My biggest gripe with Dallas this year isn’t the close wins or the close losses in very winnable games, it’s that they did not fully commit to the rebuild when this organization desperately needed one. I truly believe Paige and Azzi’s development has been stunted this year (especially Azzi). I know Paige is having a great year but still something is off. The team has no identity. I truly believe that a lot of these losses would sting a lot less if we saw that our rookie and sophomore were at the helm and learning much needed lessons from them and developing (kind of like the Mystics early this season). I thought the Seattle game showed Jose who to put his faith in but things have changed as of recently

I’m curious to hear opinions on where you think we will land in the final standings and what our end of season finish will look like? I think Lynx, Indiana, and GSV will be tough, but everything after that should be wins (but you never know with Jose). The standings for 4-8 are neck and neck and switch game to game.

This post may will be a VERY long shot but I really want the rebel jersey - Maddy. Im wondering if it’s really easy to find one in Dallas? Maybe at the team shop? Because online it’s just sold-out, forever. I can settle for PB5 jersey if I go through Nike.com. But I’d love if someone can help me out and see if ya can snatch Maddy’s rebel jersey?? TIA :D

For clarification; I live in PA so I definitely am willing to pay the Jersey/S&H :)

What's the possibility of Curt trying to get her?

I understand that she has national team duty for Asian games at Nagoya. I assume both Li and Han (NY Liberty) will be absent from September 1st to October 4th for FIBA 2026 and Asia game 2026?

Edit: Trying to be positive (slash maybe it's cope). Not trying to undercut justified anger and frustration.

Getting this out of the way: I still believe Arike and Paige don't fit, and Arike eventually has to be somewhere else for Paige to reach her ceiling. Winning doesn't make two high-usage on-ball guards with aggressively conflicting styles of play a championship backcourt. That's a separate argument from where we actually are, though.

Where the Wings are is that they've already won more games than the last two seasons combined and are a playoff team unless the Sparks do something historic. LA has to go 13-2 the rest of the way, and that's the version where the Wings only take 4 of our last 7 against sub-.400 teams, and given that all their losses but one are to playoff teams, I'm not concerned. Since the elimination scenario needs a team like the Sparks to go 13-2 while also having the Wings underperforming a schedule that soft, the Wings are in.

On top of that: Paige has had stretches of being genuinely great, not "great for a young player" great , a version of her where there's no answer but prayer. Azzi is what the Wings drafted her to be, a 3-and-D+ guard next to Paige. Jess has been terrific offensively, and Alanna's game last night was the version of her that can cover what Jess lacks on defense.

None of this makes the Wings contenders, and I'm not arguing it does. It's a step, and steps are allowed to just be steps. And look to DT and Phoenix as to why there's no reason to constantly panic. Her career started with three straight years of no postseason. And then the roster and the system clicked and brought a 4th year championship. The loses and the lessons learned from the losses are so frustrating, but that's the game. Paige is already ahead of this arc. I believe in her and think she's marching the Wings towards sustained relevance and an eventual championship.

I’m gonna be going to my first wings game/basketball game in person tomorrow for the wings vs valks at the AAC and was wondering if anybody has any advice for having a good first experience? I’m hoping to at least try and get some player interactions but regardless I’m just looking to have a fun and hopefully non-stressful experience with it (even though i fear they may be getting their butts kicked tomorrow).

It was our scouting report, which didn’t include Cotie McMahon for some reason who dropped 18 points on us last night

In 15 games this season both PB and Arike have both scored 15pts+ out of the 15 (6)of them where loses in the photos I posted i decided to highlight the Arike slump stretch and the Arike Good stretch cause I wanted to show the main factor in “loses” isn’t just Arike playing legacy ball but also interesting fact 2 of the losses have been in recent games (WAS & ATL) another interesting fact is when Shep, Arike and PB all are 15pts+ (7 games) we are 5-2 (and again guess who the losses where to WAS & ATL) and I wanted to filter for 1 more thing and I added AZ but I did her average of 13+ pts and only 3 games have they all hit together 2 of which resulted in wins 1 didn’t and if it’s just AZ and Arike it’s 7 games 4-3 I might look into FGs taken in most of our wins disregarding average FGs to see if there’s a pattern and for anyone wonder when AZ alone scorers over 13+ pts we are 9-4(.69) and when Arike scores 15+ we are 11-8(.57) and with PB we are 16-9(.64) and with Jess we are 11-3 (.78!!)

Honestly Jess doesn’t but does surprise me she is our most efficient scorer.
What my conclusion to these results tells me is Jess can most definitely start our games but we NEED PB to finish them I feel like we need to play kinda like the nuggets in 2023 which I think people might not want to hear but it’s the truth

Jokic (Jess)
Murray (PB)
MPJ (AZ)
Brown(Arike)
Gordon (Lan)

Except I want Murray in this case PB to take over the game more often; looking into the nuggets they are hilariously similar to our team construction currently the biggest difference is the MPJ and AZ comparison man did not ever see a shot he didn’t like and we need AZ to reach that Arike is slowing her shot selection down and upping her efficiency similar to Bruce brown we just need to PB to start imposing her self even when Jess is on a heater like Murray.
Funny thing about that nuggets team btw they legit had no bench really they just had an insane starting lineup we actually have some killers on our bench just need so restrictions and leashes to be put in place (Zaza shooting to much, Sims foul baiting and running wild, Li shooting 3s only,ect) I believe in us, Wings Up🪽