Skylar Diggins says Storm’s most talented squad from whom I was part.

Seattle-Department of the Seattle Storm, the all-star Jewell Loyd in the Las Vegas Aces in the off-season, said Storm Guard Skylar Diggins on Monday that this team in Seattle “definitely the most talented squad in my 13 years in the WNBA”.

This is a high bar, the Diggins, a six-time all-WNBA election, was previously part of two super teams when they changed teams in the free agency. In 2020, Diggins Legends Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner joined the Phoenix Mercury, which would use this potential by reaching the 2021 WNBA final.

Just last year, the storm improved by 14 wins to 25-15 after Diggins and the former MVP Nneka Ogwumike to Loyd were admitted in the free agency in the lottery. However, Seattle was swept by the defending Champion Aces in the opening round of the playoffs. Loyd then applied for a trade after an external examination did not find any violations of the guidelines at the workplace by the coaching staff of the storm. Alexa Philippou von ESPN confirmed that the complaint was made for harassment and bullying by Seattle’s Loyd coaches.

The three-team trade Seattle hit in January and sent Loyd to Las Vegas with number 2, with which the storm took up promising 19-year-old French center Dominique Malonga at the beginning of this month, but they did not sign a replacement for Loyd on the back place. Instead, Seattle will fill out 19.7 ppg last season last season last season.

“I think that is what we built this year so great that maybe everyone can go out every night,” said Gabby Williams, who again signed with Seattle after the mission as a core player. “It’s not about just relying on one or two players to score. It’s about how we all play together and how we all over our roles.”

Williams, who had an average of 17.0 ppg in two playoff games, when Loyd came back from a knee injury late in the regular season, is an important part of this equation. For the first time since 2022, she is with the storm for the training camp. Williams has reorganized himself in Seattle in the last two years after recovering from a severe concussion in 2023 and won a silver medal with France at the Olympic Games of last summer.

Another important player is the experienced veteran Alysha Clark, the first -class addition to the storm in the free agency. Clark, who won both 2018 and 2020 titles in her first assignment in Seattle, was also part of the 2023 Aces team that won the championship. Clark, who only scored double goal in her WNBA career, said that her role on the offensive could be bigger this time.

“Not that I have to go out and achieve 20 points,” said Clark, “but they want me to be aggressive and look to score.

The storm can also expect more production of diggins that improved their game after the Olympic break. Diggins returned from the birth of her second child in 2023 and reached an average of 13.1 ppg at 39% before the WNBA took a month so that the players could take part in the Olympic Games in Paris. In the last 15 games of the regular season, Diggins scored all 40 games played-with 48% shooting at 18.5 ppg.

Diggins has a strong run in the unsurpassed 3-against-3 league, which plays with Lunar Owls, which were 13-1 in the regular season. Diggins took the top 10 from Uncrivesed with a value of 17.9 ppg.

“I had a great time with unsurpassed things,” said Diggins. “I think it really prepared me to get out, especially last season. I can’t say enough that I came out of maternity leave and had a big gap between the games. When I went into the season and the opportunity arose, nobody really knew what it really was.

“When I saw the caliber of the players who would take part, I knew that I could prepare for this camp.

With the arrival of the 6-foot 6-Malonga and the return of Clark, which took second place in the defensive player of the year in 2020, Diggins is also pleased with the defense potential of the storm. Seattle was fourth in the defensive rating last season, just behind the two teams that hit the WNBA final (Minnesota Lynx and Champion New York Liberty), and Diggins wants to improve this.

“Hopefully we will be two top two in defense,” she said. “I’m looking forward to that.”

Storm trainer Noelle Quinn decided to change her usual game book and not to score goals for the team during her meeting before the season. Instead, Quinn left this film empty and asked the players to fill them for them.

“I allowed them to look at each other, to look at the group, to spend a few days together at the Court of Justice and to determine what they can achieve this year,” said Quinn. “You have not returned to me. It was like a task. You are really intended what your expectations can be.”

Clark, who knows what a WNBA title wins, believes that Seattle has the necessary players.

“I think we have enough talent on this squad to win a championship,” she said, “but there are so many new pieces that you have to find this chemistry and jell. We’ll take it one day after the other, but that’s definitely on my radar. I want to win as much as possible.”