Valkyries Ticket Exchange Thread

(reposted with better title). Assuming we're 2 seed. Which of the teams currently 4-8 would be the toughest matchup in the first round? BTW, I hate that it's a 3 game series.

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spotted on Franklin

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Unexpected crossover! Violet is getting out during the FIBA break too. Maybe Ellie, Skye, and Violet are a package deal? The irony is that the Mets are playing the SF Giants and Lou Seal isn't there for this.

Update: Italy came in 3rd in Group D, and will play Australia next, the #2 from group C.

Tldr: Italy seems likely to face Australia or Belgium in qualifying round if they survive Group D by coming in 3rd. In rare chance they beat China, then Puerto Rico or Turkiye are more likely, giving them a better chance of getting farther.

Love Zandalasini, so was researching how far she and Italy can go.

Italy's victory over Czechia yesterday, historic, gives them a chance to come in 2nd or 3rd in group D (US, Italy, China, Czechia.) (1st near impossible would mean they'd have to essentially win every game).

1st place in each group automatically advances. Before entering the final bracket there's single elimination qualifying rounds. For example, the 2nd team in Group D plays the 3rd in Group C. And 3rd in D plays 2nd in C.

I'm writing about Italy because France (Ja and Gabby) and USA (Nakase) will almost certainly get first and advance.

4th place is eliminated.

How Italy Survives group D

The most likely path: Czechia loses against China and USA. Italy comes in 3rd with one win and 2 losses (to US and China). This seems likely.

There is another path, where Czechia beats China, but I haven't mapped that out, feel free to fill me in.

Path to second?

Italy is extremely unlikely to beat the US on Sunday. So one path to second would require beating China on Tuesday.

I'm unsure if there are other paths.

So who would Italy play from Group C?

Italy is most likely to come in 3rd, and play the #2 team in Group C.

C is Australia, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Turkey.

Assuming Italy comes in 3rd and plays C #2, it seems likely to be Belgium or Australia.

Australia is 3rd in the world, Belgium is 5th, Italy is 14th.

The benefits of coming in 2nd

Though its unlikely, if Italy can beat China, they'd likely play Puerto Rico, 13th in the world, or Turkiye, 16th in the world. So winning Tuesday increases their chances of going further.

(There's also paths with point differentials but that seems unlikely to come up for Group D)

What do you predict?

Go Italia!!! Go Chechi! (or is it just written Ceci?)

I hope she joins the team during training camp next year.

What y'all thoughts are on Natalie providing Intel on her Valkyries players to the fellow USA assistant coaches/team.

I truly believe Natalie to total professional and she is representing team USA and she absolutely wants team USA to win....but I wonder if there's a part of her that doesn't want to give away all of the secrets of Ceci or Gabby or Ja to Nate and Steph and players that she will inevitably be playing in the playoffs.

I'm sure that has to be kind of difficult for her to manage.

I know that she would not have been chosen if Sue and Kara had any worries about her ability to separate the two.

But I mean as a human and a proud coach of the Valkyries there has to be a part of her that is feeling weird right?!

I'm just curious what everyone is thinking about that.

I hope this post is allowed because I am a true W fan and a Valkyries follower this season (been a big VB, Kiah, and Gabby fan since their former teams). I was careful not to post until the FIBA window so as not to distract from W season content in this sub.

I purchased this jersey on a great clearance sale on Fanatics when GSV changed their jersey style this season. It’s an XL Size 52 and was advertised as unisex but has womens tags. I’m a 30sM and it looks similar to other W jerseys I have and wear. Fanatics is a headache to begin with and the shipping took forever, so rather than deal with their return/exchange process, I’d love to cut out the middle man and get this to another fan that would appreciate it.

Please DM if you are interested. Again, I’m mostly interested in a smooth process since I struck gold on the original deal.

The Valkyries were the first WNBA games I ever watched. I'm Lithuanian and started following because of Justė, but I stayed for the whole season.
Congratulations on a great year!

Quick context: my wife and I have been building an online basketball manager game for 18 years. Fictional players and teams, you handle the roster, training, tactics, transfers. Not linking it, that's not what this post is about.

I keep wondering if it makes sense to add a women's league or a women's mode. Every management game I know is men's only, and I have no idea if that's because nobody wants it or because nobody has tried.

Curious what you think. Is that something you'd play, and if not, why not?

Edit: Final 99-57.

For the total slaughter of the Hungarian women's team. 3Q 66-24, and they're so serious - playing like it's the finals. The superior physicality and speed of the French team is impressive.

The crowd though - so quiet. We need a Ballhalla scale to rank the crowd support.

Ceci and the Italian women also played great, won their first match.

Lynx coach is -900 and Nakase is +700 heading into the final stretch of the season. Even though maybe the Lynx should be slight favourites why isn’t it closer? The GS Valkyries have far less talent than the Lynx and have maybe outperformed their preseason expectations more than the Lynx.

The last few games if the Lynx drop a few more games and the Valkyrie who have far easier opponents narrow the wins lead even more, could Nakase pull the award off?

What yall think?

Anyone has any ideas what this could be referencing? Could be playoff related based on the opening text saying Playoffs are calling…

It looks like a two tone diaper from afar. Why did they do this to them?

Hi coach! 💜

An excellent showing from the rising Japanese star and Valkyries 2026 third rounder!

18 points, 7 assists on 58% shooting.

Just a walking down the street, wearing my Valkyries sweatshirt, when a woman pulled up along side me, unrolled her window, and yelled “Let go, Valkyries!”

I shouted something like, “you know it” and skipped the rest of the way home. I love this team’s fans.

EDIT: sure would help if i included the link to the main page
https://anyasabo.github.io/fiba/

I tried posting this in the w sub the other day but they did not like me using a new throwaway for it. Anyway! It can be just for us.

I wanted to see

* which national teams w players were on (and vice versa)

* what time the games were

* how can i watch them

* how can i add them to my calendar

That information was spread throughout a bunch of places. It annoyed me that this didn't exist already. So a clanker did some massaging for me and I am posting it in case it makes anyone else's lives easier.

If you use a google calendar you can import the events into your calendar from Settings > Add Calendar > From URL (direct link

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/settings/addbyurl )

and enter https://anyasabo.github.io/fiba/fiba.ics

Which will auto update in your calendar whenever teams advance / I actually update the info. It has the USA broadcast info in the calendar. You can see other countries on the website with the drop down though (pulled from FIBA).

Cautions:

* not all rosters are confirmed. you can see the roster list at FIBA here: https://www.fiba.basketball/en/events/fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026/news/roster-tracker-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026
and how some have only 12 and announcement links, and some haven't cut down yet.

* some game times are not set yet and have two potential slots at this point. The calendar event takes up both for now

* FIBA is not great with player names so some reconciliation had to happen

* go valks