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11 Jan 2025

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bit.lyValkyries’ Nakase calls Veronica Burton WNBA’s ‘best point guard right now.’ These Finals show whyThe story of how the Golden State Valkyries flipped the WNBA Finals from down 2-1 to up 3-2 and on the brink of a title begins with point guard Veronica Burton.

Many people have been saying this since last season and by many people I mean me and Natalie Nakase and we are right

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The story of how the Golden State Valkyries flipped the WNBA Finals from down 2-1 to up 3-2 and on the brink of a title begins with point guard Veronica Burton.

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polygon.comMarvel's Forgotten Mass Effect Clone Couldn't Escape the Avengers' FailureGuardians of the Galaxy was better than anyone expected

I loved this game but “mass effect clone”??? I guess the BioWare fallout is driving traffic bc this game had nothing to do with mass effect beyond like…it’s in space and there are characters you talk to on your ship and also give orders to in combat and ok fine maybe it’s kinda a mass effect clone

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Guardians of the Galaxy was better than anyone expected

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It’s only right for Cathy’s tenure to end in the most embarrassing way possible

Dana Holtzbert@danaholtzbert.bsky.social

Between now and Thursday, we have to deal with the possibility that a team that didn't exist 2 years ago may win the Championship in an arena that isn't anyone's usual home yet during Camp Day hours. How do we rationalize this? #WNBA

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The officiating tonight was fine. Keep The One Good Ref Tiara Cruse out of this.

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Dream coach Karl Smesko goes in on the officiating after Game 5.

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Their worst moment tonight was the missed foul that Smesko couldn’t challenge bc he had wasted it moments earlier, and that foul was much more evident on replay than at full speed. Angel didn’t get to the line much tonight bc she was playing tentatively and looked like she didn’t want the ball.

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Inevitably someone is gonna accuse me of hating on Angel even though I’ve also gushed about her when she’s deserved it throughout the series, but it’s just what happened. She looked like a player who was trying very hard not to get blocked by Kiah, even a couple times when Kiah was on the bench.

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The officiating tonight was fine. Keep The One Good Ref Tiara Cruse out of this.

Brian Hamilton@brianchamilton.bsky.social

Dream coach Karl Smesko goes in on the officiating after Game 5.

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The Valkyries go to the line a lot less frequently because they’re a team that takes a ton of jump shots, which inevitably has led to discourse about free throw differentials throughout the series, but I think the zebras have called it fairly. They’re never gonna be perfect, but they’ve been fine.

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Been wild watching various pockets of the TL see this for the first over the last few days as someone who watches Too Many Sports

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was that "liberals are the new racists, I'm afraid to show my face on camera because I'm white" commercial national? christ

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I think the first time I saw it was the Sixers opener? The CFB folks certainly all saw it at one point or another on Saturday. Don’t think it’s been on a WNBA finals game yet but I might well just have tuned it out looking at this app during the break.

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Eagles is a disgraaaaaace

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Got 600 pounds of defensive tackle in the middle of the line somehow managing not to take up space. Literally all you have to do most of the time is take up space!!

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Unfortunately it seems I do hate myself enough to watch the 4th quarter of what I can only imagine has been a terrible football game to this point

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I’ve seen enough. Atlanta will play for its playoff life at 12:30 Thursday afternoon.

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Sorry if I’m being petty about this, but I heard so much garbage about how the Liberty letting her keep shooting 3s was indicative of their dysfunction…only for the Valkyries to come to the exact same conclusion and for the law of averages to prove undefeated lol

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Sometimes, bad shooters get hot…that doesn’t mean you are supposed to start treating them like good shooters. That’s what you do when they stay hot for, like, a whole season, not 5 games.

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The Dream have 22 points off turnovers in the three Valkyries wins combined, averaging 7.3 per game They had at least 22 points off turnovers in both of their wins, averaging 5.8 per quarter

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I’ve seen enough. Atlanta will play for its playoff life at 12:30 Thursday afternoon.

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It did change in garbage time. The Dream finished with 6 points off turnovers thanks to Canada’s steal and 3-pointer once the game was extraordinarily over.

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She went 2-7 from deep, btw, which is essentially right on her career number. That 12-24 stretch in the first two rounds meant she had to be respected as a shooter according to most of the WNBA TV analysts lol

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The way Atlanta comes back from down 12 in 50 seconds is prayer. Or the Valkyries taking a dive. But mostly you just need an act of god. The game is over.

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I’ve seen enough. Atlanta will play for its playoff life at 12:30 Thursday afternoon.

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This might change in garbage time, but as of now, the Valkyries have allowed 19 points off turnovers in their 3 wins in the series, and at least 22 in each of their 2 losses.

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The One Good Ref Tiara Cruse having a solid night as usual. No one gives better or more detailed explanations either

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My experience as a concert goer tells me it is a very bad sign for the Dream that Smesko had to repeat “do we have a run in us” louder to get the response he wanted

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It is NEVER good when you get that second “how y’all feelin tonight.” The crowd is already lost my dude

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Kiah Stokes is the sixth player with three blocks and three 3-pointers in a #WNBA Finals game, joining Jonquel Jones (twice), Tangela Smith, Breanna Stewart and Diana Taurasi

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Kiah needs 3 rebounds to become the 5th player with multiple 3-pointers and multiple blocks in a Finals double-double, alongside Tamika Catchings, Natasha Howard, Jonquel Jones and Breanna Stewart (twice)

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The Dream still only have 3 points off turnovers btw

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That 3-pointer to give the Dream the lead also represented their first points off turnovers tonight. Largely a pretty good quarter for the Valks, but 6-0 Dream over the final 100 seconds and they come out of it with the lead.

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Maybe it’s 4 rebounds. I thought the her last was her 7th but the box score may have just been ahead of my TV lol

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Dream have got to find a way to speed this game up. Even if they can’t get into transition, they are not gonna do themselves any favors with these possessions going all the way to the end of the shot clock. The first look you get against the Valkyries is probably gonna be the best one.

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They talked about this after game 1 and did a really good job of it in game 2, and I think it was what eventually got the Valks sped up and largely led to the Dream’s 2 wins. They will not win this series playing Valkyrieball

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The last few minutes have gotten very choppy with the reviews, but I think the Dream have done a good job speeding things up since down 8 amidst all of that

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That’s a pretty clear foul. Shame Karl doesn’t have a challenge.

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Would be cool if we could’ve handled the challenge and the upgrade review at the same time, but alas

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Also Karl…you are very bad at challenges

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lol I’m so happy that it’s sold out, it’s also gonna be the lowest rated Finals game in god knows how long and every fan outside the building got screwed

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No one needs to tell me how good these teams are defensively, but the last 10 minutes of basketball sure do feel like a great argument for not playing 5 Finals games in a 10-day span. Both teams look like they’re running on fumes.

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Time is a flat fucking circle bsky.app/profile/andy...

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The Valkyries and Dream just became the first #WNBA teams in 10 years to score 25 or fewer points in the first half and go to the locker room tied or better. Last happened in June 2015 (Liberty led Mercury 25-23).

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Granted the Dream weren’t tied or better this time, but I knew I remembered a post about the Valks and Dream failing to beat 25 pts in a half lol

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But I was told Jordin Canada was an elite 3-point threat

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Almost like the 600-shot sample was in fact more meaningful than the 24-shot sample despite those being the last 24 shots at the time

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Maybe all the purple at Ballhalla makes it hard to see the rim

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He’s gotta start fining players for finger twirls. It’s an epidemic on this team lol

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Zendaya showed up? Dream are fucked

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Kiah being the Valkyrie with the nonsense-free handshake with Kaitlyn is the most on-brand thing ever

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Absolutely no fun will be had within arm’s length of Kiah’s lane, this has been known since the Libs days

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Give her Sirianni’s job and see how fast that shit gets turned around

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"Go birds. Go birds. All day, every day, go birds" Dawn Staley

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I’m not even really a Sirianni hater but there might not be a coach on the planet in whom my faith is as blind as it is in Dawn

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14h

I keep literally forgetting there’s an Eagles-Cowboys game tonight. Maybe I remember and put it on a second screen once Game 5 starts but I doubt it crosses my mind