I am kind of an WNBA bystander in that I love the sport of basketball and completely respect and appreciate the skill and effort these women give to the game. Well, I was a bystander until last week. I (for the first time) have a favorite WNBA player, and it's presumptive Rookie of the Year (and if this keeps up, MVP candidate) Rhyne Howard. She is the truth out there on the court. I even sent my first WNBA tweet the other day, calling out the CBS Sports app for not including WNBA box scores because I wanted to see how she fared that night. Anyway, thanks for including some WNBA content here.
PS I finished typing this out and went to find the Dreams schedule and the closest easy drive WNBA city to me is Indianapolis and the last time they play each other in Indy this season is... tonight. Dammit. I would have made that work for later in the season.
Seeing that the Knicks have managed to assemble a pretty good - not a great but pretty good - core of young players with just one top three pick tells me that while you really do want a chance to grab a superstar, it's scouting and research that ultimately determines who you should draft, and any team should be able to do that.
Which really makes me think that if we did away with the draft (which I am a proponent of, following Mike Florio's logic), nothing would change much. The teams that know what to look for will still do it right, and the rest of the teams won't.
I am kind of an WNBA bystander in that I love the sport of basketball and completely respect and appreciate the skill and effort these women give to the game. Well, I was a bystander until last week. I (for the first time) have a favorite WNBA player, and it's presumptive Rookie of the Year (and if this keeps up, MVP candidate) Rhyne Howard. She is the truth out there on the court. I even sent my first WNBA tweet the other day, calling out the CBS Sports app for not including WNBA box scores because I wanted to see how she fared that night. Anyway, thanks for including some WNBA content here.
PS I finished typing this out and went to find the Dreams schedule and the closest easy drive WNBA city to me is Indianapolis and the last time they play each other in Indy this season is... tonight. Dammit. I would have made that work for later in the season.
Seeing that the Knicks have managed to assemble a pretty good - not a great but pretty good - core of young players with just one top three pick tells me that while you really do want a chance to grab a superstar, it's scouting and research that ultimately determines who you should draft, and any team should be able to do that.
Which really makes me think that if we did away with the draft (which I am a proponent of, following Mike Florio's logic), nothing would change much. The teams that know what to look for will still do it right, and the rest of the teams won't.