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Doppler looks great with all the radioactive handouts they gave us in the background.
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Oh no, this is the intros where they have the players pop out in distant places around the arena. I think this was JB.
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Uh this was some other player
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Was this Tanisha? I should have been paying more attention.
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Obviously this was Izzy since she was like three feet away from me.
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Of course Betty always points to the sky.
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Somewhere in this blurry mess is Sue Bird.
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OK that's everyone.
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LJ immediately slams into some weak defense.
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One good sign is that they're having Betty drive to the paint and then pass instead of throwing up a shot that will get blocked.
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LL is already swatting shots around.
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And committing fouls.
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Teams are going to do a better job of double teaming LJ this season so she can't do her step-back fadeway shot.
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Yeah, this shot
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To help Sue to score more this year, teams will kindly be leaving her open like this.
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The Storm thanks you.
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Nice interior screen by Tiffani.
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No-look pass to Tiffani.
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Looks like Sue wasn't the only one who wasn't looking.
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Fantastic drive to the basket by Sue.
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Unfortunately the professional photographers with the house flashes also thought it was a great drive.
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We've got a foul coming up here...
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...wait for it...
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...there it is!
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The woman who sits in front of me has this cool "fauxhawk".
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More of that double-teaming we should expect to see LJ in this season.
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Notice how this really prevents a fadeaway shot.
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Christi thinks she's going to get her hands on that ball.
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But LJ slams the brakes on.
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Betty drives to the basket appearing to be expecting to pass to someone there.
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Uh oh some sloppy ball handling...
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...but Sue manages to get it back.
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The Sue Bird/Temeka Johnson match-up was really entertaining. Temeka is really really fast.
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Here's the funniest flop of the evening...
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Whoops, you need to keep your feet under your body in order to fight gravity.
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The flop is even funnier when you see Jessica Moore's feet.
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Runaway ball!
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Picked up by Doneeka Hodges...
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...who thinks she has a pretty good chance of scoring against Sue...
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...but whoops!
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Although you can't see it, this is where Izzy got shoved into LJ's elbows.
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Which lead to a foul... on us?
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Isn't this a moving screen or am I just too picky?
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Tamara Moore is being mobbed by the kids coming from the Conga line!
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The game ended with this double jumpball ball in the center court thing.
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You learn something new about basketball in every game.
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