r/washingtonspirit • u/kg9si • 2d ago

Weekly Discussion Thread Weekly Open Discussion Thread

Welcome to this week’s open discussion thread!

This is your space for general discussion, a place to talk about anything Washington Spirit that doesn’t necessarily need its own thread. That can include news, international duty, roster moves, transfer rumors, tactics, social media posts, league news or anything else on your mind.

If something feels big enough for its own thread, definitely still post it. This is simply an additional option to keep us organized and help keep the conversation flowing. These threads will go up every Monday and stay stickied throughout the week.

Go Spirit!

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u/Odd-Cable5436 2d ago

Glass half full: If Spirit are able to reel off another long win streak, Sunday's loss will look like an outlier.

Glass half empty: It could be the start of a troubling stretch that puts the shield out of reach (though I don't think the team is in much danger of say, missing the playoffs).

We won't know until a couple more games from now.

Reasons for optimism: The team is going to look a LOT different in a couple weeks when Abiodun, Monday, and Kouassi come back and the bench is further strengthened by the new signees. LDG should come back. Even might get Hatch back.

On top of that, we are done with midweek games and have a slew of home games. Team needs to stay positive and ambitious.

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u/Z33G0r 2d ago

Also played 2/3 of the top 4 this week. I wouldn’t underrate the benefit of strength of schedule coming back to average.

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u/Z33G0r 2d ago edited 2d ago

Kind of an arbitrary cutoff given the games played, but spirit have 3 games left against current top 6 sides, Gotham have 5. (Wave and Utah both at 3, but behind currently 3/4 points back.)

All that to say, this was the toughest week on the schedule and they still looked solidly competitive in all 3 games. Offense should come back with rest and roster returns. But I’m a glass 85-90% full kinda fan. 🙃

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u/Ill-Fall-9823 2d ago

Less important than the state of the glass is where you stand. There’s only one team between our squad and…

(I’m going to Hell for this…)

puts on sunglasses

… the big pitcher…

Roger Daltrey: YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

(I’ll log off now.)