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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
For the first time in a long time, Ivory Latta got to say hello to her old Atlanta Dream teammate Tamera Young . (As well as 2008 teammate Kasha Terry .) This time, they would be on the opposite sides of the battle, with each team hoping to get over .500. Latta was the number one scorer for Mersin (2-1) and Young tied for the top scorer for Kayseri (1-2), but it looks like Mersin squeaked by with the...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
It just seems to go back and forth between Fenerbahce (2-0), the winner of last year's TBBL championship, and Mersin (1-1), the runner up last year and winner of the President's Cup game against Fenerbahce this year. This time, the defending champions managed to hold off Mersin, winning 71-61 at home. The box score is here . A write-up of the game is here . Fenerbahce scored the first few points, but...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
On Swish Appeal , I've gone ahead and posted the WNBA's player efficiency ratings for 2009. If you're interested, here's how the various players of the Atlanta Dream did in PER: Angel McCoughtry (23.2) Sancho Lyttle (21.3) Erika de Souza (20,0) Chamique Holdsclaw (14.8) Michelle Snow (14.6) Ivory Latta (13.5) Tamera Young (12.1) Coco Miller (10.4) Iziane Castro Marques (9.8) Shalee Lehning (8.7) Jennifer...
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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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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There are some pictures up of the Mersin-Kokaeli game at the TBBL website , but the only picture with Ivory Latta is the one above. However, if you're a fan of Olympia Taylor, Barbara Turner or Erlana Larkins you might find some pics.
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Mersin (1-0) - the new team for Ivory Latta - is hoping to return to the TBBL finals this year. Kocaeli (0-1) was promoted from TBBL2 to the big leagues last year and is just hoping to stay alive. (One problem for Kocaeli - no WNBA players on the roster.) Mersin had no problem with getting their first win at home, 78-58. The box score is here . No pictures just yet. It looked like this game was going...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Ivory Latta greets her new teammates. It looks like I'm a little bit late on reporting on the President's Cup in the TBBL - the Turkish Women's Basketball League. It looks like the Turkish season gets started with the President's Cup, and Mersin - which was swept 3-0 in the TBBL championship last year - gained some measure of revenge with an 86-74 win over defending champion Fenerbahce. Finding a box...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Through following Ivory Latta's Twitter messages, I've figured out that she's playing in Turkey, and now I know where. She'll be playing for Mersin. The link (in Turkish) is here . Last year, she played with Ceyhan in Turkey, and transferred to Israel - a transfer which was probably a straight buy-out of Latta's contract, as Maccabi Rabat Hen needed help. Turkey's season starts on October 24. An update...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
There was this game , see.... But some of us were teaching all day Sunday so we haven't got a chance to view the tape. And some of us intended to blog, but the site was down and the window of opportunity was lost.... Anyhoo - enough with the excuses: Justine Larbalestier was pumped for the game. Someone else "discovered" the game: WNBA Finals proves to be just as exciting as NBA (focus on...
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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) | 09/20/2009
Ivory Latta has an upcoming birthday on September 24th. (She will be 25 years old). The poster from the Atlanta Dream Message Board known as nextivorylatta wants to make a group card for Ivory. Anyway, if you'd like to sign the card, here is the link . I signed it! The link will tell you what to do. What happens to the card after its signed? That's a mystery only nextivorylatta knows....
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
"All right, who is to blame?" I'm going to try to rush through this without much thought. I just want to wrap the season up as quickly as I can and not feel compelled to write very much about it. You gotta keep your head up, look straight ahead, and move on. 1) Sound carries very well in The Arena at Gwinnett Center. I got a chance to see Ivory Latta practicing, and as she heaved up 3-point...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Sekou Smith of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes from Dream practice before Game Two tonight. Quoting Ivory Latta: “But we are so pumped up because we know when we come back here and have our fans behind us we can accomplish anything. They’ve truly been our sixth man this year, and we’re going to be focused and have a lot of energy. I promise you we’re going to come out...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Marynell Meadors, Iziane Castro Marques: Meet the Press. We only write about this one because we are compelled to. On the other hand, I have HDTV so it was almost as good as having a seat at courtside. If you want the photos, here they are from Lynn Gregg of SportsPageMagazine.com. I would burn these photos, myself, just to put the awful memories behind me. 1) HDTV is definitely not flattering: you...
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