[blogguy]

Tuesday Night's Results:

Houston/Connecticut played to a 74
Indiana/Washington played to a 76
Charlotte/New York played to a 78
Detroit/San Antonio played to a 74
Sacramento/Seattle played to a 69

All five games went Under their totals...and you can see that it was a very slow night across the sport. Games stayed Under by 12, 7, 7, 25, and 29 points. There were two "slow/slow" games...and both stayed Under (the bottom two...the ones that stayed Under by 25 and 29 points!). There weren't any "fast/fast" games.

Hope some of you got a chance to chart the schedules on graph paper the way I suggested in an earlier post. You would have seen that Seattle was starting a back-to-back last night...and remembered that the last time they were in that kind of boat they suddenly got very slow. Last night the same thing happened at home against Sacramento. Off the charts slow, just like the last time. So, clearly the head coach is slowing them down in back-to-backs to save their energy for both games. Tough task tonight though playing in LA on night two of a back-to-back.


Updated through games of Tuesday 6/27

Connecticut: 72-74-74-74-77-78-78-80-81-81-81-83-84-85-86 (80)
Indiana: 70-71-71-72-72-72-73-74-75-75-75-76-77-78-79-82 (74-75)
Washington: 70-72-75-75-76-76-78-79-81-82-82-82-84-86 (78-79)
Chicago: 68-70-71-72-75-75-75-76-76-78-80-81-82-86 (75-76)
Detroit: 68-73-73-74-74-75-75-76-78-79-80-84-84-85 (75-76)
Charlotte: 72-77-78-78-79-81-81-82-82-82-83-84-86-88 (81-82)
New York: 68-70-71-71-72-75-75-76-77-78-79-79-79-86 (75-76)

Sacramento: 69-71-71-72-72-72-74-75-75-75-77-78-79-94 (74-75)
Houston: 71-71-72-73-73-73-74-75-77-77-77-78-79-80-82-84 (75-77)
Los Angeles: 72-72-74-75-76-77-79-80-80-80-82-82-84-87 (79-80)
San Antonio: 71-72-75-74-74-75-76-77-77-78-79-80-80-83 (76-77)
Seattle: 68-69-72-72-73-74-74-76-77-78-78-80-82-82-83-85 (76-77)
Minnesota: 72-73-74-75-76-76-78-78-78-80-82-83-85 (78)
Phoenix: 78-79-79-79-80-81-82-83-84-85-85-94 (81-82)

We should probably lower our definitions a bit since the tempo's everywhere are slowing down:
79-up: fast
78: neutral
76-77 slow
75 or below: really slow

FAST
Connecticut
Washington
Charlotte
Phoenix
Los Angeles

NEUTRAL
Minnesota

SLOW
Seattle
San Antonio
Houston
Detroit
Chicago
New York

REALLY SLOW
Indiana
Sacramento

Wednesday Night:
Minnesota at Phoenix: Neutral/Fast
Seattle at LA: Slow/Fast

Congrats to those of you who have been following along with us here. Please feel free to add in anything you may have discovered with your own numbers crunching in the WNBA!