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WNBA Basketball 2009 Prior Picks

2009-2009 WNBA Basketball Recent Results
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October 2009
10/07/2009  The Phoenix Mercury find themselves down 2-1 in this series, and they are trying to prove that you can win playoff games with offense, and that hasn&#...View all
10/04/2009  This has all the makings of a close series and game, given how the series has gone thus far. Indiana stole one in Phoenix, giving them a big advantage...View all

September 2009
09/29/2009  There is a decided home-court advantage in the WNBA that shows home favorites win 66% of all games. So what becomes the matter of importance here is i...View all
09/26/2009  I have been dead on in the first two games between these clubs. I liked Phoenix in game one and Los Angeles in game two. I am going back to the Mercur...View all
09/25/2009  As you know, I was on the Mercury big in game one of this match-up on the road. I couldn't see why they were getting points. Turns out they didn&#...View all
09/23/2009  This should be a great series with the winner advancing to the Finals. Indiana is the top seed, coming in at 24-12. They dispatched of Washington in t...View all
09/20/2009  The Storm escaped elimination in the closing seconds of the game on Friday night. Sue Bird's three-pointer with 10.7 seconds left, followed by a s...View all
09/18/2009  The Atlanta Dream has made great strides. Here they are after a four-win season last year, in the post season against last year's champs the Detro...View all
09/17/2009  The Indiana Fever went through a period of the season where they went 19-3 and basically iced their position atop the WNBA East very early, while most...View all
09/16/2009  The Seattle Storm will open the WNBA Playoffs in Los Angeles. The Storm finished their second straight year with 20 wins or more. These teams are very...View all
09/13/2009  Connecticut is just 4-12 on the road, but don't mess with this team at home. Here at home they are 11-5. That's the reason they are favored ov...View all
09/12/2009  This looks like a fishy line with the Atlanta Dream at 18-15 and the Washington Mystics at 15-17. The Dream's work is done, as they will be in the...View all
09/11/2009  The Connecticut Sun have looked horrible down the stretch. Just when they had a chance to make a run they faltered. They have had their moments early ...View all
09/10/2009  The Detroit Shock cut down the nets last year as WNBA Champs, and with a 9-14 mark almost 2/3 of the way through the season, this team seemed dead in ...View all
09/09/2009  The Minnesota Lynx endured a 1-9 stretch and, for a team that lost their best player early on, slumping badly heading down the stretch could of made i...View all
09/08/2009  This was supposed to be a game with huge playoff and division implications, but it won't be as these teams have both had disappointing seasons. Th...View all
09/06/2009  Both of these teams have a chance to make it to the playoffs if they keep winning. The Shock have beaten the top two teams in the league in back-to-ba...View all
09/05/2009  The Seattle Storm appears headed to the playoffs coming in here at 19-12. They have been an ultra dominate home team the past couple years where they ...View all
09/04/2009  The Connecticut Sun will have a good chance to stop the bleeding tonight at home vs. the last place New York Liberty. The Sun have dropped five straig...View all
09/03/2009  The Washington Mystics are still in the chase for the playoffs in the WNBA East, and that is due in part, to their 9-6 home mark on the season. Seattl...View all
09/01/2009  This has been a disappointing season for last year's WNBA Champions. They battled injuries early and just never got over the top, but the talent i...View all

August 2009
08/30/2009  Chicago beat New York by 19 points on Friday night. I really like the Liberty to exact some revenge here at home, after that embarrassing loss. Heck, ...View all
08/29/2009  It has been a year of frustration for both of these teams, as both expected to contend again have failed. There is one very big factor at work here an...View all
08/28/2009  A season that started with so much promise for the Lynx has turned disastrous. They have dropped their last six games and nine of their last 10. It ha...View all
08/27/2009  While neither of these teams aren't the caliber they were a year ago, they are both good candidates to make the playoffs, so this one should be pl...View all
08/25/2009  The Detroit Shock are a long way from where they finished a year ago, cutting down the nets and claiming a WNBA Championship. This team has battl...View all
08/22/2009  The Detroit Shock has certainly been disappointing this season. After a WNBA Championship, they were expected to contend again. Injuries took their to...View all
08/21/2009  The LA Sparks have had a very disappointing season. They were supposed to be in the hunt for the WNBA Title, but won't be in the playoffs. They ha...View all
08/20/2009  You don't have to look too far to see why this Sacramento team has struggled this season. They have had trouble on offense as they have been held ...View all
08/19/2009  There were high hopes in LA that this Sparks team would be hanging a WNBA Championship banner at the conclusion of the season, but those thoughts are ...View all
08/18/2009  The Seattle Storm has dropped six straight games ATS, but remain a top team in the league. I expect them to bring their "A" game to Detroit ...View all
08/16/2009  Washington is definitely the better team and playing at home. But, the Mystics allow 78 points per game (nearly 84 per game over their last ...View all
08/15/2009  The Storm has dropped six straight games to the spread, but remain one of the top teams in the WNBA. They enter this one with a 13-10 mark, and certai...View all
08/14/2009  The Sky has been a no-show on the road this season as they have just three wins to show for 13 games. That is not a new trend for this team. The Sky h...View all
08/13/2009  Neither of these teams resembles what they were a year ago, and has fallen short of expectations. Last year, these teams combined for a 43-25 mark, an...View all
08/11/2009  When you compare these teams from what they were a year ago, there are no similarities. The Mystics were losing their last nine games, and last six at...View all
08/10/2009  It has been a much less successful season for the Los Angeles Sparks. A good reason is the heavily weighted road schedule they have played, and also m...View all
08/09/2009  The team with the worse record here is favored by five points. And I don't think it's enough. This is a big revenge situation. On June 6,...View all
08/08/2009  I think it is time for the oddsmakers to make a different evaluation of this Seattle team. Gone is the defensive stalwart that ruled the day a season ...View all
08/07/2009  These teams have turned in completely different directions from a year ago. The Shock was sitting atop the East, while the Mystics endured a painfully...View all
08/06/2009  The Seattle Storm is certainly not the team they put on the court a year ago. This team has shown to have many more defensive lapses, or lack of commi...View all
08/04/2009  The Los Angeles Sparks and the San Antonio Silver Spurs are definitely not the teams that were expected to be battling it out for the Western Conferen...View all
08/02/2009  This line has gotten inflated due to the fact that both of these teams have gone 4-1 OVER in their last five games. But the fact remains that very few...View all
08/01/2009  New York has had it so bad that they fired their coach, Pat Coyle. Anne Donovan takes over here. They begin a road trip which I think will be healthy ...View all

July 2009
07/30/2009  The Liberty should have all their focus for this one as they suffered a heartbreaking one-point loss in Washington less than two weeks ago. The Libert...View all
07/28/2009  The Indiana Fever has looked like the team to beat in the WNBA this season, as they are 12-2 after an 0-2 start. The Washington Mystics are an improve...View all
07/26/2009  When a team starts as poorly as Sacramento did (3-14), there comes a time when they become a team to back. The oddsmakers start shading the lines, giv...View all
07/23/2009  The Indiana Fever have been the biggest surprise in the WNBA as we head to the midpoint of the season. They enter here with a mark of 12-3, and will f...View all
07/22/2009  The Detroit Shock have been a front runner in the WNBA East for a few years now, but this team has suffered losses that are showing up in the win loss...View all
07/21/2009  Sometimes a team is under the radar to start the season, only to emerge as a top team in the sport. We saw that in MLB last year with the Tampa Bay Ra...View all
07/19/2009  When these teams met earlier this month, 157 points were scored. The total in that game was 140 so the oddsmakers have made a big adjustment here. But...View all
07/18/2009  This league has changed considerably over the last four years as you can go back just to 2005 and find that just two teams were able to average 70 poi...View all
07/17/2009  Two teams that have made quantum leaps forward square off in Indiana as the Atlanta Dream are in town to face the Fever. The Fever, after an 0-2 start...View all
07/15/2009  What a difference a year makes. San Antonio was the best team a year ago in the regular season finishing with a 24-10 mark, while Washington limped ou...View all
07/14/2009  The Sparks again have the services of last year's all-everything Candace Parker, but it is pretty clear she isn't ready at this stage to provi...View all
07/11/2009  The Detroit Shock has not been up to the standard that they have been in the recent past. But there is talent here and they are getting healthier as B...View all
07/10/2009  The San Antonio Silver Stars are still being treated like they are last year's team that proceeded to have the best record in the WNBA at 24-10, a...View all
07/09/2009  The LA Sparks and the New York Liberty will square off in New York tonight, and thus far both teams have struggled to identical 3-6 marks in the early...View all
07/08/2009  The Phoenix Mercury can score as well as any WNBA team in the league’s short history. They will always gather a following regardless of the pric...View all
07/07/2009  The Washington Mystics are a vastly-improved team from a year ago, as indicated by their 5-4 record after stumbling to a 10-24 mark a year ago. The My...View all
07/05/2009  Detroit has certainly struggled this year but in certain spots this is a good team to back. We were on them a week ago today when they got their first...View all
07/03/2009  The Atlanta Dream has already exceeded last year's home win total with three, and have equaled last year's total wins. The Dream is getting po...View all
07/02/2009  Two of the hottest teams in the WNBA collide tonight in Indiana, as the Connecticut Sun will be in to play the Fever. The Fever is a much-improved tea...View all
07/01/2009  The Phoenix Mercury are a much improved team over a year ago and that has given them a distinct homecourt advantage as they have compiled a 5-1 record...View all

June 2009
06/30/2009  Atlanta has already won as many games as they did all of last season, and is one of the most improved teams in the WNBA. The same could be said for Mi...View all
06/28/2009  It was a bad start to the season for the defending champs. Tonight they get Kara Braxton back, and they also get the worst team in the league - the Sa...View all
06/27/2009  This is a much-improved Atlanta team, but on the road they have just three wins in their WNBA franchise history. One of those wins was their only road...View all
06/26/2009  Things have certainly changed from a year ago. It took the Atlanta Dream all season to win four games a year ago and have already won three this seaso...View all
06/23/2009  There is no doubt the Atlanta Dream is an improved team as they stand at 3-3 on the season and are already 2-1 at home. It took the Dream 22 games to ...View all
06/21/2009  Atlanta goes for their third straight win - something they have surprisingly never done. If they get it, they would actually match their win total fro...View all
06/20/2009  These teams are both coming off of losses last night, and back-to-back games could find the defenses a bit lax here. These are changed teams from a ye...View all
06/19/2009  The Chicago Sky is off to their best start in franchise history, mostly do to a favorable early schedule. The Sky has finished as a sub-.500 team in a...View all
06/17/2009  The two most exciting teams in the WNBA square off in Phoenix tonight, that is if you like high octane offense. Phoenix comes in averaging a WNBA best...View all
06/16/2009  The Minnesota Lynx are off and running to start the WNBA season as they enter this game at 3-1. Off and running might be the best way to describe this...View all
06/13/2009  Sometimes you have to take a look at what is happening around the game. Phoenix went to Sacramento last night and got blown out of the building. So th...View all
06/12/2009  The Minnesota Lynx have come out smoking at 3-0, and have caught teams by surprise with their up-tempo offense. It has, however, been producing less p...View all
06/10/2009  The Minnesota Lynx have had their way with their first two opponents, but being it was against Chicago and Indiana, the competition level takes a shar...View all
06/09/2009  The Indiana Fever is off to a slow start at 0-2, while Seattle enters this game at 2-0. Seattle has been a team that is nearly impossible to beat at h...View all
06/08/2009  The Detroit Shock was blown out in their opener in Los Angeles, and it isn't too often that you get another shot against the same team in your nex...View all
06/07/2009  Seimone Augustus is the only returning player from the 2007 Lynx team as this team has gone through wholesale changes. We were on the OVER in their op...View all
06/06/2009  The Connecticut Sun will open at home against the Washington Mystics. The Sun has had a lot of success in this league, and has won the East in four of...View all

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