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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Left to right: Atlanta City Council President Lisa Boarders, new Dream owner Kathy Betty, WNBA President Donna Orender, Atlanta Dream Head Coach Marynell Meadors and Dream player Jennifer Lacy. We now have the word that we've been waiting for. No, not word about the infamous Surfin' Bird, but word that the Atlanta Dream has safely landed in the arms of a new managing partner, Kathy Betty. However,...
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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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Coco Miller,
Ivory Latta,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Michelle Snow,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
Tamera Young,
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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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Angel McCoughtry,
Armintie Price,
Camille Little,
Chamique Holdsclaw,
Charde Houston,
Coco Miller,
Crystal Langhorne,
Elaine Powell,
Erin Phillips,
Francesca Zara,
Ivory Latta,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Michelle Snow,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
Shyra Ely,
Stacey Dales,
Swin Cash,
Tammy Sutton-Brown,
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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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Armintie Price,
Chamique Holdsclaw,
Coco Miller,
Ivory Latta,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Michelle Snow,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Old meets new. It's odd that I've been to about 20 or so Atlanta Dream home games - probably more - but have never been to a major college basketball game. I'm not going to put down Georgia Tech and the fine work they do - I see a lot of Tech games - but they can't fill the rafters at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, and that's a shame. Atlanta has a great women's team of its own and it's just being ignored....
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Man, that was the biggest crowd of the year. I suspect that half of the people there were either: a) Tennessee fans, b) Sparks fans, or c) Both. Great game. It was like watching the playoffs, but the bad part was that we lost. I think it was the best game I've seen all year. That was how basketball should be played. More later, obviously. UPDATE : Here's the link to the AJC story . Be sure you take...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Sue over at the They're Playing Basketball blog asked me why Atlanta Dream is in second place after being in seventh place last year. If I were to ask Bob Corwin, he'd probably roll his eyes and say, "Well, Pet, they have better players than they did in 2008." However, I think Sue F. is asking a more subtle question - "why is this group of players so good"? Indeed, if you look at...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Here's what we know about our Dream players off-season. Erika de Souza is returning to Ros Casares in Spain where she'll be playing in both the Spanish League and the Euroleague. (Euroleague and Eurocup are "superleagues" involving teams from multiple countries.) She played for El Ros last year as well. Sancho Lyttle is moving to Perfumerias in Spain. She'll also be playing in both the Spanish...
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Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Michelle Snow,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The Ventura Country Star Writes a profile on Jennifer Lacy : Lacy led the West Coast Conference in scoring during her senior year and led Pepperdine in rebounding. But statistics don’t define her role with the Dream. “I am a vocal leader and I think I inspire my teammates in the way I play and the way I come to practice every day,” said Lacy, who is averaging 3.3 points and 2.0 rebounds....
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Swanny's Stats has the statistics regarding offensive fouls in the WNBA for the 2009 season up to August 2, 2009. The leader in offensive fouls committed is Nakia Sanford of the Mystics, with 14 such fouls. Thank goodness no one on the Atlanta Dream is on the short list. As for most minutes played without drawing an offensive foul, Lindsay Whalen of the Sun is at the top with 553 minutes.... ...but...
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Chamique Holdsclaw,
Coco Miller,
DeMya Walker,
Ivory Latta,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Lindsay Whalen,
Nakia Sanford,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Who wants it more? Before I begin the write-up on the Dream-Liberty game, I want to go back in time to the Dream-Fever game a few days ago. For awards in that game, I'd have to have given the Dreamer of the Game to Erika de Souza , and furthermore, I'd have to say that de Souza's performance was the best performance by a Dream player so far in 2009. Try to argue against it. 23 points. 14 rebounds,...
Explore : Cathrine Kraayeveld,
Chamique Holdsclaw,
Coco Miller,
Essence Carson,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Janel McCarville,
Loree Moore,
Sancho Lyttle,
Shalee Lehning,
Shameka Christon,
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
Chamique Holdsclaw is 12th in field goals blocked so far this year with 12 blocked. The most blocked? Sophia Young of San Antonio with 19 field goals blocked. Jennifer Lacy is 8th in percentage of field goals blocked (minimum 40 attempts). 12.1 percent of her field goal attempts are rejected. The leader is Chante Black of Connecticut with 22.0 percent of her shots blocked, over 1 in 5. There are five...
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Brooke Wyckoff,
Chamique Holdsclaw,
Chante Black,
Edwige Lawson-Wade,
Erin Thorn,
Iziane Castro Marques,
Iziane Castro-Marques,
Janel McCarville,
Kelly Mazzante,
Kiesha Brown,
Kristi Harrower,
Lauren Jackson,
Michelle Snow,
Sancho Lyttle,
Sophia Young,
Sue Bird,
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
It was a great game at Philips Arena with a lot of great entertainment. And now, it's time to pass out the kudos and okays: For the Shock: Katie Smith : 20 points, and 5-for-6 from 3-point range. Taj McWilliams : 13 pointss, 9 rebounds. Cheryl Ford : 11 points, 8 rebounds. However, she fouled out of the game. Shavonte Zellous : 25 points. 17-19 from the free throw line, but 4-for-11 otherwise. Deanna...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Tomorrow's Dream-Shock game is previewed at CBSSports.com . First, a comment from CBSSports.com regaring a "controversial" decision from Marynell Meadors: The Shock look to snap a three-game losing streak Friday night when they face a Dream club that dropped its last contest amid a controversial coaching decision. ... Meadors opted to go with reserves Jennifer Lacy and Tamera Young rather...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Two hands, Angel! Two hands! Okay. We finally have some pictures of this game by the great Craig Cappy. Go to the gallery at SPMSportsPage.com and see what I'm talking about. I decided to look at how well the Dream has been doing during the season in two stats: the Dream's field goal shooting percentage, and opponent 3-point shots made. G1: Win vs. Indiana, 39.7 percent, 9-for-20 (*) G2: Loss vs. Washington,...
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