The Step Through | Episode Eleven Sabreena’s Twitter and Muckrack https://twitter.com/sabreenajm https://muckrack.com/sabreena-merchant Recorded September 9th If you’d care to step through to different parts of the episode: 0:18 - SIXTEEN STRAIGHT losses 1:00 - “How many tiers would you put the top six teams into?” 6:27 - Brianna Turner - lightning fast post-game tweeter 8:21 - Briann January - dynamite defender 9:02 - “The Connecticut Sun held A’ja Wilson to a 1-15 game and Arike was at 1-16 until garbage time when she got another bucket” 9:30 - First Team All-Defense: four Sun players PLUS Sylvia Fowles? 10:53 - Curt Miller would win Defensive Coach of the Year running away 12:18 - Any excuse to show the late great Pat Summitt. 12:55 - Shoutout to the 3x WNBA Champion and 2006 Finals MVP Deanna Nolan 13:00 - Is Courtney Williams the modern day Deanna Nolan? 15:00 - The Game of the Week: Las Vegas Aces vs Chicago Sky (September 05 2021) 15:14 - Jackie Young! 16:05 - Bill, wyd? 17:45 - The Sky offense is frustrating to watch at times 18:00 - SET BREAKDOWNS 18:27 - Floppy Blind Pig Slice + Pin (Aces) 19:34 - Double Stagger/Strong Miami …that goes nowhere (Sky) 20:45 - Wide Flip Flare (Sky) 21:55 - Double Stagger/Strong Miami Blind Pig (Sky) 22:30 - The downside of mass interchangeability 23:18 - Diamond DeShield defending Kelsey Plum 23:46 - SLOB Stack/Spain and counter (Sky) 25:47 - Learning about the Aces minus Cambage and Hamby 27:22 - Kelsey cleaning up games for Las Vegas 27:53 - Flex Bump Chicago Flare (Sky) 29:20 - Triangle Corner Entry (Aces) 30:05 - Imagining Liz on the weak side in that triangle action is dizzying 30:26 - Kelsey Plum STEP THROUGH 30:40 - Candace Parker being used EXCLUSIVELY as a screener on certain sets. 32:02 - The Vegas kept biting on Parker’s pump fakes 32:37 - The Candace/A’ja “matchup” 35:44 - Candace hunting former Sparks teammates 37:08 - Chelsea Gray fading away with Candace on her 38:42 - Make Aces vs Sky a best of nine 40:14 - Kiah Stokes threw a block party in Chicago 40:30 - The aforementioned Kiah Stokes piece on The NEXT: https://www.thenexthoops.com/wnba/las-vegas-aces/las-vegas-aces-missing-cambage-hamby/ 42:19 - Context really does matter in terms of basketball fits. 42:55 - A’ja Wilson is impossible to defend 43:22 - The A’ja-Chelsea parntership 46:10 - Double stagger for Allie was more effective in the fourth 46:57 - The Showtime Sky? 49:44 - Kelsey Plum calls Horns to take a jumper. Next level. 51:21 - Angel McCoughtry 52:53 - With Jonquel, A’ja, and Stewie it all comes down to if they make their shots or not. Praying is all you can do. 54:00 - Major bummer with the Elena Delle Donne news 54:55 - Arike in the playoffs SHOULD be exciting (if they make it) 56:57 - We, in fact, did not have to do an emergency pod 57:16 - Sabreena’s words on Arella Guirantes: https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2021/9/9/22664610/los-angeles-sparks-arella-guirantes-rookie-season-playoff-push-net-rating-connecticut-seattle