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Minnyme -> RE: Minnesota Lynx (9/21/2017 12:21:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TJSweens
Regardless of what Beard was able to accomplish in the regular season, I expect Maya to be a big game player. I believe she and Fowles will at least negate Parker and Ogwumike ... .
It will be Brunson who will spend the majority of the time hounding Parker. Brunson deals with her better then anyone else in the league. Parkers going to get some, because she's that good but Brunson will spend the series looking to get under Parkers skin.
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ORIGINAL: TJSweensI think the Whalen / Augustus back court is the key. I kind of look at them like the late career Parker / Ginobli tandem. The back court is the one place where the Sparks have a youth advantage, but Lindsey and Simone have the experience and have been together for years now. They just execute without thinking about it. The other X factor will be how much more Parker gets away with vs the other stars. Still say she is one of the dirtiest players and gets with it non stop.
There really are so many “keys” in this series that people could point to.
With Reeve and Agler, it’ll be a chess match from the bench.
LA does have the younger, a bit quicker and shorter backcourt in Sims & Grey then they have E. Carson & Syd Weisse (sp) the big 3pt specialist that Agler might let play when he wants to try hurting us w/3pt shooting . Whalen, Augustus (Montgomery, Perkins) are no pushovers. So key to me will be keeping the turnovers down.
Defensive player of the year Alena Beard (same draft class as Whalen & Brunson) & Maya match up at SF will be a battle. My hope is Maya doesn’t try to rush the scoring, maybe play a little gm w/Beard & use her aggressive style against her & get her into foul trouble a gm or two; find other ways to be productive till she has a feel for where she can get shots. I want to see Maya be smart yet aggressive early.
In the post you have Parker & Ogwumike (J. Lavander) vs. All-defensive team members Brunson & MVP Fowles (along w/P. Pierson & N. Howard) With Pierson retiring at the end of the season we’ll get all she’s got left, so hoping she saved the best of it for last :lol: and gotta have quality mins from Howard otherwise Reeve is likely to forget she’s on the bench.
Now, occasionally LA will play the "BIG" line up w/Lavander in moving CP to guard the SF/Maya, Beard slides to the 2 spot (PG doesn't matter) and that's when I think our post should really go to town, Lavander can't guard aggressive Syl or Brunson & CP can't come down & help if she's trying to stick w/Maya.
This is just a REALLY interesting series with a ton of talent on the floor. [sm=boxing.gif]
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