Sunday, May 14, 2006
SEIMONE! no longer Ar-gus-stus! 26 points in her Wblu-Yen-B-Yaa debut!
Even as I prepared my earlier post this morning "The Sky and The Juggernaut", the Seattle website was announcing their losing their preseason finale to Minnesota. At that time, however, the box scores were unavailable. They're posted now (Box Score): from this point on, she will be known simply as "Seimone": Seimone -'til yesterday Seimone Augustus, number 1 WNBA draft pick recently of Pokey Chapman and her LSU Lady Tigers- Seimone scored 26 points in her first WNBA game. (We note here (parenthetically, oh so parenthetically) Svetlana Abrosimova's capacity to really have her 2-point (I'm talkin' 'bout total: 2 points) games at just the right anticlimactic instants.)
Seimone!
Svetlana!
Seimone!
And I take back not one word I said about the Juggernaut: Ann Donovan eats nails for breakfast (and so will her team for a while (watch out Tony!)! Next time!
Svetlana Abrosimova cannot have any more single digit scoring games this season. Period. It is time for her potential to be realized. Coach "Teddy bear" Suzy must not let up for an instant on Adrian Williams either: I could not believe her performance in Phoenix and with the Silver Stars in 2004! (Was it perhaps the playing year-round fatigue factor, I wonder? This was just not the same Adrian of 2002 and 2003, statistically, for sure.)
Illustration: Minnesota in Houston in 2004, with no. 25 Svetlana to the left defending no. 22 Sheryl Swoopes. Photo copyright the author 2004, 2006.
