Coco Miller: +17
Nikki Blue: +5
Taj McWilliams-Franklin: +7
Laurie Koehn: +5
Nakia Sanford: +4
Kendra Wecker: +1
Most Effective Lineups
Smith-Beard-Koehn-Mosby-Langhorne: +6
Blue-Miller-Currie-Mosby-Langhorne: +6
Smith-Miller-Currie-Mosby-Langhorne: +5
Blue-Beard-Wecker-McWilliams^Franklin-Mosby:+5
3 comments:
T seems to be pressing too hard with LJ gone. She tends to play poorly when she does this. There are other players (at least in Indy) that are expected to step up their games and replace LJ's numbers. We just need T to be good T. She's playing a very bad impression of Bad Betty in the past two games.
Hi! Good job on the Lynx game prediction. :) That was a little too close for comfort for me though. Haha
If Yo and Sheryl are still hobbled by the Phoenix game, we're down to 9 players. Not really ideal given the running-game they employ. :(
I agree that T succeeds less when she oversteps her capabilities. She is not a superstar, but she has proved she is a quality WNBA player.
On my prediction, well, Houston's shooting was making me sweat since she was my X-Factor, but in the end it played out the way we wanted it to play out.
I expect Sheryl to be back. It was a cramp, that is probably already in her past. Yo's status is something that worries me. I don't predict a win in Phoenix but without Yo, I fear a blowout. The Storm need her rebounding.
Little comes up BIG on the road.
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