Originally Posted by
BUZDAWG
Fan, I don't think that report was all that unbiased. Detroit has big strong bodies and they are forceful in their play. Other teams seem to want to out muscle them and that is why Detroit games always seem so physical. It is like the other teams want to show they are just as tough as Detroit, but they really don't do it as well. I see more pushing and shoving coming from the other teams than I do Detroit. I will add that I watch a lot of WNBA games so I get to see this routinely. Because they are physical, and Laimbeer is their coach, they get tagged with this "Bad Girls" identification. In truth they are quite skillful. Leslie and D Nasty have always been two of the roughest players in the league and are much more deserving of the Bad Girls name IMO. Parker is a rookie who commands a lot of attention and has a ton of expectations placed on her. That has to be a lot of pressure.
While I would not want to mess with Pierson, she is a great player who plays with a lot of focus. Who cares what she did as a sophmore in college. And trying to insinuate she had a problen with Taurasi is almost funny. Taurasi has one of the worst tempers I have seen in the league and plays extremely rough. All in all I think this dust up makes for good news, but doesn't amount to much, and certainly doesn't need to be over analyzed. The worst is having Cheryl injured again.