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Lynx, Sun lottery winners
The Minnesota Lynx earned the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft lottery followed by Sacramento, the team with the highest probability of earning the top pick. The Connecticut Sun leapfrogged Minnesota to get the third overall pick.
The top overall pick was actually the property of the New York Liberty but was traded away in a deal which brought Sidney Spencer to New York.
Now the question is whether Minnesota takes Jayne Appel or Tina Charles with the top overall pick. Whoever the Lynx selects, a potential lineup of Renee Montgomery, Seimone Augustus, Candice Wiggins, Nicky Anosike, Charde Houston and two of the top four picks is downright scary.
The question is what Sacramento does at No. 2. It would seem that Appel or Charles would be the natural pick but let's not forget that Sacramento used a first-round pick on Courtney Paris last season. A scorer like Monica Wright would fit nicely with the Monarchs although I would take either Appel or Charles if it were me.
As for the Sun, pick between Appel, Charles and Wright isn't such a bad consolation prize although other players (Danielle McCray of Kansas comes to mind so does Middle Tennessee's Alysha Clark who dropped 38 on LSU and 28 on Tennessee last season) could play their way into contention for the No. 3 overall pick.
The top overall pick was actually the property of the New York Liberty but was traded away in a deal which brought Sidney Spencer to New York.
Now the question is whether Minnesota takes Jayne Appel or Tina Charles with the top overall pick. Whoever the Lynx selects, a potential lineup of Renee Montgomery, Seimone Augustus, Candice Wiggins, Nicky Anosike, Charde Houston and two of the top four picks is downright scary.
The question is what Sacramento does at No. 2. It would seem that Appel or Charles would be the natural pick but let's not forget that Sacramento used a first-round pick on Courtney Paris last season. A scorer like Monica Wright would fit nicely with the Monarchs although I would take either Appel or Charles if it were me.
As for the Sun, pick between Appel, Charles and Wright isn't such a bad consolation prize although other players (Danielle McCray of Kansas comes to mind so does Middle Tennessee's Alysha Clark who dropped 38 on LSU and 28 on Tennessee last season) could play their way into contention for the No. 3 overall pick.
posted by Jim Fuller at
3:59 PM
3 Comments:
If Sienko selects Clark with the 3rd Pick I will officially disown the CT Sun....one Holt is enough....Clark is an undersized 4 with streaky outside range (aka Barbara Turner)....Charles, Appel, Wright, Prince, McCray are the Top 5 in that order (IMO) with Harris and Breland in that discussion but excluded due to RS possibilities.
Sorry to break it to you but Chris Sienko does not make the draft picks, Mike Thibault does. Can't say I have ever seen a Middle Tennessee game so can't offer the same insight you do on her but it's hard to dismiss somebody who lit up LSU and Tennessee like she did. There's plenty of time for all this to shake out before the draft.
I know Mike pulls the strings, I just meant it as Sienko is the GM. Usually I write both their names. Putting up 38 and 28 against LSU and Tenn (respectively) is impressive, but so were Ann Strother's performances in college against Tenn year after year and that still didn't translate into WNBA success plus she was 6'3 and Clarke is only 5'10. And remember LSU and Tenn were BAD at the beginning of last season dealing with loads of freshmen. History says, Clarke will likely be a 1st Rd-er (but certainly not worthy of the #3 pick) b/c some GM will take a chance, but that same history has also been very cruel to undersized posts.
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