Chennedy Carter is the Female Trae Young

[NBASupes]

 

 

If Angel was our female Dominique, Chennedy is Trae Young. 

[macdaddy]

Wow.  Going to have to check out the dream!

[AHF]

Looks like a bit heavier weight towards penetration over perimeter shooting but exciting new addition to the Dream!

[Gray Mule]

Some NBA fans here will find it necessary for their grass to really step it up.  You know who you are.  "Watching my grass grow is more exciting than watching a WNBA game."

[NBASupes]

Dream play tonight on NBATV, FYI!

[RedDawg#8]

She is nice with it man, Im a fan.

 

Whoa that sounded a little pervvy lol

[lethalweapon3]

1 hour ago, NBASupes said:

Dream play tonight on NBATV, FYI!

Actually on CBS Sports Network tonight (10 PM Eastern, right after Sabrina Ionescu's New York Liberty face the Dallas Wings at 8), but NBA TV has been dropping games out of the sky lately, so check there if you don't have CBS SN!

 

~lw3

[Spud2nique]

56 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Sabrina Ionescu's

Oooohhhh nice  

[TheNorthCydeRises]

smh . . yall put the whammy on her

 

[NBASupes]

The whole team was ass. Angel whooped our ass

[lethalweapon3]

Done in by what once was "our female Joe Johnson" and her knowledgeable veteran friends! lol

Still plenty of flashes of something very good this way comes! The ballhandling and wizardry passing is there. Like Trae, she needs somebody to be consistent on the other end of those tasty dishes.

Y'all remember when Trae "struggled" in his first couple Summer League games, the narratives that flooded in?

Remember that Chennedy gets no Spring/Summer League (in any season), and sat for months with no scrimmaging except against some of her own teammates (like "Bleak" Dietrick lmao, what on Earth was she doing at the end of the first half? Princeton, eh?) in recent weeks.

Carter arrives on a team that finished a league-worst 8-26 without Angel last season, and what would be the two top returning scorers from that team including the only legit 3-point shooter they had before Shekinna Stricklen, opted out of playing in the Wubble in 2020.

Three of the team's four biggest veteran offseason additions, Stricklen being the exception, all came down with COVID and have yet to join her team on the floor. Two of her other 8 teammates are second-rounders that normally wouldn't make a final roster cut. Two more were signed just before it was time to head down to Manatee County.

And the second game of Carter's professional career is against Angel, the borderline-Hall of Fame star she just replaced here in town, on a squad that's still a contender without arguably its most dominant big in the league, led by perennial MVP candidate A'ja Wilson and three-time WNBA champion coach Bill Laimbeer.

Carter wages against a team that was gifted three #1 overall WNBA picks the past four seasons, one of whom opted out, while the other hardly has to lift a finger off the bench because their depth is still good. Angel's arrival makes it four #1 overall picks on Bill's 11-woman roster. A 2017 All-Star and a 2015 All-Star come off the bench, too, not even counting 2019's Sixth Woman of the Year.

Chennedy's teammate, with a league-high 30 points on Sunday versus a young Dallas Wings club, got herself in early foul trouble and finished with a mere five. Bleak and the bench shot 2-for-20 on threes. It's rough out here.

I'm legit surprised the outcome wasn't worse. We'll see if the club can fare better against New York, who has the fantastic Sabrina Ionescu (33 points last night, but in a 13-point loss to that same Dallas team) but also six other rookies in tow, tomorrow night (7 PM Eastern, Fox Sports Southeast and NBA TV). With only a day between games the rest of the way, for talented youngsters like Carter and Ionescu, the learning will have to come on the fly.

 

Go Dream!

~lw3

[Dnice]

17 hours ago, RedDawg#8 said:

She is nice with it man, Im a fan.

 

Whoa that sounded a little pervvy lol

Getting Iggy with it... but that's another topic for another day... lol

[Gray Mule]

Angel's Aces won but the Dream bounced back and won the next one!

Atlanta had 2 come from behind wins Friday night.  Dream was behind at the half and the Braves were down by a lot before their victory!  

[lethalweapon3]

Just leaving this here.

 

~lw3

[lethalweapon3]

Here's hoping she won't become the female Derrick Rose.

~lw3

[Spud2nique]

2 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Here's hoping she won't become the female Derrick Rose.

~lw3

Not laughing due to injury just the lethal title for it.

[JayBirdHawk]

3 minutes ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Here's hoping she won't become the female Derrick Rose.

~lw3

Oh nooo! 

2 weeks isn't too bad, so hopefully not too serious.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

On 8/11/2020 at 4:10 PM, JayBirdHawk said:

Oh nooo! 

2 weeks isn't too bad, so hopefully not too serious.

2 weeks is catastrophic in a 22 game season.

They're already 2 - 6 with the loss tonight.  By the time Carter comes back, they'll literally have about 6 - 8 games left to go.

They probably need at minimum 9 wins to get in.  So they need to really step it up without Hollywood in the lineup.

[JayBirdHawk]

14 minutes ago, TheNorthCydeRises said:

2 weeks is catastrophic in a 22 game season.

They're already 2 - 6 with the loss tonight.  By the time Carter comes back, they'll literally have about 6 - 8 games left to go.

They probably need at minimum 9 wins to get in.  So they need to really step it up without Hollywood in the lineup.

Forgot about the shortened season.

[lethalweapon3]

At this point Ms. Carter's going to need a dance partner from the next draft. Or two.

There's likely no one of Sabrina's level coming in the 2021 (knock on deep-cleaned wood) Draft. But somebody upfront could be of the caliber that could provide a decent pick-and-roll partner. If Renee and Tiffany return under contract in 2021, then they'll be much deeper at guard anyway.

There is no companion commensurate with the male John Collins, if you will, on this roster, one with whom she can set up copious pick-and-roll or pick-and-pop options. In the meantime, whenever she returns, our female Trae (just playing along here) has to deal with having a female Baze, a female Malcolm Delaney, a female Timmy Hardaway, a female Damian Jones, a female Alex Len... and her team may be getting coached by a female LP (not the best comparison for 2018's Coach of the Year, but her real rookie season as a coach, post-Angel, started last year)...

Tiffany's locked in through 2022, barring a trade. Renee loves the local media work she's been doing here and lived here in the offseason before coming, so the only reason she'd look elsewhere is the lingering, "See, the way my ownership is set up is..." situation.

For the few who don't already know, the WNBA Draft Lottery takes the non-playoff teams and *combines* the past *two* seasons together to set up lottery odds. 'Tis the reason Atlanta didn't get top-odds in 2019 despite the worst league record. Free-falling Washington was a 2019 top-seed, Connecticut was #2, and Indiana was not-too-shabby either. So the only competitors for Atlanta in the race to the bottom are Sabrina's Liberty and Dallas.

~lw3