Kalani Brown

They just were never really healthy, but even if they had been, I just was not also, I was not bought into some of those bigs.

They had Kalani Brown, like returning to Kalani Brown and, you know, at a thing, like some of that stuff was like, you need some people who have been there before who are hungry for it.

And I think Kalani Brown is somebody who, it's not that she's not good or that some of these people don't have winning mindsets or like that they aren't winners per se.

It's not that.

I just think that I think one of the things that justice kind of talks about a lot in our lives sometimes is how the league is moving away from back to the basket bigs.

I think if Dana Evans was healthier in the beginning of the series versus the end, she would have been more of an advocate for them.

I like Kalani Brown off the bench.

She was good.

But they weren't getting consistent bench play.

Cheyenne is.

And Kalani.

She showed up every year.

Late in season pickup.

And Kalani Brown.

To throw

in Kalani after what was already going on was just like.

The

You know, only difference is Aces had easier people to target.

Like, they could go target Kalani Brown or Parker Tyus and Rihanna Turner.

They had marks out there.

But, like, now those people are Naz Hillman and Angel Reese.

But when we look at the paint, you know, and let's think of this in terms of like net, both offensively and defensively, like who do we think has the paint advantage overall? Or if you want to break it up into offensive and defensive, we can do that too and really nerd out.

Well, like, I look at how well Golden State defended, like, Kalani Brown inside, right? And, like, just a lot of missed layups there.

Angel, you know, for part of her career, part of the season, we've talked about her inefficiency inside.

She's been so much better converting at a higher rate.

Yeah

... someone that you can play a lot more against Naz Hillman than you could against like, you know, Kalani Brown and A'ja Wilson and Cheyenne Parker-Tyus.

Uh, but even when the Aces went small, it seemed like Natalie was reticent to play her.

And when you have the rebounding that Atlanta does, Atlanta has the best offensive rebounding margin in WNBA history.