Lots of quotes from Taurasi:
A game with Pondexter all but guaranteed a chance to see something sublime. She never stopped attacking, probing defenses for pathways to the basket that nobody else could see, much less exploit the way she did.
In the waning moments of the 2009 W.N.B.A. finals, with Tamika Catchings and the Indiana Fever on the ropes, Pondexter saw a gap between her defender and the two other bigs who came to help. She rose and released her shot in that sliver of space.
Two minutes later, Pondexter and the Phoenix Mercury were champions. Again.
“At her peak, she was the most unstoppable player in the league,” Diana Taurasi, who was part of that championship team, said in a phone interview. “And it’s hard to do that at 5’8” with such an athletic big league, and Cappie, when she was on the court, Cappie could have been 6’4.” That’s how big her game was. That’s how much impact she had on games.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/sports/basketball/cappie-pondexter-wnba-retired.html
A game with Pondexter all but guaranteed a chance to see something sublime. She never stopped attacking, probing defenses for pathways to the basket that nobody else could see, much less exploit the way she did.
In the waning moments of the 2009 W.N.B.A. finals, with Tamika Catchings and the Indiana Fever on the ropes, Pondexter saw a gap between her defender and the two other bigs who came to help. She rose and released her shot in that sliver of space.
Two minutes later, Pondexter and the Phoenix Mercury were champions. Again.
“At her peak, she was the most unstoppable player in the league,” Diana Taurasi, who was part of that championship team, said in a phone interview. “And it’s hard to do that at 5’8” with such an athletic big league, and Cappie, when she was on the court, Cappie could have been 6’4.” That’s how big her game was. That’s how much impact she had on games.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/sports/basketball/cappie-pondexter-wnba-retired.html
