Ball Up Top: A Women’s Basketball Podcast
Aug 13, 2026 · 1 hr · 13 segments
This week on Ball Up Top, Chauny and Tyler go through the entire WNBA Playoff field and give their thoughts on who are the true contenders vs who is simply pretending at this point in the WNBA season!…
Tyler DeLucaHostChaunyHostWe have a thought exercise, NCS thought exercise.
Contender or pretender?
So let's go through currently the eight teams and see how we feel about them.
First up-
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Contender or pretender?
For sure.
They're, they're, are, they're only behind the Fever offense in terms of how great their offense has been, and the Fever offense is, like, literally the greatest offense that the WNBA's [laughs] ever seen statistically.
So, like, that, there's that standard there, and they're also one of the best defenses in this playoff field, and can be the best defense in the W on a, the, the, on the right night.
Yeah
they also did not have Napheesa Collier for however long [laughs] of this season.
They can't keep getting away with this.
We have a thought exercise, NCS thought exercise.
Contender or pretender?
So let's go through currently the eight teams and see how we feel about them.
First up-
...
Contender or pretender?
For sure.
They're, they're, are, they're only behind the Fever offense in terms of how great their offense has been, and the Fever offense is, like, literally the greatest offense that the WNBA's [laughs] ever seen statistically.
So, like, that, there's that standard there, and they're also one of the best defenses in this playoff field, and can be the best defense in the W on a, the, the, on the right night.
Yeah
they also did not have Napheesa Collier for however long [laughs] of this season.
They can't keep getting away with this.
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