WNBA Stars vs. USA Basketball roundup

posted by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 2:54pm PDT

Jayda Evans covers college and pro women's basketball. While its her first year on the Washington beat, she has covered the Storm since its inception. She'll offer observations, critiques, occasional off-beat tales and answers to select e-mail inquires. Evans also has written a book on the Storm and women's hoops, called "Game On!"

Training camp concludes Sunday for USA Basketball with a scrimmage against the Australians at Mohegan Sun Arena. But pool members like Cappie Pondexter and Sylvia Fowles (pictured right by the WNBA), who won the MVP trophy on Saturday, are already gone, facing each other in New York as the WNBA resumes the second-half of its schedule.

It was an interesting weekend, with obvious disparities between the WNBA Stars and USA Basketball teams. Of course that's good, because then the selection committee is on the right path to picking a team. But for viewers, it didn't seem like much revealing in the fun WNBA season or highlighting the league at all.

Here's what others thought about the game and the weekend:

Geno's team a work of art -- By Jeff Jacobs of The Hartford Courant

Big Syl too much -- By Ned Griffen of The (Connecticut) Day

Orender focusing on 12 current teams -- By Doug Feinberg of AP (In USA Today)

Lone college player blends in -- By Justin Verrier of ESPN.com

Fowles scores, USA wins -- By Vin A. Cherwoo of the Associated Press

Orender gets defensive -- By Matt Stout of The Norwich Bulletin

Reasons why UConn will dominate national team -- by Mike DiMauro of The Day

Former rivals buying into Geno's style -- By John Altavilla of The Hartford Courant

Auriemma (pictured right) has plenty of pressure -- By Dave Solomon of The Register Citizen

WNBA: Yesterday Once More -- By Mel Greenberg of Womhoops Guru

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