WNBA What to see Week 1: Paige Bueckers returns home, defending New York Liberty Meet Fever Camps

The opening of the weekend at the WNBA has come and has spent eight games in the first three days of the regular season.

The story was made with the first game of the regular WNBA season, which was played at the Chase Center in Valkyries vs Sparks and Liberty saw that their first flag in the championship struck the rafts of Barclays Center.

But the story could not occur without any important drama. All the talk in WNBA circles right now is the consequence of the fever workshop against the rival of the sky where Caitlin Clark committed a foul Angel reese and as a result the WNBA opened an investigation In the hate comments to Indiana Gainbridge Fieldhouse towards Reese. All this comes a few days after the league announced it New campaign “Without space for hatred” a platform intended to guide in cases like these.

Again, WNBA is narratives that question the physical physical after the blatant lack of Clark and Reese’s subsequent reaction. Former WNBA player Chiney Ogwumike jumped to the first ESPN dam to explain that hatred should not be tolerated in basketball and that blatant lack was part of the game.

Explained that he saw the tension between freedom Jonquel Jones and Chelsea Gray of ACES in New York and then technicians flew to Connecticut after Washington Shakira Austin and connecticut’s Kariaata Diaby were fighting for the position.

“This happens in the WNBA,” he said. “The WNBA is what many people celebrate the NBA to embrace -it is a physical league. This had gasoline because I had two megastar players, home names, but my number one theory is if players are not formed.”

In addition to the drama, there were some news of injuries that caused the league during the first days of play. Sparks Wing Rae burrell It lasted 41 seconds in the first Sparking game of the season before going down with an injury where he couldn’t put much weight on his right knee. The sparks expect Burrell to be lost from six to eight weeks. So it will come out for a couple of months. In addition, Phoenix Mercury announced that the FACE franchise Kahleah copper He had an arthroscopy of the left knee and gave him a four to six -week calendar to return to basketball activities. Phoenix Center Natasha mack His back was injured and will also be out of two to three weeks.

Anyway, the first weekend of the league also produced a lot of impressive beginners performances, especially from Washington Duo to Forward Kiki iriafin and the wing Sonia Citron. In two regular seasonal games, Iriafin has settled as a second option for Mysticles Brittney Sykes. And Citron has had a large number of welcome to the moments of the league, but that has not been achieved. In two matches she average 17 points, 2.5 assists, 1.5 rebounds, firing 64.7 % of the field and 40 % of three equating 25 fantasy points.

Speaking of mystics, they remain surprisingly 2-0 towards the first full week of game. Will this continue?

Then there are five games to watch the first WNBA of the regular season:

Atlanta Dream @ Indiana Fever

(Tuesday, May 20 at 19:00 et a la NBA TV)

This is the first of two games in a series of house and house between sleep and fever. Atlanta wants to bounce after a 94-90 loss against the Washington Mystic, where Atlanta struggled to defend and allowed Washington to shoot 50.8 % of the field. Karl Smesko Principal Coach Postgame explained That the training camp focused more on the offense and was not surprised that the defense of his team fought. I highlight this first game because I will be very curious to see how Brittney grins matches against Aliyah bostonA match that Boston has struggled historically due to the strength, size and length of Griner. While Indiana’s defense was praised for how to play against the Chicago Sky, it is worth remembering the staff on the track on the track that defended the fever. A Atlanta force are your most dynamic guards Rhyne howard and Allisha Gray they are better creators of one by one than those of Chicago Ariel Atkins and Courtney Vandersloot.

Dallas Wings @ Minnesota Lynx

(Wednesday, May 21 at 8 pm et al Passi de la Liga Wnba)

Paige Bueckers He will return to the state of the Minnesota State to play his first game as a professional in the arena who grew up against the team he grew up seeing. While Lynx won this first game on Friday 99-84 after three quarters of competitive, Bueckers will try to show himself against his multitude of personal house in Minneapolis. I will be curious to see what adjustments the titular coach of the first year Chris Koclanes does to counteract the aggressive Lynx ball pressure, which is what Koclanes thought It made it difficult for the offense of the wings. While sample size is limited, after two games played, Lynx is the third worst The rebound team in the league. What does Dallas do to take advantage of? But also, even if Bueckers goes out with a more dominant statistical line, Wednesday night is the Lynx house workshop. The multitude of minnesota will surely host the Bueckers, but that does not mean that they are rooted for her.

Golden State Valkyries @ Los Angeles Sparks

(Friday, May 23 at 22:00 et en en ion)

Valkyries are not only the first WNBA expansion franchise to play in 17 seasons, but also give the W the first state game since the monarchs Sacramento folded in 2009. On the opening night, these two teams played in San Francisco and the Sparks won 84-67 decisively at the back of the new franchise Plum KelSey who had a historic night by scoring 37 points (11 of 19 of 19), two rebounds, six assists, five robberies and four three points in his debut in Sparks. How do you try to neutralize the Plum who he trained for years at Las Vegas, main coach of Valkyries? Nakase, a native of Anaheim and a student UCLA, will return home for their first coach at the helm. To defeat the sparks in this second game, the Valkyries will have to come out more in transition, as in the first game they had only nine rapid rupture points at the 17 of the sparks.

Phoenix Mercury @ Seattle Storm

(Friday, May 23 at 22:00 et en en ion)

Although this coincidence will be exactly at the same time as Valkyries vs sparks, I recommend seeing both in Multiview. The storm was searched by 81-59 by Mercury at the opening of the season on Saturday. How will Seattle respond to its home opening against the same team on Friday? Storm’s titular coach, Noelle Quinn, explained that he believed that his team did not go down enough in that first game against Mercury and that he did not put himself in a position to get shots on the edge. Phoenix appeared well without copper as superiers Alyssa Thomas and Satou Sabally Took the punctuation load. The only other two -digit scorer from Phoenix was the noted guard Lexie remained which had 11 points (shot of 4 of 9), two rebounds, three assists and a three points in his debut at the WNBA. Will this be enough for Phoenix to match 2 against the storm? We will have to keep an eye on to find out.

New York Liberty @ Indiana Fever

(Saturday, May 24 at 1 pm Et a CBS)

New York and Indiana had strong debuts against their natural rivals in Las Vegas and Chicago over the weekend. With two of the strongest schemes in the league in New York Sandy Brondello and Indiana’s Stephanie White Going up against each other, this is a high -level basketball game. Brondello has trained the two new fever acquisitions Dewanna Bonner and Natasha howard. And White helped create a scheme that neutralized BREANNA Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu For several WNBA semifinals matches during his term in Connecticut coaching the sun. A coincidence to see will be the follow -up of how Natasha cloud Defense Clark and how freedom uses its length in its advantage to stop indiana’s second most reliable option KelSey Mitchell. Expect Leonie Fiebich To assume this task. Will be another party to pay attention Jonquel Jones v. Aliyah bostontwo very physical centers that have it Formerly frustrated One another with physique and frustration for those who receive calls and who does not. Wait for this game to be physical with a lot of threads taken. This is how some of the best WNBA games are.