Watch McBride off screen here: the price of vigilance is two points. Big proponent of the top-lock from Ceci (you always know your old team!) but you can see McBride's IQ as a route runner finding the space both times (that corner dex is the counter to the top-lock, if the pass can get there).

Ok, finally getting a chance to watch GSV-MIN game one. Will try not to be too self-referential to the pre-game post in this thread, but it will sometimes be inevitable. riseofthevalkyries.substack.com/p/how-the-va... Zoom empty with Carleton—would love to shrink the floor more at the nail here.

It is kind to vets, however, and Nia Coffey was another bright spot for the Lynx. Reeve talked about her impact on MIN's defense, and that's clear: great isolation defense at all three levels, and a high block rate + 93rd percentile def. Win Shares augurs well for Minnesota.

Also a lot to like about Sydney Taylor on the Chicago Sky. Besides a game-high 23 points vs. Atlanta, her game has a snap to it offensively—fireball pass in transition, good first step on drive—that I think gives a great change of pace to Chicago's cluttered backcourt rotation.

The Valkyries are going places.

Fenerbahce, the Euroleague Women title favorite, is just so smooth. Doing all the small things right—everyone runs the right lane in transition (corner, corner, paint); Rupert fills fully down to the block and then lifts to take away the low help while Fener flows into empty PnR and a free layup.

A couple of (the many) clips that didn't make it: The Tempo created two turnovers with Nyara Sabally blitzing the ballscreen, against both Georgia Amoore and Sonia Citron, in the fourth quarter. Veteran technique to hold the screener w/inside and attack ball w/outside hand.

Schio again with the sequencing: nice start-of-quarter slice to get Conde a post up and an even nicer turnaround make. Then, post touch again for Conde with a weakside pin-in screen slip. Talked more about Conde's game here: riseofthevalkyries.substack.com/p/the-on-sea...

Clever from Maria Conde/Schio. They show the Spain action early (backscreen roll, pop), and Jess Shepard gets fouled. Then, off a BLOB, they show the same action, but Conde slips the back screen. If Shepard fades wing, she might be able to hold Kuier and negate the recovery to the paint/contest.

The questions is whether she can move the needle offensively. -8.51 ORTG on/off splits last year and will need to shoot closer to her career 35% 3PT than last year's 29%. Also needs to look to score against mismatches inside and get to the line. 91% rim + 3 rate last year. That's all the Lynx want.

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Dec. 31 brings up thoughts of endings, but also of renewal for the year ahead. As Dr. Kim Haines-Eitzen points out, the same is true for the ancient understanding of the apocalypse. It wasn’t the end of everything, as we think of it now, but rather a transition. www.howgodworks.org/podcast/seas...

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This is what a President should sound like.

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Latino voters are the fastest-growing part of the electorate, but for too long, campaigns have treated them as an afterthought, not a cornerstone LULAC, UnidosUS Action Fund, Mi Familia Vota & the Latino Victory Project are changing that—they just launched a coalition to make politics match reality

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Kit Malthouse, Conservative MP for North West Hampshire, tells me he's wept after hearing the stories of dying and bereaved people. He'll be backing the assisted dying bill tomorrow.

Show me a picture that captures your essence.

Luther Burden’s too smooth