Women's Hoops Blog

Inane commentary on a game that deserves far better


Sunday, June 03, 2007

Waterbury (Connnecticut) columnist Roger Cleaveland complains that the W hasn't made Diana as famous nationwide as she was famous in Connecticut while at UConn. Or is it Diana herself who's upset? The column makes it hard to tell.

Geno gets it right: "I think what she needs is to be given a certain amount of freedom on the basketball court. Yet at the same time you have to be able to rein her in a little bit. She is not unlike Michael Jordan his first couple years in the NBA, struggling to make the playoffs, struggling to find chemistry with the other kids on the team."

It looks as if Cleaveland (or his editor) saw the great feature on Diana's team overseas. (But no one expects the WNBA to treat its stars that way: certainly not Diana.)