Given that their approach the entire season has been to see the regular season as preparation for now, perhaps what we can say about the regular season as the playoffs begin today is that it lost a significant portion of its relevance when it ended on Saturday.
Moreso than other teams, the Storm have been in preparation mode for some time. So I'm hoping that will get our juices flowing." "Two weeks ago we got some people some rest and now we've played a couple of close games here at home even. "It's not like we have to turn it on right now - we've been doing that here the last week," said Agler. And no, they weren't exactly resting their starters and a game away from the playoffs, Agler was attempting to make sure the team was sharp. There may be no better example of that that than the fact they needed a difficult jump shot along the baseline fading out of bounds from Tanisha Wright to defeat their first round opponent, the Los Angeles Sparks, 76-75 this past Saturday. So as dominant as they've been, they aren't exactly invincible either. While one way to look at that is as a measure of veteran resilience and strong coaching, another way to think about it is that they've been closer to losing more than a few games than their dominant overall record might imply. The Storm are 8-1 in games decided by five points or less and 13-6 when facing a deficit at the beginning of the fourth quarter. So, I mean, everybody's going to have their opinions on that and have their predictions about what's going to happen, but we're definitely not looking at it that way."īut looking closely at the overall record also shows that even the path to regular season success wasn't easy. And I think, to me it did anyway and I told our team this on Saturday, that LA definitely got my attention after that game and I think all the players would agree with that. "We take it game by game and we talked with our team that after the regular season's over, now, it goes back to Ground Zero - everybody's record is 0-0 right now. "We try to talk about respecting our opponents," said Agler when asked about the post-season expectations framed by their regular season success. Yet the Storm are fully aware that a championship is not inevitable and not just because the Sparks are peaking, but because no regular season record will simply lift you to playoff success - more than one player has acknowledged the reality that their record as of today is 0-0. With the best record in the league - tied for the most wins in league history - the Storm will have home court advantage throughout the playoffs so winning a championship would seem to be a matter of continuing to do what they've been doing.
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They steamrolled through the league en route to a 22-2 record through July - the best start in the history of Seattle professional sports - and finished the regular season with a 17-0 record at KeyArena. The hype about the 28-6 Seattle Storm and the seeming inevitability of winning the franchise's second WNBA title isn't entirely unfounded.
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