Seattle Storm Are Building Something Special, But Late Losses Have to Stop
NOTE: This episode was recorded LIVE on July 17th
Three-game losing streak. Close games. Same late-game breakdowns. Storm faithful know this feeling — and Erica and Roberta aren't sugarcoating it.
On this episode of Tempestade Talk, the crew breaks down back-to-back losses to the Washington Mystics and Chicago Sky, pulls the tape on the fourth-quarter collapse patterns, and asks the hard question: is this a young team learning, or is there something deeper going wrong?
What we get into:
- 0:00 — "Uh-Oh, Here We Go Again?" — Storm on a 3-Game Skid
- 1:25 — Game Recap: What Went Wrong vs. Washington & Chicago
- 7:36 — The Lead Tracker Doesn't Lie — Storm Never Had Control
- 10:13 — Sonia, Flau'jae & Awa Speak After the Loss
- 10:31 — A Three-Game Losing Streak. We've Seen This Before.
- 13:39 — Is Flau'jae the Leader of This Team Now?
- 16:30 — Sonia's "Next Play" Mentality — Is It Working?
- 17:54 — Free Throws, Turnovers & the Late-Game Collapse Pattern
- 45:41 — Fourth Quarter: Jeff & Optimus Prime Take the Wheel
- 1:00:49 — The Skylar Diggins Accountability Conversation
- 1:04:42 — Will the Storm Trade Ezi Before the Deadline?
- 1:06:40 — That Chicago Defense Was ROUGH (And We Said It)
- 1:26:03 — Rekia Talked to Dom After the Game — She Wants to Be a Storm
- 1:27:40 — BRM Is Going to All-Star Weekend 🌩️
- 1:38:22 — "If Flau'jae Ain't Got a Problem, I Ain't Got a Problem Either"
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Erica L. Ayala
Multimedia Sports Journalist | 🏀 #WNBA Awards & HoopHall Lieberman Award Voter | 🎙️ Podcast Host: 🐙Locked on Kraken, 🗽Gotta Get Up (NY Liberty) & 🌩️ Tempestade Talk (SEA Storm)BA, Elon U. | MPA, NYU Founder of 💪🏾 @blackrosiemedia.bsky.social
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Roberta Rodrigues
Brazilian-American. Multimedia women’s basketball journalist since 2008. Founder of the first WBB news portal in Latin America. Credenciada pela #WNBA.📍Seattle
