Anonymous
Years ago

Funny Erin Phillips signs with Suns

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UNCASVILLE, CT. The Connecticut Sun announced Monday it has signed Australian guard Erin Phillips.

"We're excited to finally have Erin with us," Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault said. "I think she is one of the best young point guards in the
world. This signing will give us the opportunity to play both her and Lindsay together. While young, I expect she will have a learning adjustment
period, but I expect her to be able to adjust at a fairly rapid pace."

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Phizzer
Years ago

Wow, "best young point guards in the world", big wraps.

Guess people will look back at those Nationals a few years ago when Brad and Erin dominated their respective comps and realise what they actually witnessed.....

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fellas tragic
Years ago

you bl******dy beauty

1 wnba title in the mail

they will ROCK!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Thats a HUGE wrap. cant wait to see her game improve even more. MY LORD!

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fellas tragic
Years ago

great PR for adelaide - all over sun website - with pics and link to fellas web page!

http://www.wnba.com/sun/

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Anonymous
Years ago

just great, she was basically the sole reason i watched the WNBL. She is a star and all the best to her.

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Anonymous
Years ago

me too! hopefully foxsports will cover some of her games.

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what the
Years ago

espn has a policy of putting aussie players on pacific broadcasts - that is why we get a high % of bucks games with bogut

if not wnba.com has free streaming - only good if you have broadband

sun.com has sun tv as well - games are broadcast live via comcast

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lisa
Years ago

Am so excited for this young player. She has so much a head of her and i think she will just improve from here..
Great move Erin!! I will be watching you and enjoying you dominate in the States! I know you'll do us proud!!! Go you little Aussie.

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Anon
Years ago

Does that mean she will not play any of the WNBL season? As Luara and Lauren and Tully do?

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fellas tragic
Years ago

coach t knows his trade and to say one of the best young pgs in the world is a wrap

that is putting her with, whalen, bird, tarausi, hammon etc

woah!

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anomymous
Years ago

Fantastic Erin, you deserve everthing that comes your way - good luck - all your hard work has paid off.
Jan Stirling's comments in the ADvertiser were unbecoming

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come to the party
Years ago

I support jan - but she is way out on the girls going state side - why hold them back - no way a season of abl will be better

look at laura - she was a gun before usa last year - but she has just cranked her game 200% after

jan wont push lauren or penny - cause they are likely to tell her to shove it - but jae signing with san antonio put her policy in ambiguous circumstances

why not negotiate a bit tell the girls to take a week off and come to a camp say in hawaii

good bereak for everyone - jane gets her camp and the wnba gets their guns

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Anonymous
Years ago

whats jans beef? cant she be excited for erin. She will be playing and training against the best players in the world.

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lisa
Years ago

if you ask me, Jan needs to speak to coach T about a thing or two. How could she not consider picking her now that she has decided to go over to Connecticut? Sounds like Jan has something personal against her. If you ask me, whatever it is, she needs to grow up and get over it.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Well it will certainly be interesting to see how Coach T uses erin in the pre-season and alot will depend on whether they can get another player to take Wycoff's minutes, and the other of course will be how fast and how well Whalen recovers.

There are two interesting points here. Coach T has said he way move whalen over to give her some more minutes, which would mean that Douglas may be moving over to cover Sales slot more now that Brooke is gone to the Sky.

The big point is that Coach T actually let Wycoff go and protected Erin against the expansion draft even though she has never played a minute for them. That is saying something about the Coach's belief in her ability and Coach T knows talent. Of course it may have been tough to hit the Salary cap with Brooke.

The Sun have been a very stable team personnel wise.

With Phillips a "protected" Sun that means that there won't be more than a couple of spots competed for with the Sun. One point guard spot, Wycoff's spot, and one post player spot.

Summerton will have to compete for her spot again this year. It may be that she is going to get a look at the Brooke's spot.

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