Caps ($1.57) vs Flames ($2.25) tips off in a few minutes on YouTube

For anyone who's not digging the Taipans-Kings game, in the WNBL the last-placed Adelaide Lightning host first-placed Dandenong in a few minutes.
Should be a ... game of basketball

^ coaching it has to be, plus player selection, it gets worse all the time for boomers, they were better off with Chante Black by the looks of things.

I heard they don't get much developement at training, lots of standing around, so possibly bit harsh to throw them in at the deep end, but then you could always look at it as they may not do any worse and at least they are getting experience.
Tough one to choose, but think it's fair to say they probably should be looking at the coaching area, they are the ones who select and train these players.

Having only been following through live stats as I couldn't find a stream, so this may be wrong, but the foul count did seem very lopsided - are the Townsville refs known for this? I mean as there was no stream I couldn't see if the fouls called were overly soft or if they were mostly legitimate, but regardless, not exactly a good look to get a coach tech. Can't help but think their issues lie more in the coaching department rather than the players judging by the contrast between their captain and coach's press conference words last week and just their general actions.

Congrats to the Rangers. Gave the Lynx a lesson in smart team basketball today and move into clear first place after that big win.

Lightning play the Boomers on the 7th of January. Might even be a chance of winning that one.

Haha, yeah both teams will have that one circled on the calendar. My sympathies to whoever loses that one.

Very much looking forward to looking at the Lynx/Rangers game whenever it gets uploaded to the 7 app! The Rangers certainly have been playing some great ball recently.

@ Anonymous - Can say that again! Suzy is just a beast, and she doesn't look like slowing down anytime soon (great for the league, but unfortunate for every other team out there!)

Ahh the Lightning/Boomers game could shape up to be a tight one if neither team gets some form up before then.Just as a bit of a side note I'm quite excited to see how Maley goes up in Adelaide, hopefully she can get some good minutes and development into her.

Cumming, Novosel and Todhunter are all quality perimeter defenders and they did a great job on Sami. I had a feeling that this was coming today because she has been getting hyped up way too much this past week, and I think it contributed to her trying too hard today to shoulder the scoring load. I also thought the Lynx did a poor job of exploiting the mismatches that Hamblin had in the paint (she still had a good game, but could have been better if the team had helped her out), and the Rangers did a way better job with their defensive scout than we did.

Melb fan I think your right re the coaching issues. Watching the negativity from Molloy if that's what he's bringing to his players no wonder they are struggling to win, can't believe he said they are becoming experts at loosing.
Kunek obviously unhappy with the lack of belief from her coach.

And yes they have resigned him for a further 3 yrs.......not looking good for the boomers right now.

Rangers on the other hand keep building, even when they have had a bad game you watch Andersons post match interviews and she's full of belief that her girls can do it.

Two very very different approaches to coaching that's for sure.

Larissa has impressed me from day 1 in the WNBL. And yeah - the coach-team dynamic could hardly be more different between the 2 Melbourne teams.

Very true Rangers have a full depth bench that would probably beat boomers starters , lespecially when the moral for boomers seems so low
You watch those ranger girls in their videos in the background when they think cameras can't see the great chemistry is very obvious compared to boomers who as someone else said it all just looks staged
They do a fantastic job of promoting the club but like reality TV it's never what it seems

Hopefully they can turn things round for next year .
Would their be an out clause in molloys contract?

I'm 99% positive that Kunek is the only one who has started each game for the boomers this season. As someone mentioned earlier, I have no clue why Smart and Cole were coming off the bench - especially when if I had to pick a guard to start on the bench it'd be Garrick based purely on the fact her shooting and scoring output doesn't seem to have been the same standard as it was before she injured her shoulder. But that lack of a consistent lineup probably doesn't do much to help chemistry whereas for the rest of the other teams you could comfortably know their starters before they're announced (barring injuries of course).

Has anyone found the Lynx/Rangers game up anywhere yet for those outside WA? I've downloaded the plus7 app and haven't found it yet.

Is the Lynx vs Rangers game anywhere on apps/etc yet?

Yep, it's up on "plus7"

https://au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/wnbl/-/watch/33496235/wnbl-sun-11-dec-perth-lynx-v-dandenong-rangers/

Just finished watching the game up on 7.. Very impressive performance by the Rangers in all aspects of the game. The Lynx looked like they were rushing their shots all day, so great defence by Dandenong. I hope that 7 can keep showing the Lynx games for the rest of the season as their coverage I thought was great.

Wasn't Joyce commentating was it hahaha