I was originally going to type this weeks ago; after about 6 games into the season. Didn't have time.
Now that we're about 12 games into the season, it seems like the Dream have gotten better, but I'm still not watching.
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I could not wait for the 2026 WNBA season to start, especially after how amazing 2026 Unrivaled was!
I was elated of course, to hear that Angel Reese was going to Atlanta; and I love me some Rhyne Howard; plus with Jordin Canada (and I know a few others are slipping my memory) I felt they were going to be a powerhouse, plus their off court chemistry and everything.
After watching 3 games, man they had me raging! Throwing the ball...where? To the audience?
I only read on respectful subreddits that are fine for my mental health, and chile some people were like,
"Did they put butter on the basketball or something?"
I'm like, right!! I mean, what? The missed lay ups, the missed everythings, the too many 3's. On reddit they say the coach will bench them if they don't take as many wide open 3's as they can, something crazy like that.
Just a mess.
When I would see one Atlanta Dream player with the ball and she's just looking around...like she just trapped or something...and then does a bad pass to the next chick who turns it over and just on and on;
and sometimes if a player managed to hold on to the ball, she'd miss the shot.
Now at the very beginning of the season they did have 2 miracle comebacks; I don't think those games aired.
Watching the entire games...I was like, man, chile I was getting so mad I was like you bitches better play, practice, score...something!
The best in the world! How are you playing like this.
So I just decided to step all the way back; they were making me too angry.
Then add in the officiating; and sad injuries like Rekia Jackson, and Dominique Molonga...
Trying to watch some other teams; I wouldn't even know some of the players on the teams.
So watching some other teams, as I had originally planned to record and watch every game I could, those games were also very boring during this time.
Looking like amateurs. And I guess some of the crowds were dead for that reason, and sometimes the commentators are boring too.
It just takes a combination of factors; but I don't know what was going on but too many of the teams have been playing horrendous.
Thank goodness for Olivia Miles!
And come on Flau'Jae!
Alright, as it gets closer to playoffs I'll start checking in and I definitely plan to watch the playoffs.
Let's check back in in a few months and hope these women are playing up to their potential!
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[Update August 1, 2026]
Things have gotten a lot better. The Atlanta Dream are actually playing basketball now.
The rest of the games, also look like normal games and not this deadness and confusion going on in the beginning of the season, as well as good crowds and decent announcers.
The refs are still insanely incompetent though.
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I just watched Las Vegas Aces vs Chicago Sky; and while I hate the Sky organization, don't like that coach etc, I like the players (except those who didn't speak up for Angel Reese) but many of these players are new to the team so they have nothing to do with that.
So I was neutral at first but as time went on I saw how much heart and grit Chicago were playing with, and it was just as overall amazing high quality basketball; and they kept talking about Sydney Taylor being undrafted and making amazing moves, and all this, just so interesting.
So I started rooting for her and Chicago.
With 3 seconds left, Chicago Sky was down by 2. I didn't think the Sky had a chance to make a 3 pointer with this amount of time especially since Vegas is the stronger team...
But Sydney Taylor made the 3 🏀🏀🏀
Won the game at the buzzer!!
Wow. I thoroughly enjoyed that and I'm so glad I got to witness it; and I cherish it.
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First game today, Olivia Miles had a great game and I was thrilled for that. 💥
💥And still so happy about this:
WNBA: Indiana Infection Defeated by Chelsea Clutch Gray
❌And then today against the Indiana Infection Dijonai, girl you done got on my nerves, with that flagrant 2 foul.
I hate when otherwise good players and good people, let their unregulated emotions get the best of them, and doing in this where there are a million cameras...I'm like, get yourself under control!
Keep yourself clean for you! And your team.
Now, [Kamala Harris] let me be clear:
👊🏾my energy is not on the ray cysts (and the people who look like me but are still ray cysts towards their own race)
👊🏾those type of people have serious problems that go way before and beyond race, WNBA etc. They are triggered, that's their own problems
👊🏾so no. While I get disappointed when players lose their cool against that damn Indiana Infection team, I do not believe "it just feeds the narrative about jealousy' or 'it just gives fire to the stereotypes'
Man, fuc all that shit. Those lies been around hundreds of years. And before those lies, there were more, and before that more and more.
👊🏾Those type of people stay raging, they stay in chaos, they're addicted to it....so no one else's actions, no matter how wrong, should be used as "see this is why they feel the way they feel."
No. They feel their ray cyst ways because that's who they are. Period. Ray cyst, homophobic, disrespect for kids and animals, like it all goes together
Now when I (rightfully so) felt like these online people were a direct threat to me because they represent the systems that rule everything, the injustice hiearchy and all that, yeah I would be like "damn now they're gonna say this and say that."
But that was my own fear speaking. That was my survival mode being activated for fight.
Now that I have advanced on my healing and recovery journey, and I mean 'recovery' like surgery recovery, lol, painful...
But I'm advanced now and while the facts remain facts, I don't view these facts anymore through survivor mode and my own fear because these people are not an immediate or direct threat to me. The systems are a threat of course. But each individual ....naw, they are nothing. They have no power in my life.
So let their comments, podtrash, articles, blah blah, reels, everything all this trash...let it be nothing, vacant, avoided by me, since the people producing the content are nothing. Not a threat to my safety like my survival mode brain used to be activated for
And it could easily go back that way, but I have to keep my boundaries in place between me and the WNBA women.
Their actions represent them, not the entire race or any crap like that. I refuse to feed into belief systems that are meant to destroy and impossible to defend against
Alright, I'll be sure to avoid, aggressively avoid the discourse out there and continue to do as great as I have been
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