NWLATigerFan12

To me, the salary cap is the biggest issue of all. You have a “soft cap” of around 150 million. And then some teams have a salary of over 200 million. So naturally the teams willing to pay the luxury tax are going to have better players and therefore win. The teams sitting under the cap will continue to lose.


League needs to go to a hard cap of say 150 million. 15 roster spots, average 10 million per player. If you want to sign three superstars worth 30-40 million each, you were gonna have absolutely nothing around them. No more letting all the stars just team up on the big markets. Make teams develop rosters of role players around their one or two stars.

Then take the non playoff teams and give them the exact same odds to get picks 1-8, then the play in teams who didn’t make it, then the playoff teams go in order like it is currently.

No more trading draft picks that are further out than 1-2 years. Don’t let teams rent away their future 6 years from now then just figure it out later. No more protected picks to discourage teams from tanking to save their pick they traded away on a whim.

Drop about 10-12 games off the schedule and make sure there is never a back to back game. Get rid of load management and sitting uninjured players.



There are ways to fix the issue if the NBA really wants it fixed.

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I think you're confusing hate with deserved criticism. She disappeared in the 2nd half. Your best players need to show up in games like this and she didn't

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What I’m getting at is…it’s happened one time and people act like it’s been the reason we lost all 4 games. When she’s been easily our best and most consistent player.

Flaujae and Fulwiley feast on bad teams or when good teams get sloppy and let them out in transition. When the other team is better or cleans the game up, they disappear. Richard is a very small guard and can’t get to the basket on her own, so she has to be hitting shots, which she hasn’t for the last several games. MW is the one player who has been able to make it work against pretty much every team.

Some of you people have mind boggling takes. She had a rough 2nd half but I’ve seen an unbelievable amount of comments saying she was supposed to be an All American and has regressed, is fat and out of shape, is a choker and disappears in big moments, can’t play defense, etc. Let’s check some numbers compared to the other upper classmen on the team, as I don’t expect the freshmen to always play consistent ball…

In conference play only, Mikaylah leads the entire team in minutes played, points, 3pt %, and assists, and leads all the guards in shooting percentage and rebounds.

Mikaylah could probably go out and drop 20-30 points every single game, but she doesn’t take the shot volume to do that. Shes not even top 20 in the conference in shots taken yet she’s our leading scorer in conference. There’s alot of mouths to feed on this team. A lot of talented players that want their shots. Especially in the blowout games against weaker teams when the young girls are getting lots of minutes. She is not at all a point guard, but the offense almost always ends up being ran through her even though we have 2 point guards with tons of minutes and at least 1 is always on the floor with her.


Here’s some numbers from the ranked games:

UK loss…MW 26/8/5 on 17 shots. Flaujae 15/1/2, Richard 14/3/2, Joyner 14/5/0, Fulwiley 2/1/1, Koval 2/2/0.

Vandy loss…MW 12/8/6 on 11 shots. Flaujae 0/3/1, Fulwiley 13/7/6, Joyner 4/5/0, Richard 13/2/1, Koval 9/10/0.

Texas win…MW 20/7/4 on 13 shots while also defending Booker all game. Flaujae 10/6/2, Richard 10/1/2, Fulwiley 10/1/2, Joyner 6/9/2, Koval 0/1/0.

OU win…MW 10/6/5 on 8 shots. Flaujae 21/10/3, Richard 21/5/3, Fulwiley 12/6/2, Joyner 0/4/0, Koval 9/7/2.

Alabama win…MW 15/4/5 on 11 shots. Flaujae 9/1/3, Richard 16/4/4, Fulwiley 10/3/4, Joyner 9/4/2, Koval 8/9/0.

Texas loss…MW 20/2/1 on 11 shots while holding Booker to her worst game of the year. Flaujae 11/7/4, Richard 2/0/3, Fulwiley 9/2/5, Joyner 5/2/0, Koval 4/4/0.

South Carolina loss…her worst big game. MW 11/3/2. Flaujae 21/8/1, Richard 7/2/3, Fulwiley 6/4/3, Joyner 8/13/1, Koval 2/1/0.

Duke win (only non conference ranked game)…MW 14/3/7. Flaujae 18/5/3, Richard 6/2/2, Fulwiley 16/5/3, Joyner 14/5/0, Koval 13/4/2.



It looks like until tonight, she’s been the only player on the team that showed up for annd had ann impact on every big game. Fulwiley or Richard or both have been bad for nearly every loss. Flaujae has had games where she disappeared for big chunks of the game. Koval and Joyner are terribly inconsistent.

Fulwiley and Flaujae are both top 10 in the conference in shots taken…Mikaylah isn’t even top 20.

Mikaylah is almost always matched up on the other teams biggest guard…usually gives up a few inches to them because she’s just 6’ and often guarding girls that are 6’2-6’4. Flaujae/Richard/Fulwiley/Hines are all 5’10” and shorter so they can’t guard those types of players.


Just trying to find where the justification for all the hate is, other than she’s built a little stockier than these other guards (which heavily feeds into her play style btw, as she uses her body incredibly well on offense).

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Definitely over rated…a good role player at best and a liability on defense Have said it all yr

I agree , she seems lazy on defense

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I’ve found her defense to be up and down based on matchup. She doesn’t do well against the small quick guards. Against Texas she held Booker to her worst game of the season. She wasn’t the one guarding either of the Johnson’s who scored all the points.

Mikaylah just had a bad 2nd half. She was 4/6 9 points in the first. Shes still one of the best players in the country and without her isolation shooting and playmaking in the half court, our offense would be putrid.

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lol at all the attempted bank shots.

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Thing is…none of them are attempted bank shots. They’re literally missing the shot by 2-3 feet :lol:

Miss 2 straight with a chance to take the lead with under a minute to play. Son of a bitch

We’ve missed about 10 FTs

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I thought Jada Richard could shoot

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She’s on a 2-3 game slide of shooting the ball terribly. She’s 1/6 right now. The other supposed to be shooter Fulwiley is 1/5.

None of Mikayla, Flaujae, or Z Johnson scored a point that whole quarter.

Better have the best 4th we’ve had all year here or SC gonna run away with it.

Same story with the other losses LSU has had so far. Other teams killing us with the 3 ball and we can’t shoot well enough to keep up, we turn the ball over too much, and our bigs just aren’t good enough to dominate down low to make up for the lack of shooting.

Any time we play less talented teams where we can force 20 turnovers and get out in transition a ton, we are good. Any team that stops us from getting transition looks…gonna be tough.

Long story short, Flaujae, Fulwiley, and Richard didn’t show up tonight. Combined 8/33 for 22 points and 9 rebounds, 11 turnovers.

Texas big girls went for 27 on 9/14 shooting and 18 rebounds. LSU big girls go 20pts on 9/15 and 19 rebounds. Mostly matched them with our young group of big girls.

Booker honestly had a bad night tonight. MK was doing a good job on her defensively. 6/21 18pts is nothing for her. MK had 20 on 7/11.

Mulkey offense is and always has been a pure PG and paint/big girl dominated offense. She’s never been one to run a lot of complicated motion sets or anything, going back to her days at Baylor with Griner or when we won the ship.

We don’t have a big girl who can play back to basket and dominate like that and our guards are terrible tonight.