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Dom is dominating! Let’s go!

Let’s go young ladies(vets)!!!

(There is never a thread for the game. I remember there were some last season. I can’t find any forums. I won’t be able to make one every game, is there someone that usually does it?)

Every time I critique her in this sub I get downvoted. But I really think she doesn’t help the team, but we still give her too many of minutes. Is there something I’m missing? Can someone honestly explain explain without just downvoting why we seem to be so invested in her despite her never playing well?

basically the title. we will be at the game tonight and we want to be GAY together with all of you after the game. wildrose? somewhere else?? where will you be????

I thought Grace gave very quality minutes yesterday. Plays with pro pace, defends effectively on the perimeter man 2 man, doesn’t appear sped up, and fluid athletically. When Awa is here and Ezi is back it will get crowded, but if she keeps playing like she did yesterday it will be hard to not find her minutes.

Winning comment gets nothing, unless you have a topshot account and want a free random wnba digital card. That I can do.

There’s a room with a piano at the apartment complex where most of the Seattle Storm players reside, and they’ve given it a nickname: “Dom’s Room.” Dominique Malonga tends to retreat there when her brain gets too overwhelmed—after practice, after a game, or at the end of a long week juggling professional basketball with assignments for her computer science classes.

“I spend my life there,” the 20-year-old tells me over Zoom in April. She’d taken piano lessons as a kid, and when she came back around to it four years ago she realized she hadn’t forgotten how to play. She taught herself piano pieces on YouTube and disappears to Dom’s Room when she needs an escape. “When my mind is full and I need to reset and calm myself, I just go play.”

Much of Malonga’s fanfare as one of the WNBA’s brightest young stars has centered on her athleticism. The 6-foot-6 French center was drafted second overall by the Storm last year; she was the youngest player in the league at the time, but her size, mobility, and ability to dunk made her impossible to ignore. She spent much of her rookie season quietly studying the game behind a team full of veterans. She gradually became a threat off the bench, and subsequently the youngest player ever to post a double-double and reach 100 career points.

But basketball is only part of what she's building. While she's learning the league, she's also chasing a college degree and filling every spare hour with something new, working toward a life that extends well beyond the court.

Malonga is calling from Seattle, where she just arrived ahead of training camp after a whirlwind WNBA off-season. She underwent wrist surgery in October, taking her time to truly recover physically and mentally for the first time in years. “It was the first time I had time for me,” she says.

She then spent the first two months of this year in Miami competing in the Unrivaled 3-on-3 league, before going home to France to play in the FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament. She suffered a concussion two games in, going back into recovery mode, and spent the rest of her time off with family in France.

“Syd and TP have been spending a lot of time with kids, and it’s teaching us all A LOT. A 6-year-old at a bounce house asked an important question for which TP had no answer. Gymnastics resumed. Syd got her biggest wish - another class clown in her family tree.

Since y’all can’t let us take a vacation in peace, Syd clears the air on retirement, injury, and where her dream final minutes would be played.

TP is having a little "hissy" (her words), otherwise known as a hysterectomy. No more pain, no more blood infusions. You’ll never guess what she wants to be called when she wakes up. She's kidding. Mostly.

Plus: the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and Louisiana is just the start, WNBA valuations are breaking records, ESPN dropped a Top 50 list that was clearly designed as rage bait, and Gen Z rookies are TikToking in the locker room after getting cut. And we couldn’t even tell a joke on the bus after a loss?”

Hey everyone!

I’m going to my first Storm game tomorrow and don’t have any basketball merch, is it ok to wear my Torrent jersey? The closest Seattle sport gear I thought would be fitting is PWHL merch.

Thanks!