Great to hear, and fingers crossed. When both were available, Karlie got substantially more playing time than Wiese, and seems to have acquitted herself far better from a stats line standpoint. That she also got the inbounds ball for the buzzer-beating winner in their season opener at Minnesota also suggests the coach trusted her ball handling and instincts to substitute her in for that play. I'm cautiously optimistic.
In other WNBA alumnae news, Bird had a couple of starts for Indiana but didn't seem to perform very well based on the boxed score. She was then replaced with Victoria Vivians, who has been lighting things up and I suspect will remain a starter. It's a shame Bird wasn't able to rise to the occasion when she had a couple of chances to get solid starting minutes, but she did go 3/6 for 9 points in 18 minutes in their rout of Atlanta this weekend, and the Fever don't have one of the better starting 5 in the WNBA, so hopefully she can settle into a pretty reliable 6th or 7th woman off the bench for large chunks of minutes.
In other WNBA alumnae news, Bird had a couple of starts for Indiana but didn't seem to perform very well based on the boxed score. She was then replaced with Victoria Vivians, who has been lighting things up and I suspect will remain a starter. It's a shame Bird wasn't able to rise to the occasion when she had a couple of chances to get solid starting minutes, but she did go 3/6 for 9 points in 18 minutes in their rout of Atlanta this weekend, and the Fever don't have one of the better starting 5 in the WNBA, so hopefully she can settle into a pretty reliable 6th or 7th woman off the bench for large chunks of minutes.