Tuesday, July 3, 2012

There's always more.......

1. Despite Mercury forward DeWanna Bonner's 38 (freakin) points, the Silver Stars beat Phoenix tonight, 82-81.

2. Ya gotta love a stats geek - in this case, Kevin Pelton of the Seattle Storm, who has offensive/defensive ratings and schedule ratings:

OFFENSIVE/DEFENSIVE RATINGS

Team ORtg Team ORtg
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Minnesota 111.8 Atlanta 93.5
San Antonio 106.6 Minnesota 94.2
Connecticut 104.8 Indiana 97.0
Indiana 104.7 Chicago 97.1
Los Angeles 102.5 Seattle 98.8
Chicago 98.7 Connecticut 98.9
Tulsa 97.4 San Antonio 99.6
Atlanta 97.2 Los Angeles 100.8
Phoenix 95.7 New York 104.7
Seattle 95.7 Washington 105.5
Washington 94.9 Tulsa 106.3
New York 93.1 Phoenix 107.6

SCHEDULE-ADJUSTED RATINGS

Team Rtg SOS Rk
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Minnesota 10.5 -2.1 12
Indiana 6.3 0.3 5
San Antonio 6.2 0.7 4
Connecticut 3.4 -0.8 8
Atlanta 2.0 -0.9 9
Chicago 1.0 -0.1 6
Los Angeles 0.0 -0.4 7
Seattle -0.2 2.1 2
New York -6.1 2.7 1
Tulsa -6.8 -1.0 10
Washington -7.7 -1.2 11
Phoenix -8.7 1.1 3

3. Her omission from the Russian National Team still stings for the Storm's Svetlana Abrosimova.

4. All those Mystics tweets last night? Natasha Lacy's bachelorette party.

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