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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) | 10/28/2009
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) | 10/25/2009
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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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
p>PHOENIX(AP) The core of the dynamic Phoenix Mercury is a trio as talented as any in the game.<p>No wonder they win WNBA championships.<p>Diana Taurasi, Cappie Pondexter and Penny Taylor - who led the team to its 2007 title - did it again in 2009, when the Mercury held off a late rally by the tenacious Indiana Fever for a 94-86 victory in the deciding Game 5 Friday night.<p>League...
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home (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Phoenix beat Indiana 94-86 to win the WNBA title. This is the second championship for the Mercury. Diana Taurasi , the Finals MVP, had 26 points for the Mercury. Tammy Sutton-Brown had 22 points for the Fever. Here are video highlights from the game and then post game highlights . Of course you can go shopping for memorabilia .
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hoopfeed.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
For the second time in three seasons, the Phoenix Mercury won the WNBA title. Led by Diana Taurasi, the Mercury beat the Indiana Fever 94-86. Taurasi, the Finals and league MVP scored 26 points. Teammate Cappie Pondexter had 24. The Fever, playing their first ever Finals, were lead by Tammy Sutton-Brown. She scored 22 points. Jessica Davenport added a career-high 18 and Tamika Catchings had 16 points...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
The Indiana Fever shot stunningly well: almost 56% from the field. Ebony Hoffman, the post with the fine three-point shot, hit a new career high. Her team took a big lead early on, making the Mercury's defense look nonexistent; the Fever rang up 105 points in regulation, 116 in OT. And yet Phoenix won. The combination of close competition, with lead change after lead change; individual skills and dramatic...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Phoenix, AZ, September 28, 2009 -- The Indiana Fever arrived at US Airways Center this afternoon for the first practice of their first appearance in the WNBA Finals, which gets underway Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET. <p> But not everyone walking into the gym today was in unfamiliar territory. While this is the first time the Fever franchise has advanced to the championship round, a number of Fever...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
For most of the season it seemed like a forgone conclusion that the Indiana Fever and Phoenix Mercury would face off in the 2009 WNBA Finals. After dropping its first two games of the season, Indiana, behind the MVP-caliber play of stars Katie Douglas and Tamika Catchings, ran off a franchise-record 11-game winning streak to take control of the East and from there its status as "team to beat"...
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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) | 09/30/2009
In the third quarter of Game 1 of the 2009 WNBA Finals, the Phoenix Mercury found themselves facing a few problems. <p> For one thing, the Indiana Fever, who were supposed to win games with their defense, were absolutely on fire on the offensive end. Indiana started the frame by hitting six of its first seven shots, a run that included back-to-back treys by Ebony Hoffman and Katie Douglas and...
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Indy Star (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Can a girly girl battle with the bad girls? The Indiana Fever say she can. How stylish and demure Tammy Sutton-Brown plays against the Detroit Shock's post players will help determine the outcome of the Eastern Conference finals.
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Update: <p>INDIANAPOLIS(AP) The Indiana Fever have found a winning combination - Tamika Catchings' dominating offense and Tully Bevilaqua&#39;s scrappy play.<p>The two led the Fever to a 81-74 overtime victory over the Washington Mystics on Saturday night to sweep their best-of-three Eastern Conference semifinal series.<p>Catchings had 24 points, 16 rebounds, five assists,...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
It took overtime, but the Fever prevailed and will now meet the Shock in the Conference Finals. Down 9 in the fourth, home court (9,655 in the seats) was key for Indy. "I thought every time we started to make a rally, the crowd really got behind us," Fever coach Lin Dunn said. Tully (see, I told you the Lib need an Aussie) had a great extra period to make sure Catchings effort (24pt, 16reb,...
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