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“Before the game she said, ‘I don’t like our warm-ups,’” said Mystics head coach Tree Rollins. “’We don’t look like we’re ready to go.’ She called it from the start.”
However, maybe it shouldn’t have been that hard to predict, as the Mystics (2-3) have struggled early in every game this season, averaging 12.5 points in the first quarter, including just 10 in their 70-59 loss to the star-studded Los Angeles Sparks.
“We’ve had five games, and in five games, we’ve gotten off to five slow starts so I wouldn’t say it’s the hype or anything like that,” said guard Alana Beard.
At least Washington has been able to recover and win twice. Defending WNBA-champion Phoenix, meanwhile, is winless, despite boasting two players already named to the U.S. Olympic team: Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter.
Pondexter (26.8 points per game) and Taurasi (21.0 ppg) are the first- and third-leading scorers in the league, but the Mercury (0-4) are suffering from the absence of forward Penny Taylor (17.8 ppg, 4.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists in 2007), who is skipping the first portion of the WNBA season to prepare for the Olympics with the Australian national team.
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2:16 PM MST on Thu., Aug. 16, 2007 re: "Currie traded to Mystics"
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Go Mystics this is the one u need, u are home take it, i said take play with heart. way to go tree. DJ Rope Flanagan of WPFW Radio a mystics and have always been one
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While this move (signing Currie) will fill the seats (for a little while), this was a bad move for the team. Chastity Melvin was healthy, and playing some of the best 'ball on the team. She was a legitimate Center, in a league with very few legitamate Centers. Nakia Sanford plays hard, which is great, but she has a propencity to get into foul trouble quite early and often; we have no one behind Nakia Sanford, (that kid they picked up, Goring, is no where near ready). We got crushed by the Monarchs 'inside'. Currie would not have helped. We're screwed.
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