I agree with the thoughts in a previous thread that the Ms seemed to have decided (as I had hoped) to take out a can of whoop### on the first team to show up and play at ARCO since that forgettable game last week.
I saw some fans working Mrs. Whisenant cross court from me when she came out and took her seat, so I hope they made a difference....
Whatever got into Ticha tonight, I hope to hell it stays. I agreed with Coach T, that's the best offensive performance I'd seen from her in a LONG time. (Did I say "Ticha" and "offensive performance" and "best" in the same sentence????) She was brillant. That baseline spin move she put on Gortman (and as Koz said on air, "left her standing there with her jog bra on the ground") alone would have been enough to qualify her game as brilliant but she was on the verge of going completely unrecognizingly out of character in that first half. I hope she decides to keep that persona for another 30 some odd games.
Nice to see what this team looked like when they're in sync again. Brunson, gosh - she is intent on getting into the Whisenant dog house early. She blew two defensive assignments again. The 2nd time I saw Whiz give her that "I didn't yell at you the first time you missed rotating, but NOW I'm mad" look. I mumbled...."ooooh B I think you're about to get yanked reaaaaaaaaaaal soon" and I saw Whiz motion for Maiga-Ba and I mumbled "like, as soon as Maiga can get her warmup off" But her vertical continues to be ridiculous. I just hope she can get her focus back and start playing complete games - she did a nice job on Jackson tonight despite not always making her proper help rotation and leaving somebody open for a layup. But her offense was nearly non existent until garbage time. Buescher is still pulling shots out of her proverbial... nice game all around. They get Lawson going? And if Kim Smith remembers how to score?
I was worried about the start of this game because not only was Jamie Coffey weird tonight with the intros - I mean seriously, what copy could she have possibly gotten that still had Simone Edwards on the roster?!? Maybe it was a ploy because that might have thrown Seattle off, because every single one of them whipped their head around with a "wha????" look on their face when Edwards' name and number were called. Then the production guys could not get the player photos up for the Monarchs intro. Maybe they should do that every game. I also think the good vibe from having the old Monty costume back continues to make the difference. That badly dry cleaned version that they started the season with was scary looking - made Monty look like he'd aged 50 years.
To those of you who picked up the STH gift bags tonight, from what I saw it looked like they went all out with a whole buncha stuff. I forgot to get mine tonight - but I thought I saw folks with replica championship banners???? I was just hoping for a media guide.
I also missed what happened with Jackson and Maiga to get Maiga caught with a T and walking away rubbing her jaw.
I saw some fans working Mrs. Whisenant cross court from me when she came out and took her seat, so I hope they made a difference....
Whatever got into Ticha tonight, I hope to hell it stays. I agreed with Coach T, that's the best offensive performance I'd seen from her in a LONG time. (Did I say "Ticha" and "offensive performance" and "best" in the same sentence????) She was brillant. That baseline spin move she put on Gortman (and as Koz said on air, "left her standing there with her jog bra on the ground") alone would have been enough to qualify her game as brilliant but she was on the verge of going completely unrecognizingly out of character in that first half. I hope she decides to keep that persona for another 30 some odd games.
Nice to see what this team looked like when they're in sync again. Brunson, gosh - she is intent on getting into the Whisenant dog house early. She blew two defensive assignments again. The 2nd time I saw Whiz give her that "I didn't yell at you the first time you missed rotating, but NOW I'm mad" look. I mumbled...."ooooh B I think you're about to get yanked reaaaaaaaaaaal soon" and I saw Whiz motion for Maiga-Ba and I mumbled "like, as soon as Maiga can get her warmup off" But her vertical continues to be ridiculous. I just hope she can get her focus back and start playing complete games - she did a nice job on Jackson tonight despite not always making her proper help rotation and leaving somebody open for a layup. But her offense was nearly non existent until garbage time. Buescher is still pulling shots out of her proverbial... nice game all around. They get Lawson going? And if Kim Smith remembers how to score?
I was worried about the start of this game because not only was Jamie Coffey weird tonight with the intros - I mean seriously, what copy could she have possibly gotten that still had Simone Edwards on the roster?!? Maybe it was a ploy because that might have thrown Seattle off, because every single one of them whipped their head around with a "wha????" look on their face when Edwards' name and number were called. Then the production guys could not get the player photos up for the Monarchs intro. Maybe they should do that every game. I also think the good vibe from having the old Monty costume back continues to make the difference. That badly dry cleaned version that they started the season with was scary looking - made Monty look like he'd aged 50 years.
To those of you who picked up the STH gift bags tonight, from what I saw it looked like they went all out with a whole buncha stuff. I forgot to get mine tonight - but I thought I saw folks with replica championship banners???? I was just hoping for a media guide.
I also missed what happened with Jackson and Maiga to get Maiga caught with a T and walking away rubbing her jaw.
