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Eric's avatar

Last night was awful. Indiana is clearly a much better team than in years past, and has three All-Star worthy players, but last night felt like a complete whiff on a winnable game. It was several steps backward and maybe the most disappointing Storm loss of the season. Out-rebounded, out-muscled, and out-shot - a bad combination.

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[DEEP BREATH]

Are we entirely, 100% certain, that Noelle Quinn is the best coach for this team? I'm not a coach and I know there's a lot of finger-pointing when your team is losing and the officiating isn't helping, but a lot of things the team is doing right now don't make sense to me.

Yvonne Turner was the starting point guard like 2 weeks ago and now she barely plays. Jordan Horston only played 11 minutes last night and she was the starting power forward for a few games ago. Mercedes played OK defensively and did have 8 rebounds but she was also 2-7 shooting, and most of her misses were only a few feet from the basket. I swear she has a shooting range of about 4" from the rim. Dojkic has been pretty good but she misses a lot of shots she should make and has at least twice this week drawn fouls only to miss both free throws. And have they given up on developing Dulcy and Jade? They are just as capable as anyone else when it comes to scoring zero points over 10 minutes.

I wouldn't mind the losing if there was anything to show for it. "We lost but Jewell Loyd was magical;" "We didn't get the win but the rookies played quality minutes and showed progress;" "We lost but the rebounding is better than it was." "We lost but there are signs this team is improving."

I'm sure this is an extremely difficult team to coach because there are so many young players and they have to rebuild after losing Stewie and Bird retiring, but whatever they're doing right now isn't working and it doesn't look like they're getting any better.

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