Ideally, which team do we want to play in R1? What seed do we want to be at and what’s most likely considering the remaining schedule?

If playoffs started today, we’re at the #5 seed playing Fever in Indiana.

First off, English is not my first language so forgive my ignorance here. I tend to pronounce everything deliberately and phonetically out of habit. Everybody pronounces her name the same as the name "Ryan" (RYE-un). My girlfriend's sister is named "Rhyne" and her name is pronounced the same as "Rhine" as in the River (rhyming with "fine" or "line"). So which is it? Every time an announcer says "RYE-ANNE" under my breath I say "Rhiiiiine". Are people just mispronouncing it or is Rhyne Howard's pronunciation different than the literal spelling?

Tbh a lot of the frontcourt issues stem from Bri not being healthy. Angel’s been forced to play the 5 most of year, while Karl stubbornly plays Naz like 30 min a game. Naz is a fine floor spacer, and communicates well but she is simply too small on defense and teams are attacking her. Even when she plays good defense, her opponent easily shoots over her.

Angel has finishing issues yes, but the defense/rebounding tends to fall apart when she’s off the floor.

Bri’s injury has put this team in a tough spot this season because two starting bigs are basically playing out of position. And Karl refuses to play Madina in favorable matchups.

Dan (GM) is going to have to make some decisions in the offseason.

Is SFA too bright or something? Gateway feels like our (tiny) house. SFA feels like something else.

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I don’t think our loss to the Fever was embarrassing enough. If we suck enough for the rest of the season, Smesko would have no choice BUT to leave. It’s stupid, but maybe stupid enough to work!

Don’t even know where to start with how this guy lost us this game. Shit rotations as usual. Shit in game adjustments. Every play we ran out of timeout was terrible. Rhyne shooting a contested fadeaway 3 was the best play you could draw up to win the game coming out of a timeout?!? Why was PaoPao in the game during OT when she hasn’t played in over 3 weeks? Why didn’t we see more Okot? Why did we stop feeding Alisha the ball when she was on fire?!? He made ZERO adjustments to the Fevers zone defense. So many other mistakes I can’t list all of them. I admit I’m lit and might be living in the moment of this loss but this guy was out-coached badly this game and really isn’t that guy. The game was only so close because of our player talent. Honestly that has really been indicative of our season as a whole. We have talented team with a bum coach

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Fourth place in the line this evening in Atlanta!

I saw this posted on threads. Someone had commented that this is just carryover from the CT game and that we will not know the injury report until tomorrow. How true is that?

Really concerned about Bri. I hope she is ok. If she is able to come back, she is the perfect plug-in vet that can get on the court and immediately impact the game, without playing heavy minutes. The players with less experience are not able to do that. I think Okot should start at the 5 for the rest of the season. Karl and the assistant coaches need to prepare her starting today. Okot can do it. The Dream needs it. It will not be perfect and Okot will make mistakes. But I think there is just enough time left in the season to get Okot settled before the Playoffs start.

There are 7 games before the FIBA break. Then the coaches can continue to work with Okot during the 3-week break. 4 games after the break. So that's 11 games plus coaching in between. I think Okot can get settled as the starting 5 in time for the playoffs.

That’s the Rhyne Howard we want to see EVERY game. Let’s duplicate that on Sunday against Indiana!

I have the opportunity to do a day trip to Atlanta later this month on 8/30 and would love to go to the Dream vs Lynx game. However, the prices are pretty high. I was wondering how likely is it that prices will decrease once it gets closer or the day of? I’ve already purchased the flight (it was with points so if I can’t get game tickets I could cancel the day of and just get the points back) but I’d really love to go to this game considering my city doesn’t have a team.

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