Sika Koné

Because what was the discussion going into July and August? If they don't have the bench help, this team is in trouble.

If Brianna Jones is hurt, who do you have? Are you going to trot out Sika Kone? Are you going to trot out Tahina Pau Pau and give something up on the defensive end? What can Izzy Borlase do for you that is going to help you? Now you have somebody that you can stagger with Ryan Howard.

You have someone that if you lose Alicia Gray, you at least feel like you have a scoring option that can come back.

You can take...

Talbert, Carly Samuelson is with Portland, so I'd assume she's restricted.

Myesha Hines-Allen, Sika Kone.

It falls off a cliff really quick once you get to, like, the 300,000 vet minimum type of players.

But, like, that's kind of the...

So not a bunch of contribution, but it was fun to see her in the game.

Nothing from Sika Kone or Satori Walker-Kimbrough.

And obviously Brianna Jones out for the rest of the season.

I mentioned that my wife was at the game.

Jordan Canada had five fouls.

Like this is a team that like, they're going to go at, uh, and then one of the games they played Sika Kone, uh, some minutes, which will be interesting.

Oh, caught two.

Um, This is a scenario where, like, okay, Washington is going to – you know what Washington is.

offense,

and it's not going to change going into the series.

So, Atlanta, what does your lineups look like? In the second game, they started Sika Kone over Nas Hill.

Now, Nas ended up playing 25 minutes a game, 25 minutes in a game.

Um, and I think it starts with getting angel Reese and foul trouble.

Um, Anybody who's been talking about Defensive Player of the Year knows that when she's off the floor, it's the biggest margin of loss defensively for a team in the league because her backups just aren't going to be able to provide a similar thing, whether it's like Sika Kone, whether it's Medina Okaw, even with Dewana Bonner now, who's definitely given them a lift.

And it is interesting, to your point, like...

The Mystics and the Dream are two teams that are colliding at moments where it feels like they have more momentum than just about anybody in the league right now, which I think will make it a really exciting series.

100%.

Our girl Sika Kone from Atlanta, she made history with Molly.

They upset Spain.

Wow.

Neither does Atlanta, by the way.

Uh, but Atlanta just had lots of, uh, they had more bodies to throw at it, and Medina didn't even play, right? Uh, Sika Kone didn't even play.

Uh, but it was Dewanna Bonner and her impact on the bench that was huge.

And that's where this, this, uh, New York Liberty team, I, I worry about it.

So there were four dream players in the tournament, two of them playing for the USA team.

Did you notice anything in particular about the play of Ryan Howard or Angel Reese? Or if you watched any of the Molly or the Australia teams play, Sika Kone and Isabel Borlase, did anything stand out from you about those dream players?

So I'll start with the dream bench a little bit.

I think the way Sika Kone played is just a reminder that the end of a WNBA bench is still all world, right? She was terrific for Molly and it was really exciting for them to get a huge, huge win against Spain.

For Borlase, it was tough for Australia just being down so many injured players.

It's much harder to evaluate, you know, what do you do in that situation as a team? But she obviously stepped it up.

So just to jump in.

So some stats that I pulled earlier.

Brianna Jones.

Sika Kone.

india navar ali and i who just got signed um medina occult tina pop out and angel reese

it's actually insane because really they have one oh gosh they have one two three four five sika was there last year right let me see she was yeah she was there briefly last year i think she was on the bench for a while

The leading scorer of this competition at 20.5 points a game is Jenna Banjai, who we didn't even talk about, number 50 for Mali, who had just an amazing performance.

Then second is Sika Kone.

And third is something...

Amy Okonkwo?