How about the Mystics getting the win against the Lynx tonight? Yeah, the Lynx were without Collier, but still that had to feel good for those Washington players and fans.
And Dallas beat the Atlanta Dream. Griner only managed to score 2 points in 18 minutes. She got 6 rebounds, but Dallas' Li Yueru owned the boards in getting 15 and then 10 points.
I've never said this anywhere, but even though Griner has always been an all-Star and has been an Olympian, I still feel like her career was less dominating than I anticipated it would be coming out of college. I figured once she reached the pros and was surrounded by other dominant players it would just take her up another few notches.
But she never became, as I once predicted, "the most dominant player in American women's basketball." And really, I think she ended up being just a tad too slow. The muscles in those long arms and legs must have a significantly higher ratio of slow-twitch fibers than fast-twitch. She's had plenty of brilliant moments, but never became an unstoppable force. I really thought she would. But that's life. You don't know what could happen until ya live it!
