Newly acquired Nicole Ohlde will miss 3 to 5 weeks with a broken toe suffered in her final game in...

Newly acquired Nicole Ohlde will miss 3 to 5 weeks with a broken toe suffered in her final game in Hungary.

The injury will cause her to miss all of the Mercury's training camp and potentially the first 2 to 4 games of the season.

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over 2 years ago Seth Pollack 5 comments 0 recs |

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oh god

she played for my hometown team, and was one of the best players for us, we really missed her when she got injured! well, this took me by surprise

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by Murcy on May 19, 2009 5:30 AM MDT reply actions

however

I think it wasn’t the last game, it happened earlier. maybe the last game of the regular season

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by Murcy on May 19, 2009 5:31 AM MDT reply actions

Interesting

Do you know what happened? How the injury occurred? Also, how would you describe her play.

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by Seth Pollack on May 19, 2009 7:57 AM MDT up reply actions

she was one of the tallest players for the team, and along with Mazzante, they were a real and much-needed help. for the last 10 years, year in and year out, there were basically two great teams in Hungary and a bunch of very bad ones, and one of these is us, but as the financial situation is really bad, we can only afford to sing players for 1-year contracts (and they work very differently than in the NBA), so she has only been here since january…
She was a pretty good scorer and had very good shooting percentages as much as I can remember, and she scored our 2000. point this season. Defensively she was okay, but offense was more of a strength for sure

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by Murcy on May 19, 2009 10:44 AM MDT up reply actions

here are this season's stats

she arrived late in the regular season and she was injured… and in the playoffs, you only have to win 2 games to advance, so that’s why she played in only 17 games:
reg season:
games played: 9
mpg 24.9
ppg 16.4
fg% 72% (!!!!)
ft% 81% (pretty good)
rpg 8.1
spg 1.7
tpg 2.2
bpg 0.7

playoffs
games played: 8
mpg 28.0
ppg 15.0
fg% 57 %
ft% 62 % (what a dropoff)
rpg 7.5
spg 0.9
tpg 3.1
bpg 0.4

her stats were pretty much worse in the playoffs, but the competition was better as well. she was a very good player, I’m sure all fans from my city will miss her

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by Murcy on May 19, 2009 10:50 AM MDT reply actions