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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Last year, I did a few posts regarding similarity scores . From the earlier post: Similarity Scores was designed to be a fair way to compare players by their career statistical lines. The idea is "start with 1000" points and then begin to take away points from points of difference. For example, if two players had career steals totals that were 20 steals apart, we would take one point away...
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Ivory Latta,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Jennifer Lacy,
Michelle Snow,
Sancho Lyttle,
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Update: <p>INDIANAPOLIS(AP) Tamika Catchings went down after being fouled hard in the third quarter, and her teammates and more than 9,000 Indiana Fever fans waited in stunned silence to see if she'd recover.<p>Two years ago, the Fever were in the decisive Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals - also against the Detroit Shock - when Catchings went down with a torn right Achilles'...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Update: <p>INDIANAPOLIS(AP) The Indiana Fever advanced to the WNBA finals for the first time, beating the defending champion Detroit Shock 72-67 on Saturday night in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals.<p>The Fever, who were eliminated by the Shock the last three seasons, open the finals on Tuesday against Phoenix.<p>Tammy Sutton-Brown led the Fever with 17 points. Katie Douglas...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Update: <p>AUBURN HILLS, Mich.(AP) The Atlanta Dream had a chance to win their first playoff game and put the defending WNBA champions on the ropes.<p>They didn't take it.<p>Deanna Nolan scored 25 points and Kara Braxton added 16 as the Detroit Shock rallied for a 94-89 victory over the Dream in the opener of their Eastern Conference first-round series.<p>"This...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Update: <p>DULUTH, Ga.(AP) Detroit coach Rick Mahorn knew leading scorer Deanna Nolan was going to come back strong after sustaining a concussion in the Shock's last game.<p>"She's tough,'' Mahorn said. "She got knocked pretty hard last game and took a good shot in this one as well. But she's very tough and wanted to get this game so...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Who : The Atlanta Dream (18-16) take on the Detroit Shock (18-16) in a playoff game. The Dream have a cast including Angel McCoughtry (12.8 ppg) and Sancho Lyttle (13.0 ppg, 7.5 prg). Iziane Castro Marques (14.4 ppg) leads the team in scoring. Deanna Nolan is back (16.9 ppg) for the Mystics and rookie Shavonte Zellous (11.9 ppg) helps an injury-riddled Shock team. What : The first of a best-of-three...
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Katie Smith,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
Shavonte Zellous,
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Detroit Shock guard Alexis Hornbuckle, who missed the regular-season finale at Chicago with a hamstring injury, is 90% certain to play in Game 1 of the team's first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Dream.
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Bright Side Of The Sun (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The Mercury lost another game to a sub .500 team last night in Detroit who were without their best player, Katie Smith. Once again the team started slow and once again Coach Gaines used a variety of line ups which might have contributed to an horrendous 19 turnovers and some equally bad defensive rotations. Coach Gaines might be thinking about getting ready for the playoffs and giving his stars some...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
In the latest installment of our weekly Who's Hot and Who's Not report, we look at the past week of games to see which players are at the top of their game and which players have hit a rough patch and need to turn things around. WHO'S HOT Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury; Cappie Pondexter, Phoenix Mercury; Sophia Young, San Antonio Silver Stars; Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm; Alana Beard, Washington...
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Seattle Storm,
Shannon Johnson,
Sophia Young,
Tan White,
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
What happened: Katie Smith scored a team-high 17 points, 13 of which came in the third quarter, to help the defending champion Shock preserve its playoff hopes. Deanna Nolan, Alexis Hornbuckle and rookie Shavonte Zellous added 10 apiece.
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