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RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Leftcoast - 09-24-2026
Thanks for the Haley Jones info, Mudhead. Glad she got picked up and is contributing to a playoff contending team.
Last I heard she had been selected by Portland (from Dallas) in the expansion draft and later released. Looks like she went back to Dallas.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Nobadeer - 09-29-2026
Fever tied up their first round series with Vegas, 99-89. Hull as usual started, and ended up playing 24 minutes, 4 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl.
She started nearly every regular season game but played her fewest minutes since her rookie season and scored in double figures just 6 times, with over 100 fewer field goal attempts, including a third fewer shots from three point range. None of that is likely to change in the playoffs no matter how far the Fever advance?
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - BillBradley - 09-30-2026
(09-29-2026, 11:11 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: Fever tied up their first round series with Vegas, 99-89. Hull as usual started, and ended up playing 24 minutes, 4 pts, 7 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl.Lexie was sooo good last night. Chelsea Gray had 8 points in the first quarter. They put Lexie on her and she finished with 10 for the game. Her defensive tenacity changed the game. I like what the Fever coach is doing in this series. They are playing small ball and really upping the defensive intensity with ball denial and doubling. Fun series.
She started nearly every regular season game but played her fewest minutes since her rookie season and scored in double figures just 6 times, with over 100 fewer field goal attempts, including a third fewer shots from three point range. None of that is likely to change in the playoffs no matter how far the Fever advance?
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Hieronymus - 09-30-2026
Lexie’s situation has been weird since the all star break. She definitely was pushing harder on offense with some success, but minutes kept decreasing. If sitting back and trying to push both don’t work you are kinda stuck. Then the end-of-the-year rotations went weird. Maybe though the game 2 result stabilizes things for her. And maybe White gets fired and she gets a clean slate.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Nobadeer - 09-30-2026
Iriafen had another double-double (15 pts 16 reb) but the Mystics' season ended with a loss to Atlanta.
Valks couldn't guard Ogunbowale. Game 3 at Chase Ctr/"Ballhalla" on Friday.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - biketoc - 10-01-2026
(09-30-2026, 10:19 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: Iriafen had another double-double (15 pts 16 reb) but the Mystics' season ended with a loss to Atlanta.
Valks couldn't guard Ogunbowale. Game 3 at Chase Ctr/"Ballhalla" on Friday.
Heck, I don't know if anyone could have guarded Ogunbowale last night! The three to tie the game was impressive. The slop shot that she threw up for three in overtime was the dagger.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Nobadeer - 10-01-2026
To BillBradley's point, Hull was very good again on defense tonight in very limited minutes in the Fever's loss to LV. The refs called 27 fouls on the Fever - incl. 4 on Hull in only 13 minutes - and just 19 fouls called on LV in what looked like an evenly matched brawl with almost as much physicality as in the NFL game tonight.
LV scored 14 more points on FTs, and won by 11. And to Hierm. point, the Fever coach had Hull and Cunningham on the bench for the 4th quarter. Strange lineup choices by the coach. Hull still had 2 fouls to give, and Gray went on to score 11 points in the 4th quarter. So the Fever are eliminated.
Let's go Valks, beat Dallas!
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - rogpodge - 10-02-2026
https://x.com/BrickCenter_/status/2105836800715763767
Tough to play defense under these conditions.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Treebound - 10-02-2026
Wow - That's ridiculous! That ref needs to be disciplined by the league. You can see Turner use leverage on her arm in two spots to hook Lexi.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - BillBradley - 10-02-2026
(10-01-2026, 09:39 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: To BillBradley's point, Hull was very good again on defense tonight in very limited minutes in the Fever's loss to LV. The refs called 27 fouls on the Fever - incl. 4 on Hull in only 13 minutes - and just 19 fouls called on LV in what looked like an evenly matched brawl with almost as much physicality as in the NFL game tonight.Some stats to consider for the Fever guards...Across all 3 games vs. the Aces:
LV scored 14 more points on FTs, and won by 11. And to Hierm. point, the Fever coach had Hull and Cunningham on the bench for the 4th quarter. Strange lineup choices by the coach. Hull still had 2 fouls to give, and Gray went on to score 11 points in the 4th quarter. So the Fever are eliminated.
- Caitlin Clark scored 60 points. She played 104 minutes. During her time on the court, the Aces outscored the Fever by 17 points.
- Kelsey Mitchell scored 61 points. She played 100 minutes. During her time on the court, the Aces outscored the Fever by 22 points.
- Sophie Cunningham scored 17 points. She played 76 minutes. During her time on the court, the Aces outscored the Fever by 39 points.
- Lexie Hull scored only 9 points. She played 57 minutes. During her time on the court, the Fever outscored the Aces by 6 points.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - old spanish trail - 10-02-2026
(10-02-2026, 01:22 PM)Treebound Wrote: Wow - That's ridiculous! That ref needs to be disciplined by the league. You can see Turner use leverage on her arm in two spots to hook Lexi.
Yeesh
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Nobadeer - 10-02-2026
Hull was the Fever player that was wearing an active mic during the game for the telecast. She was quite "vocal" after the throw-down non-foul.
To my nonexpert eye, the WNBA refs are maybe the worst of all US pro leagues. They just don't see things that appear quite obvious on tv - for example, the Hull throw-down - and when the coaches invoke the replay requests, the refs then take forever to look at the video and make up their minds. The telecast cuts to commercial break and even after that, the refs are still pondering.
RE: Stanford WNBA 2026 - Hieronymus - 10-02-2026
(10-02-2026, 03:21 PM)Nobadeer Wrote: Hull was the Fever player that was wearing an active mic during the game for the telecast. She was quite "vocal" after the throw-down non-foul.
To my nonexpert eye, the WNBA refs are maybe the worst of all US pro leagues. They just don't see things that appear quite obvious on tv - for example, the Hull throw-down - and when the coaches invoke the replay requests, the refs then take forever to look at the video and make up their minds. The telecast cuts to commercial break and even after that, the refs are still pondering.
Truthfully WNBA officiating is so bad it makes replay pointless. They will spend 5 minutes on an obvious replay and still get it wrong. All it does is slow down the game.
And unfortunately, the Fever are very vulnerable to the officials. They aren’t that big and they need to run. A wrestling match like game 3 and they are doomed. Of course the biased officiating doesn’t help either.
Even deeper though the whole league looks incompetent much of the time. Say for example inventing a player safety lane from thin air. It will be interesting to see if a new commissioner is allowed to do better.