Storm Wins!
17 Friday Sep 2010
17 Friday Sep 2010
08 Wednesday Sep 2010
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Via Kevin Pelton of Storm Basketball, the following vid shows the series of all Storm scores that made up the 15-0 run that wrestled the lead away from Phoenix and ultimately capped by that massive Sue Bird three-pointer to win the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2004.
The game is now archived at LiveAccess
22 Sunday Aug 2010
■ 2010 Record : 28 – 6 — Tied for most wins in a regular season with the 2001 Los Angeles SpOrks
■ 17 – 0 at Home — New record. The 2001 SpOrks were previously 16-0.
■ Camille Little dropped a career-high 22 points.
■ Lauren Jackson overtook Katie Smith into third place on the WNBA career scoring list.
Let the playoffs begin!
21 Saturday Aug 2010
I accidentally wrote over the CSS file of my last green theme so I was forced to renovate this site. Thanks to Woo Themes for the great great base theme. I might tweak this in the coming days when I am no longer annoyed by the fact that we’re going to work on a Saturday (tomorrow) and I’m going to miss the Storm at Phoenix game. Boo!
But anyway, here’s something that terribly expresses what I want to see Swin do against Phoenix tomorrow:
Yes, swat it like it’s hot, Swinny!
Also, Sue Frikkin’ Bird, I hope you show up with your awesome self in the game, and not that doppleganger who missed all but one of her shots and had butterfingers during the game against the Lynx. I mean, what was up with that huh?
Lauren, you’re awesome, don’t get injured.
With that said, GO STORM!
18 Wednesday Aug 2010
Posted Photo Blog, Sports, WNBA
inTaken during the early morning — like 5am early — trek to the Angkor Wat to view the sunrise. It was on those very rare times that I actually hauled my ass out of the bed that early. It was probably the best part of my trip. Would love to go back to Cambodia again and shoot some photos.
The rest of the photos taken during this trip can be viewed via the slideshow below:
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29 Tuesday Jun 2010
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From Resilient Storm push past Shock by Mechelle Voepel:
“People are going to just see the score, and they’re not even going to realize how tough a game it was,” Bird said. “And people might look at our record and think we haven’t had any close games. But, aside from a few, almost every game we’ve had to work. We’ve often had to come back. That’s the resiliency of this team.” – Sue Bird
I think that’s what I like most about this year’s squad. They don’t make excuses if they play badly, they tough it out despite “feeling like crap”, and they pull a win despite being down most of the game. I couldn’t say that to the previous year’s groups. Maybe it was the addition of awesome vets Le’Coe Willingham and Svetlana Abrosimova in the bench. Or maybe it was because everybody’s game stepped up (Swin, Camille, and even T Wright). Maybe they’re finally clicking in both ends of the court. But maybe it was because they have this mental toughness with them this year — like they just wouldn’t quit until the final buzzer sounds or something. They had quite a few comeback games under their belt as proof of that.
This team is far from perfect (hello, injured Birdy) but I like their guts and their swagger and I hope they will weather all through the storm that will come their way. And also, I hope that they make it out of the first round of the playoffs alive. Five (or six?) first round exits is already enough.
19 Saturday Jun 2010
Sue Bird went on to finish the game with the following stat line: 22 points (on 8 of 15), 10 assists, and 2 rebounds. She posted the first double-double for the Storm in this game.
Lauren Jackson finished with 20 points and 12 boards. Second double-double for the team.
Swin Cash had 16 buckets and 7 boards with 8 for 8 FT shooting.
Tanisha Wright got her groove back with 18 monster points.
Camille only had 3 points — all from the charity stripe. I hope you get your game back, Millie!
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Standings: 10 – 2 (1st in West, 1st in WNBA)
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Next Game: June 20, 9pm EST at San Antonio Silver Stars
13 Sunday Jun 2010
The 2010 World Cup just opened Friday night local time and everyone’s been posting crazy about it on Twitter and Facebook.
So, in the spirit of the games, and also because everyone around me just won’t shut up about it, and also because I’m a sports geek, I rolled my eyes and decided what the heck okay I’ll just join the frakking bandwagon. Whatever. It will not make me less of a Storm fan or whatever, right?
So, anyway we completely missed the whole Opening Ceremonies because of office thingamajigs but eh … whatever. We tried to watch South Africa think they almost won it over Mexico but Marquez’s goal in the 79th minute just evened the score at 1-1. SA’s Mphela had a chance to take the lead and the game minutes before the final whistle but hit his shot off the left post. Argh — draw #1 for the night.
Siphiwe Tshabalala scored the first goal of the 2010 World Cup that gave the hosts the lead early in the match.
Photo by Sekretarev (AP)
South Africa’s post-goal dance was almost too hilarious to ignore.
Photo by Ian Vogler
Too bad Mexico scored. Haha.
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The rest of my buddies got their brains eaten by (no, not zombies) that Super Mario World game in Wii so they spent the whole break between the SA-MEX game and the France vs Uruguay game screaming their hearts out over Mario, Luigi, and a bunch of mushrooms as they went through maze after maze and world after world.
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I sat at the side re-watching the last Seattle Storm game where they beat the LA Sporks again. As much as I kept thinking it was because they were awesome and all that but what if it was just because of Key Arena being a fortress or whatever or because most of the West just plainly suck at this point in the season?
I love how we’re 9 and 1 right now and on top of the league and almost everyone in the starting lineup are up there in the statistical categories [Birdy in (1) AST, LJ in (4) PPG, Vesela in (1) FG%, Camille in (1) Steals — tied with Catchings, Swin in (#) in 3PG% or something, etc] but I would rest better if we just get to play Chicago again and beat them and call our 1 loss a fluke haha. Also, we ought to face CT and IND and NY and beat them too. Only then and there will everything will be alright in my world.
I know, I drive a hard bargain. I hope Brian Agler does too. I would love to see this team go 33 and 1 or something. Wishful thinking? I think not, considering how the team is playing right now. And oh, I’m sure the law of average could catch up on them and they’d (God forbid) stumble in a few games in the future but … uhm … yeah, as long as they keep at this level of intensity and energy and awesome awesome chemistry, they could definitely smoke most teams in the league.
They just have to stay healthy though. Oh gosh, LJ, please stay healthy, okay?
And well, stay happy, just like this, yeah?
Photo by Aaron Last (Storm Photos)
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I tried staying up for the France vs Uruguay game but I fell asleep about 15 minutes into the first half. Oh well. Found out later it was a o-0 draw haha. As if I care.
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The next night, I tried to stay up for the USA-England match but once again, I fell asleep. Gaad, I must be getting old. I used to wake up at the crack of dawn whenever the Storm would make the trip east during the previous years.
USA and England finished with a 1-1 draw, by the way. I’m too lazy to find out which player scored and which keeper made a blunder.
Hohumm.
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Argentina won.
I think.
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Germany vs the Socceroos later. I almost have a soft spot for all Aussie national teams because of LJ, Tully, Penny Taylor, and the rest of the Opals but whatever, it’s still Germany!
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Brazil doesn’t play until Wednesday 230AM local time.
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The Storm will go to Indiana and face a 5-4 Fever team with Tamika Catchings, Tully Bevilaqua, and Katie Douglas.
Go Storm! Go 10 and 1!
09 Wednesday Jun 2010
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So I’ve been catching up on games that I haven’t seen last week. There are only a handful of those up in LiveAccess by the way. I’m not really sure why the Seattle home games are not archived yet and are only tagged with “Coming Soon” — how soon is soon anyway?
I managed to watch at least a quarter of the blowout in San Antonio. Frakkin’ LiveAccess would freeze from time to time and my Quad-Core 4-GB RAM CPU would act up. So I gave up on it and just got contented with the fact that we annihilated the Silver Stars 84-56. No complaining from this side LOL — except for the fact that either LiveAccess or Firefox or my internet connection sucks.
I haven’t watched the Storm vs Atlanta Dream game properly because I was at work then and the game wasn’t on LiveAccess. I think it was shown on ESPN2 and archived at ESPN360 but regional restrictions prevent me to watch said game. Too bad because it was awesome; we shut down the high-flying Atlanta team and handed them their first loss. We scored 90-72 behind LJ’s 32 monster points.
Up next in my viewing list was the Sunset Showdown against the Sporks in LA. The Storm didn’t actually dominate but they came up with a win 79-75 behind Birdy’s hot shooting. She had 22 points on 7 of 12 shooting, 4 of 8 on three points. LJ, Swin, and the fabulous Camille Little also chipped in.
Halfway through the LA game, I had this brilliant idea to change browsers. I dunno what was wrong with me that I forgot Firefox being a huge memory hog but well, yeah, when I switched to Google Chrome, the stream was fairly okay, still pixelated at times but no buffering or freezing. Guess, Google Chrome it is then.
After I was done with the LA game, *someone* (super thanks, you) gave me access to UConn’s 2002 Final Four Games and I managed to watch those two in the same night. Ergo, I only had about 2 hours sleep before I had to blearily jump to the shower and go to work. It was worth it though. Birdy and Swin (and Tamika and Ashja and DT) were a joy to watch in their college years and they are still great nowadays.
Lastly, I was able to finish the Phoenix game where the storm completely tore through the nonexistent Phoenix defense and played almost perfectly. Birdy got a double-double, LJ, Swin, and the most underrated player ever Camille Little each added 16 points, Tanisha got her shooting groove back, Svet was awesome (despite getting clocked on the face by DT), and Jana Vesela showed that she has a lot to offer this team. The final score was 97-74 but that totally doesn’t tell the whole story of total domination LOL.
Up next is LA at the Key. Hope all goes well and we hand those Sporks their seventh loss LOL.
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We used to be seven-man deep into our rotation but I think Vesela can be integrated already. I mean, okay so she was playing in garbage time in the Phoenix game, but she was already moving well. That alley-oop with 0.05sec left should be in the highlight reel,W, are you hearing me? Probably not LOL.
Anyway, if we could get Abby Bishop and Lacey some playing time so they get accustomed to the plays, then great. By the way, whatever happened to A-Rob?
31 Monday May 2010
Posted Life Oh Life, Sports
inI’ve hit a wall, again, in my self-studying of this expensive and taxing hobby that I’ve immersed myself into. Photography is draining in many, many ways. Obviously you’re going to have to shell out a lot of money for proper equipment. And then you’ll have to either walk around or go to far-flung places to shoot something new and innovative (or hopefully do something different with what’s been done before) — that will drain you of money, again, and strength. And if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also be drained of your creative juices after you’ve practically tried everything you could ever think of and still you haven’t really found that One Big Shot that would forever leave you contented.
So anyway, hitting the wall. Whatever. Here’s hoping that soon enough that wall will crumble and I’ll find my enthusiasm again. Until then, I’ll just pepper my Flickr stream and Facebook account with self-portraits LOL.
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I’ve recently started this huge writing project that’s starting to eat my time and sanity. I initially estimated it to be just under 10k words but quickly scratched that idea after I reached the 10k mark before reaching 25% of the plot. I’m now almost over 40k and I haven’t even gone to 50%. Pretty epic for a personal project, yes?
I hope I can finish this, if only for my sanity and my faithful beta-reader’s (who doesn’t want to point out my errors and is just enjoying being entertained lol). I don’t think I’ll ever let anyone else read it though. I’m shy like that haha.
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The Storm season’s underway. We’re currently sitting at the top of the Western Conf with 5 wins and 1 loss. We’ve been the comeback kids for 3 of those games, lost one at Chicago, and decimated the Silver Stars in the last game (which I missed — complete fan fail!).
LJ’s healthy and she’s already won a Player of the Week award which is all sorts of awesome. Birdy’s second in Assists behind Cappie with 6.6 a game (I think she even led the league before that loss at Chicago but I’m just speculating). Swin’s playing like a monster whenever we’re in trouble. It’s almost great, this start of the season is. I really hope we can keep this up.
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Photo by Simon Butterworth [Link]